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I've been using openwebui and am pretty happy with it. Why do you like lm studio more?
by prettyblocks 1y ago
I've been using openwebui and am pretty happy with it. Why do you like lm studio more?
- truemotive 1y agoOpen WebUI can leverage the built in web server in LM Studio, just FYI in case you thought it was primarily a chat interface.
- prophesi 1y agoNot OP, but with LM Studio I get a chat interface out-of-the-box for local models, while with openwebui I'd need to configure it to point to an OpenAI API-compatible server (like LM Studio). It can also help determine which models will work well with your hardware. LM Studio isn't FOSS though. I did enjoy hooking up OpenWebUI to Firefox's experimental AI Chatbot. (browser.ml.chat.hideLocalhost to false, browser.ml.chat.provider to localhost:${openwebui-port})
- s1mplicissimus 1y agoi recently tried openwebui but it was so painful to get it to run with local model. that "first run experience" of lm studio is pretty fire in comparison. can't really talk about actually working with it though, still waiting for the 8GB download
- prettyblocks 1y agoInteresting. I run my local llms through ollama and it's zero trouble to get that working in openwebui as long as the ollama server is running.
- diggan 1y agoI think that's the thing. Compared to LM Studio, just running Ollama (fiddling around with terminals) is more complicated than the full E2E of chatting with LM Studio. Of course, for folks used to terminals, daemons and so on it makes sense from the get go, but for others it seemingly doesn't, and it doesn't help that Ollama refuses to communicate what people should understand before trying to use it.