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Open WebUI custom API setup

Connect Open WebUI to CallAI OpenAI-compatible endpoints for Claude 3.7, DeepSeek R1, and GPT-4o.

📋 Open WebUI config cheatsheetProduction-ready
OpenAI API URL
https://api.callaiapi.com/v1
OpenAI API Key
sk-live-your-callai-key

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Step-by-step setup

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Admin → Connections

Enable OpenAI API, set URL to https://api.callaiapi.com/v1, paste key.

Troubleshooting

❌ Symptom:Docker cannot resolve DNS
💡 Fix: Fix host DNS or set dns: [8.8.8.8, 1.1.1.1] in compose.
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