Sovereign AI, on your infrastructure.
Open WebUI is the self-hosted interface for organizations that need private AI usage, controlled model access, and governed workflows without moving the operating layer outside their boundary.
“Sovereignty is not isolation. It is knowing exactly where your data sits, which models it reaches, and whose hands hold the keys. Nothing leaves your ground unless you send it there. You decide, no one else.”
Sovereign AI is control across the whole workflow.
Run AI services on-premises, in a private cloud, or fully air-gapped, wherever your security, network, and deployment rules apply. Docker, Kubernetes, or the process you already trust.
Know where prompts, uploads, retrieval results, and logs are stored. In a local deployment without external providers, data residency can be kept inside your boundary unless you route data elsewhere.
Keep identity, access, retention, audit, and administration with your teams, so GDPR and EU AI Act work can be reviewed against systems you operate.
The hard part is not only where the model runs.
A usable place to chat, upload files, search knowledge, call tools, and share work.
SSO, groups, model access, retention, audit trails, and administrator review.
If those needs are split across unmanaged tools, the AI program becomes difficult to govern no matter how carefully the backend is deployed.
Open WebUI gives teams one governed place to use AI.
Deploy it where you operate. Connect the models, knowledge, and tools you approve. Keep chat, files, permissions, and administration in one self-hosted workspace.
Run with Docker, Kubernetes, or your existing deployment process.
Use local models, private endpoints, or approved hosted providers.
Manage access, knowledge, tools, and review around the workspace people use.
Deploy it where you operate.
One command. 60 seconds. No account required. Run it with Docker, Kubernetes, or your existing deployment process.
Contact enterprise salesSovereign AI, answered.
- What is a sovereign AI platform?
- A sovereign AI platform lets you use AI while keeping control of what matters for governance: the infrastructure it runs on, the data flowing through it, which models it calls, who can use it, and how it is audited. Open WebUI is the self-hosted workspace layer of that stack. You deploy it inside your own boundary and keep those decisions in-house rather than with a vendor you cannot inspect.
- Data sovereignty vs data residency vs digital sovereignty?
- Data residency is location: which country or region your data physically sits in. Data sovereignty is broader: your data is governed through the jurisdiction, contracts, controls, and operating model you choose. Digital sovereignty covers the whole stack (software, models, identity, operations) so a critical capability is not dependent on an outside provider. A hosted service can give you residency while keeping key operational decisions with the provider. Self-hosting Open WebUI gives your organization more direct control over those layers.
- Can Open WebUI run on-premises or air-gapped?
- Yes. It is built to be self-hosted and can run on-premises, in a private cloud, or in an air-gapped network when configured for offline operation. Paired with a local engine like Ollama or vLLM and no external providers, prompts, files, retrieval, and model calls can remain inside the disconnected environment. This is the pattern used by defense, healthcare, finance, and public-sector teams that cannot send data to external APIs.
- How does Open WebUI fit GDPR and EU AI Act programs?
- Open WebUI gives you technical controls; compliance is a property of your whole deployment. Because you self-host, your organization decides where personal data lives (data residency in the EU or any region), who accesses it via SSO and role-based access control, and how long it is retained. That operational control, plus audit trails and human oversight kept inside your environment, can make GDPR and EU AI Act obligations more practical to satisfy. The legal classification of your use case stays your responsibility.
- Where is my data stored, and does anything leave my environment?
- Open WebUI-managed chats, files, knowledge bases, embeddings, users, permissions, and logs are stored in the database and storage you configure. Data is not sent to Open WebUI as a managed service. It is routed to external systems only when you configure an external provider, tool, model endpoint, or integration. If you connect only local models and operate without external integrations, prompts can remain inside your network boundary.
- Which models can I use, and can I avoid US hosted providers?
- You choose. Open WebUI connects to local open-weight models (Ollama, vLLM, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint), private in-region endpoints, and approved hosted providers, in any combination. To avoid specific vendors or jurisdictions, configure only local or in-region models and do not add external model providers, with no lock-in as the open-weight landscape changes.