Enterprise search and knowledge management, beyond chat

Onyx goes beyond chat. It searches across Slack, Google Drive, Confluence, and 40+ tools with real permission controls and continuous indexing. Your team gets AI that actually knows your company's knowledge.

Feature

Onyx

Open WebUI

Integrated Company Knowledge

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40+ indexed enterprise connectors

File upload only

Permission syncing from source systems

Yes

No

Self-hosted & open-source

Yes

Yes

Model-agnostic (any LLM)

Yes

Yes

Custom agents with actions (MCP/OpenAPI)

Yes

Basic tools via Pipelines

Pricing Comparison

Onyx

$20/user/month

Open WebUI

Free (MIT)

14-day free trial. No credit card required. No minimum seats. No minimum contract.

Free to self-host. Enterprise license available for white-labeling and support.

Detailed Comparison

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Onyx

Onyx is an enterprise AI platform with purpose-built search. 40+ connectors continuously crawl Slack, Google Drive, Confluence, Jira, GitHub, Salesforce, and more. Documents are indexed, chunked, and embedded with hybrid search (semantic + keyword) and LLM-based knowledge graphs. When someone asks a question, Onyx searches across all connected sources and returns grounded, cited answers.

Open WebUI

Open WebUI is primarily a chat interface. RAG is available but limited to manually uploaded files; there's no automated crawling or indexing of enterprise data sources. You can browse Google Drive or OneDrive via file pickers, but this is manual import, not sync. There are no native connectors for Slack, Confluence, Jira, or other enterprise tools. If you want to search your company's knowledge, you'd need to manually export and upload documents.

Which is Right for You?

Onyx is best for

  • Teams that need AI answers grounded in company data across multiple tools

  • Organizations requiring permission-aware search (different users see different data)

  • Companies scaling beyond file-upload RAG to automated enterprise knowledge management

  • Teams that want both enterprise search and chat in one platform

Open WebUI is best for

  • Individual developers wanting the best self-hosted ChatGPT alternative

  • Small teams running local LLMs via Ollama who need a polished UI

  • Privacy-focused users who want AI chat with zero external dependencies

  • Teams that primarily need a multi-model chat interface, not enterprise search

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