Self-Hosted AI Search Engine: No Vendor Lock-In, No Per-User Fees
Build a private research platform that combines web search with your choice of AI models. Process Google results through Mistral, Claude, Llama, or anything else you want. Keep your search history and insights in GDPR-compliant German data centers. Deploy on Opsily in 3 minutes.
A self-hosted interface for research and search
Open WebUI is not a search engine like Perplexity. It is a self-hosted interface that connects your choice of AI models to integrated web search capabilities.
What this means: You send a research query. Open WebUI grabs results from Google, Brave, Kagi, or SearXNG. It passes those results to your AI model (Claude, Mistral, Ollama, whatever you pick). The model synthesizes an answer. Your search history stays on your servers, in German data centers if you use Opsily.
What you get with Open WebUI:
- Multi-model AI chat: Bring your own OpenAI-compatible API, or run Ollama locally
- Web search integration: Choose from 20+ providers (Google, Brave, Kagi, SearXNG, DuckDuckGo, Bing, Tavily, Perplexity API, and more)
- RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation): Index your own documents, PDFs, and files. Search finds them alongside web results
- Team collaboration: Unlimited users, role-based access control, shared chat history, audit logs
- Offline capable: Use local models only and run fully disconnected
- Zero vendor lock-in: Open source. Your data stays yours
Unlike Perplexity, you control everything: the model, the search provider, the infrastructure, the backups. You pay one flat fee per month, not per user.
Why Opsily for Open WebUI
Build your self-hosted AI search engine without infrastructure headaches. We handle deployment, scaling, backups, and security so you focus on research.
Self-Hosted AI Search Engine: GDPR-Compliant
Your research data lives in ISO 27001-certified German data centers. Unlike Perplexity, which processes everything on US servers, Opsily keeps your search queries and insights in the EU. No privacy risk, no regulatory gray area, no data transfer compliance nightmare.
Flat Pricing for Your Entire Team
Perplexity charges $20+ per person per month. A 10-person team costs $200+ monthly. Opsily costs $30 flat for unlimited team members. That saves your team $1,800 per year and scales infinitely as you grow.
Deploy in 3 Minutes, Zero DevOps
No Kubernetes. No containerization headaches. No infrastructure meetings. Click Deploy, configure your AI models and search providers, invite your team, and start searching. We handle all the infrastructure, security patches, backups, and monitoring.
Built for teams who need reliability
How to Build Your AI Search Engine
Deploy and start researching in under 5 minutes.
Click Deploy in the Opsily dashboard. Select Open WebUI. Choose a plan. Your managed instance launches on German servers.
Connect your AI model (OpenAI API key, Anthropic, Mistral, or run Ollama locally). Choose your web search provider (Google, Brave, Kagi, SearXNG). Enable RAG if you want to index documents.
Add team members by email. Assign roles (Admin, Editor, Viewer). Set up SSO if you use Okta or LDAP. Team members log in immediately.
Click Deploy in the Opsily dashboard. Select Open WebUI. Choose a plan. Your managed instance launches on German servers.
Connect your AI model (OpenAI API key, Anthropic, Mistral, or run Ollama locally). Choose your web search provider (Google, Brave, Kagi, SearXNG). Enable RAG if you want to index documents.
Add team members by email. Assign roles (Admin, Editor, Viewer). Set up SSO if you use Okta or LDAP. Team members log in immediately.
Deploy Your Instance
Click Deploy in the Opsily dashboard. Select Open WebUI. Choose a plan. Your managed instance launches on German servers.
Configure AI & Search
Connect your AI model (OpenAI API key, Anthropic, Mistral, or run Ollama locally). Choose your web search provider (Google, Brave, Kagi, SearXNG). Enable RAG if you want to index documents.
Invite Your Team
Add team members by email. Assign roles (Admin, Editor, Viewer). Set up SSO if you use Okta or LDAP. Team members log in immediately.
Start Searching and Researching
Run a query. Open WebUI fetches web results in real time, passes them to your AI, and returns a synthesized answer. Upload documents for RAG. Share findings with your team via chat channels.
Why Teams Switch from Perplexity to Opsily
Perplexity pricing as of October 2026. Opsily pricing in EUR. €1 = ~$1.09 USD.
Simple, Transparent Pricing
One flat monthly fee. Includes EU hosting, daily backups, SSL, team collaboration, and 24/7 support. No per-user charges. No surprise bills.
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Enterprise Security & Compliance
Your research data deserves protection. Here is what we provide.
GDPR Compliant
Your search queries and research data stay in EU-compliant German data centers. No transfers to the US. No Schrems II violations.
Enterprise Security Infrastructure
Your servers are backed by German data centers with industry-standard encryption, access controls, and audit trails.
Open Source Foundation
Open WebUI is fully open source (Apache 2.0 license). No vendor lock-in. Audit the code. Run it yourself if you want.
Daily Encrypted Backups
Every instance gets nightly encrypted backups. Recovery in minutes. Your data is never at risk.
Frequently Asked Questions
Got questions? We have answers.
Perplexity is a closed-source search engine that charges per user and processes all data on US servers. Open WebUI is an open-source interface that YOU control: choose your AI model, choose your search provider, run it on your own infrastructure (or Opsily's managed hosting). With Opsily, your data stays in German data centers. It costs $30 flat for your entire team, not $20+ per person. You own everything.
Stop Paying Per-User Fees for Search
Open WebUI on Opsily costs $30 flat per month for your entire team. Perplexity costs $20+ per person. One flat fee beats per-user pricing every time.