Deploy and Host Open WebUI with Pipelines on Railway

Open WebUI with Pipelines provides a powerful, self-hosted interface for interacting with large language models. It combines a responsive web interface with modular, customizable workflows that support OpenAI API specs, enabling versatile AI interactions with complete privacy and control.

About Hosting Open WebUI with Pipelines

Hosting Open WebUI with Pipelines gives you a centralized platform to manage different models, customize their behavior, and expose them through a clean web interface. The Pipelines framework adds modular workflows with custom logic and Python libraries, enabling advanced features like function calling, rate limiting, usage monitoring, live translation, and toxic message filtering. With Docker deployment support and role-based access control, you can create a scalable AI gateway tailored to your specific needs while maintaining complete data privacy.

Common Use Cases

Local AI Development: Provides a user-friendly interface for developers to test and interact with locally run LLMs via Ollama for rapid prototyping and experimentation
Internal Business Tools: Deploy as a secure, internal alternative to public AI chat services for employees to use for content generation, code assistance, and data analysis
Custom AI Assistants: Use the Model Builder and Pipelines to create specialized AI agents with custom workflows for specific functions or departments
Research and Experimentation: Leverage RAG capabilities, multi-model conversations, and custom pipelines to conduct experiments and explore AI model functionalities

Dependencies for Open WebUI with Pipelines Hosting

Open WebUI Pipelines: Modular framework for custom workflows and Python library integration
Ollama (Optional, but recommended): For running large language models locally

Deployment Dependencies

Why Deploy Open WebUI with Pipelines on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Open WebUI with Pipelines on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.