Since we are on HN here, I can highly recommend open-webui with some OpenAI-compatible provider. I'm running with Deep Infra for more than a year now and am very happy. New models are usually available within one or two days after release. Also have some friends who use the service almost daily.
I too run openweb-ui locally and use deepinfra.com as my backend. It has been working very well, and I am quite happy with deepinfra's pricing and privacy policy.
I have set up the same thing at work for my colleagues, and they find it better than openai for their tasks.
Yeah, openweb-ui is the best frontend for API queries. Everything seems to work well.
I've tried LibreChat before, but the app is terrible at generating titles for chats instead of leaving it as "New Chat". Also it lacks a working Code Interpreter.
... or a TailScale network. I've been leaving open-webui running on my laptop on my desk and then going out into the word and accessing it from my phone via TailScale, works great.
Yeah OpenWebUI is great with local models too. I love it. You can even do a combo, send the same prompt to local and cloud and even various providers and compare the results.
It has a module system so maybe it can but it seems more people are using Aider or Continue for that. There's a bit of stitching things together regardless of whether you show your project to some SaaS or run local models but if you can manage a Linux system it'll be easy.
Personally I heavily dislike the experience though, so I might not be the best one to answer.
