---
title: text-generation-webui
app_file: server.py
sdk: gradio
sdk_version: 3.33.1
---
# Text generation web UI

A Gradio web UI for Large Language Models.

Its goal is to become the [AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui](https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui) of text generation.

|![Image1](https://github.com/oobabooga/screenshots/raw/main/print_instruct.png) | ![Image2](https://github.com/oobabooga/screenshots/raw/main/print_chat.png) |
|:---:|:---:|
|![Image1](https://github.com/oobabooga/screenshots/raw/main/print_default.png) | ![Image2](https://github.com/oobabooga/screenshots/raw/main/print_parameters.png) |

## Features

* 3 interface modes: default (two columns), notebook, and chat
* Multiple model backends: [transformers](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers), [llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp), [ExLlama](https://github.com/turboderp/exllama), [AutoGPTQ](https://github.com/PanQiWei/AutoGPTQ), [GPTQ-for-LLaMa](https://github.com/qwopqwop200/GPTQ-for-LLaMa), [ctransformers](https://github.com/marella/ctransformers)
* Dropdown menu for quickly switching between different models
* LoRA: load and unload LoRAs on the fly, train a new LoRA using QLoRA
* Precise instruction templates for chat mode, including Llama-2-chat, Alpaca, Vicuna, WizardLM, StableLM, and many others
* 4-bit, 8-bit, and CPU inference through the transformers library
* Use llama.cpp models with transformers samplers (`llamacpp_HF` loader)
* [Multimodal pipelines, including LLaVA and MiniGPT-4](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/tree/main/extensions/multimodal)
* [Extensions framework](docs/Extensions.md)
* [Custom chat characters](docs/Chat-mode.md)
* Very efficient text streaming
* Markdown output with LaTeX rendering, to use for instance with [GALACTICA](https://github.com/paperswithcode/galai)
* API, including endpoints for websocket streaming ([see the examples](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main/api-examples))

To learn how to use the various features, check out the Documentation: https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/tree/main/docs

## Installation

### One-click installers

| Windows | Linux | macOS | WSL |
|--------|--------|--------|--------|
| [oobabooga-windows.zip](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/releases/download/installers/oobabooga_windows.zip) | [oobabooga-linux.zip](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/releases/download/installers/oobabooga_linux.zip) |[oobabooga-macos.zip](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/releases/download/installers/oobabooga_macos.zip) | [oobabooga-wsl.zip](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/releases/download/installers/oobabooga_wsl.zip) |

Just download the zip above, extract it, and double-click on "start". The web UI and all its dependencies will be installed in the same folder.

* The source codes and more information can be found here: https://github.com/oobabooga/one-click-installers
* There is no need to run the installers as admin.
* Huge thanks to [@jllllll](https://github.com/jllllll), [@ClayShoaf](https://github.com/ClayShoaf), and [@xNul](https://github.com/xNul) for their contributions to these installers.

### Manual installation using Conda

Recommended if you have some experience with the command-line.

#### 0. Install Conda

https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html

On Linux or WSL, it can be automatically installed with these two commands ([source](https://educe-ubc.github.io/conda.html)):

```
curl -sL "https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh" > "Miniconda3.sh"
bash Miniconda3.sh
```

#### 1. Create a new conda environment

```
conda create -n textgen python=3.10.9
conda activate textgen
```

#### 2. Install Pytorch

| System | GPU | Command |
|--------|---------|---------|
| Linux/WSL | NVIDIA | `pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio` |
| Linux/WSL | CPU only | `pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu` |
| Linux | AMD | `pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm5.4.2` |
| MacOS + MPS | Any | `pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio` |
| Windows | NVIDIA | `pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu117` |
| Windows | CPU only | `pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio` |

The up-to-date commands can be found here: https://pytorch.org/get-started/locally/. 

#### 3. Install the web UI

```
git clone https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui
cd text-generation-webui
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

#### AMD, Metal, Intel Arc, and CPUs without AVCX2

1) Replace the last command above with

```
pip install -r requirements_nocuda.txt
```

2) Manually install llama-cpp-python using the appropriate command for your hardware: [Installation from PyPI](https://github.com/abetlen/llama-cpp-python#installation-from-pypi).

3) AMD: Manually install AutoGPTQ: [Installation](https://github.com/PanQiWei/AutoGPTQ#installation).

4) AMD: Manually install [ExLlama](https://github.com/turboderp/exllama) by simply cloning it into the `repositories` folder (it will be automatically compiled at runtime after that):

```
cd text-generation-webui
mkdir repositories
cd repositories
git clone https://github.com/turboderp/exllama
```

#### bitsandbytes on older NVIDIA GPUs

bitsandbytes >= 0.39 may not work. In that case, to use `--load-in-8bit`, you may have to downgrade like this:

* Linux: `pip install bitsandbytes==0.38.1`
* Windows: `pip install https://github.com/jllllll/bitsandbytes-windows-webui/raw/main/bitsandbytes-0.38.1-py3-none-any.whl`

### Alternative: Docker

```
ln -s docker/{Dockerfile,docker-compose.yml,.dockerignore} .
cp docker/.env.example .env
# Edit .env and set TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST based on your GPU model
docker compose up --build
```

* You need to have docker compose v2.17 or higher installed. See [this guide](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/blob/main/docs/Docker.md) for instructions.
* For additional docker files, check out [this repository](https://github.com/Atinoda/text-generation-webui-docker).

### Updating the requirements

From time to time, the `requirements.txt` changes. To update, use these commands:

```
conda activate textgen
cd text-generation-webui
pip install -r requirements.txt --upgrade
```

## Downloading models

Models should be placed in the `text-generation-webui/models` folder. They are usually downloaded from [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/models?pipeline_tag=text-generation&sort=downloads).

* Transformers or GPTQ models are made of several files and must be placed in a subfolder. Example:

```
text-generation-webui
├── models
│   ├── lmsys_vicuna-33b-v1.3
│   │   ├── config.json
│   │   ├── generation_config.json
│   │   ├── pytorch_model-00001-of-00007.bin
│   │   ├── pytorch_model-00002-of-00007.bin
│   │   ├── pytorch_model-00003-of-00007.bin
│   │   ├── pytorch_model-00004-of-00007.bin
│   │   ├── pytorch_model-00005-of-00007.bin
│   │   ├── pytorch_model-00006-of-00007.bin
│   │   ├── pytorch_model-00007-of-00007.bin
│   │   ├── pytorch_model.bin.index.json
│   │   ├── special_tokens_map.json
│   │   ├── tokenizer_config.json
│   │   └── tokenizer.model
```

* GGML/GGUF models are a single file and should be placed directly into `models`. Example:

```
text-generation-webui
├── models
│   ├── llama-13b.ggmlv3.q4_K_M.bin
```

In both cases, you can use the "Model" tab of the UI to download the model from Hugging Face automatically. It is also possible to download via the command-line with `python download-model.py organization/model` (use `--help` to see all the options).

#### GPT-4chan

<details>
<summary>
Instructions
</summary>

[GPT-4chan](https://huggingface.co/ykilcher/gpt-4chan) has been shut down from Hugging Face, so you need to download it elsewhere. You have two options:

* Torrent: [16-bit](https://archive.org/details/gpt4chan_model_float16) / [32-bit](https://archive.org/details/gpt4chan_model)
* Direct download: [16-bit](https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/_notpdf_/gpt4chan_model_float16/) / [32-bit](https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/_notpdf_/gpt4chan_model/)

The 32-bit version is only relevant if you intend to run the model in CPU mode. Otherwise, you should use the 16-bit version.

After downloading the model, follow these steps:

1. Place the files under `models/gpt4chan_model_float16` or `models/gpt4chan_model`.
2. Place GPT-J 6B's config.json file in that same folder: [config.json](https://huggingface.co/EleutherAI/gpt-j-6B/raw/main/config.json).
3. Download GPT-J 6B's tokenizer files (they will be automatically detected when you attempt to load GPT-4chan):

```
python download-model.py EleutherAI/gpt-j-6B --text-only
```

When you load this model in default or notebook modes, the "HTML" tab will show the generated text in 4chan format:

![Image3](https://github.com/oobabooga/screenshots/raw/main/gpt4chan.png)

</details>

## Starting the web UI

    conda activate textgen
    cd text-generation-webui
    python server.py

Then browse to 

`http://localhost:7860/?__theme=dark`

Optionally, you can use the following command-line flags:

#### Basic settings

| Flag                                       | Description |
|--------------------------------------------|-------------|
| `-h`, `--help`                             | Show this help message and exit. |
| `--multi-user`                             | Multi-user mode. Chat histories are not saved or automatically loaded. WARNING: this is highly experimental. |
| `--character CHARACTER`                    | The name of the character to load in chat mode by default. |
| `--model MODEL`                            | Name of the model to load by default. |
| `--lora LORA [LORA ...]`                   | The list of LoRAs to load. If you want to load more than one LoRA, write the names separated by spaces. |
| `--model-dir MODEL_DIR`                    | Path to directory with all the models. |
| `--lora-dir LORA_DIR`                      | Path to directory with all the loras. |
| `--model-menu`                             | Show a model menu in the terminal when the web UI is first launched. |
| `--settings SETTINGS_FILE`                 | Load the default interface settings from this yaml file. See `settings-template.yaml` for an example. If you create a file called `settings.yaml`, this file will be loaded by default without the need to use the `--settings` flag. |
| `--extensions EXTENSIONS [EXTENSIONS ...]` | The list of extensions to load. If you want to load more than one extension, write the names separated by spaces. |
| `--verbose`                                | Print the prompts to the terminal. |

#### Model loader

| Flag                                       | Description |
|--------------------------------------------|-------------|
| `--loader LOADER`                          | Choose the model loader manually, otherwise, it will get autodetected. Valid options: transformers, autogptq, gptq-for-llama, exllama, exllama_hf, llamacpp, rwkv, ctransformers |

#### Accelerate/transformers

| Flag                                        | Description |
|---------------------------------------------|-------------|
| `--cpu`                                     | Use the CPU to generate text. Warning: Training on CPU is extremely slow.|
| `--auto-devices`                            | Automatically split the model across the available GPU(s) and CPU. |
|  `--gpu-memory GPU_MEMORY [GPU_MEMORY ...]` | Maximum GPU memory in GiB to be allocated per GPU. Example: `--gpu-memory 10` for a single GPU, `--gpu-memory 10 5` for two GPUs. You can also set values in MiB like `--gpu-memory 3500MiB`. |
| `--cpu-memory CPU_MEMORY`                   | Maximum CPU memory in GiB to allocate for offloaded weights. Same as above.|
| `--disk`                                    | If the model is too large for your GPU(s) and CPU combined, send the remaining layers to the disk. |
| `--disk-cache-dir DISK_CACHE_DIR`           | Directory to save the disk cache to. Defaults to `cache/`. |
| `--load-in-8bit`                            | Load the model with 8-bit precision (using bitsandbytes).|
| `--bf16`                                    | Load the model with bfloat16 precision. Requires NVIDIA Ampere GPU. |
| `--no-cache`                                | Set `use_cache` to False while generating text. This reduces the VRAM usage a bit with a performance cost. |
| `--xformers`                                | Use xformer's memory efficient attention. This should increase your tokens/s. |
| `--sdp-attention`                           | Use torch 2.0's sdp attention. |
| `--trust-remote-code`                       | Set trust_remote_code=True while loading a model. Necessary for ChatGLM and Falcon. |

#### Accelerate 4-bit

⚠️ Requires minimum compute of 7.0 on Windows at the moment.

| Flag                                        | Description |
|---------------------------------------------|-------------|
| `--load-in-4bit`                            | Load the model with 4-bit precision (using bitsandbytes). |
| `--compute_dtype COMPUTE_DTYPE`             | compute dtype for 4-bit. Valid options: bfloat16, float16, float32. |
| `--quant_type QUANT_TYPE`                   | quant_type for 4-bit. Valid options: nf4, fp4. |
| `--use_double_quant`                        | use_double_quant for 4-bit. |

#### GGML/GGUF (for llama.cpp and ctransformers)

| Flag        | Description |
|-------------|-------------|
| `--threads` | Number of threads to use. |
| `--n_batch` | Maximum number of prompt tokens to batch together when calling llama_eval. |
| `--n-gpu-layers N_GPU_LAYERS` | Number of layers to offload to the GPU. Only works if llama-cpp-python was compiled with BLAS. Set this to 1000000000 to offload all layers to the GPU. |
| `--n_ctx N_CTX` | Size of the prompt context. |

#### llama.cpp

| Flag          | Description |
|---------------|---------------|
| `--no-mmap`   | Prevent mmap from being used. |
| `--mlock`     | Force the system to keep the model in RAM. |
| `--mul_mat_q` | Activate new mulmat kernels. |
| `--cache-capacity CACHE_CAPACITY`   | Maximum cache capacity. Examples: 2000MiB, 2GiB. When provided without units, bytes will be assumed. |
| `--tensor_split TENSOR_SPLIT`  | Split the model across multiple GPUs, comma-separated list of proportions, e.g. 18,17 |
| `--llama_cpp_seed SEED`        | Seed for llama-cpp models. Default 0 (random). |
| `--n_gqa N_GQA`                | GGML only (not used by GGUF): Grouped-Query Attention. Must be 8 for llama-2 70b. |
| `--rms_norm_eps RMS_NORM_EPS`  | GGML only (not used by GGUF): 5e-6 is a good value for llama-2 models. |
| `--cpu`                        | Use the CPU version of llama-cpp-python instead of the GPU-accelerated version. |
|`--cfg-cache`                   | llamacpp_HF: Create an additional cache for CFG negative prompts. |

#### ctransformers

| Flag        | Description |
|-------------|-------------|
| `--model_type MODEL_TYPE` | Model type of pre-quantized model. Currently gpt2, gptj, gptneox, falcon, llama, mpt, starcoder (gptbigcode), dollyv2, and replit are supported. |

#### AutoGPTQ

| Flag             | Description |
|------------------|-------------|
| `--triton`                     | Use triton. |
| `--no_inject_fused_attention`  | Disable the use of fused attention, which will use less VRAM at the cost of slower inference. |
| `--no_inject_fused_mlp`        | Triton mode only: disable the use of fused MLP, which will use less VRAM at the cost of slower inference. |
| `--no_use_cuda_fp16`           | This can make models faster on some systems. |
| `--desc_act`                   | For models that don't have a quantize_config.json, this parameter is used to define whether to set desc_act or not in BaseQuantizeConfig. |
| `--disable_exllama`            | Disable ExLlama kernel, which can improve inference speed on some systems. |

#### ExLlama

| Flag             | Description |
|------------------|-------------|
|`--gpu-split`     | Comma-separated list of VRAM (in GB) to use per GPU device for model layers, e.g. `20,7,7` |
|`--max_seq_len MAX_SEQ_LEN`           | Maximum sequence length. |
|`--cfg-cache`                         | ExLlama_HF: Create an additional cache for CFG negative prompts. Necessary to use CFG with that loader, but not necessary for CFG with base ExLlama. |

#### GPTQ-for-LLaMa

| Flag                      | Description |
|---------------------------|-------------|
| `--wbits WBITS`           | Load a pre-quantized model with specified precision in bits. 2, 3, 4 and 8 are supported. |
| `--model_type MODEL_TYPE` | Model type of pre-quantized model. Currently LLaMA, OPT, and GPT-J are supported. |
| `--groupsize GROUPSIZE`   | Group size. |
| `--pre_layer PRE_LAYER [PRE_LAYER ...]`  | The number of layers to allocate to the GPU. Setting this parameter enables CPU offloading for 4-bit models. For multi-gpu, write the numbers separated by spaces, eg `--pre_layer 30 60`. |
| `--checkpoint CHECKPOINT` | The path to the quantized checkpoint file. If not specified, it will be automatically detected. |
| `--monkey-patch`          | Apply the monkey patch for using LoRAs with quantized models.

#### DeepSpeed

| Flag                                  | Description |
|---------------------------------------|-------------|
| `--deepspeed`                         | Enable the use of DeepSpeed ZeRO-3 for inference via the Transformers integration. |
| `--nvme-offload-dir NVME_OFFLOAD_DIR` | DeepSpeed: Directory to use for ZeRO-3 NVME offloading. |
| `--local_rank LOCAL_RANK`             | DeepSpeed: Optional argument for distributed setups. |

#### RWKV

| Flag                            | Description |
|---------------------------------|-------------|
| `--rwkv-strategy RWKV_STRATEGY` | RWKV: The strategy to use while loading the model. Examples: "cpu fp32", "cuda fp16", "cuda fp16i8". |
| `--rwkv-cuda-on`                | RWKV: Compile the CUDA kernel for better performance. |

#### RoPE (for llama.cpp, ExLlama, and transformers)

| Flag             | Description |
|------------------|-------------|
| `--alpha_value ALPHA_VALUE`           | Positional embeddings alpha factor for NTK RoPE scaling. Use either this or compress_pos_emb, not both. |
| `--rope_freq_base ROPE_FREQ_BASE`     | If greater than 0, will be used instead of alpha_value. Those two are related by rope_freq_base = 10000 * alpha_value ^ (64 / 63). |
| `--compress_pos_emb COMPRESS_POS_EMB` | Positional embeddings compression factor. Should be set to (context length) / (model's original context length). Equal to 1/rope_freq_scale. |

#### Gradio

| Flag                                  | Description |
|---------------------------------------|-------------|
| `--listen`                            | Make the web UI reachable from your local network. |
| `--listen-host LISTEN_HOST`           | The hostname that the server will use. |
| `--listen-port LISTEN_PORT`           | The listening port that the server will use. |
| `--share`                             | Create a public URL. This is useful for running the web UI on Google Colab or similar. |
| `--auto-launch`                       | Open the web UI in the default browser upon launch. |
| `--gradio-auth USER:PWD`              | set gradio authentication like "username:password"; or comma-delimit multiple like "u1:p1,u2:p2,u3:p3" |
| `--gradio-auth-path GRADIO_AUTH_PATH` | Set the gradio authentication file path. The file should contain one or more user:password pairs in this format: "u1:p1,u2:p2,u3:p3" |
| `--ssl-keyfile SSL_KEYFILE`           | The path to the SSL certificate key file. |
| `--ssl-certfile SSL_CERTFILE`         | The path to the SSL certificate cert file. |

#### API

| Flag                                  | Description |
|---------------------------------------|-------------|
| `--api`                               | Enable the API extension. |
| `--public-api`                        | Create a public URL for the API using Cloudfare. |
| `--public-api-id PUBLIC_API_ID`       | Tunnel ID for named Cloudflare Tunnel. Use together with public-api option. |
| `--api-blocking-port BLOCKING_PORT`   | The listening port for the blocking API. |
| `--api-streaming-port STREAMING_PORT` | The listening port for the streaming API. |

#### Multimodal

| Flag                                  | Description |
|---------------------------------------|-------------|
| `--multimodal-pipeline PIPELINE`      | The multimodal pipeline to use. Examples: `llava-7b`, `llava-13b`. |

## Presets

Inference settings presets can be created under `presets/` as yaml files. These files are detected automatically at startup.

The presets that are included by default are the result of a contest that received 7215 votes. More details can be found [here](https://github.com/oobabooga/oobabooga.github.io/blob/main/arena/results.md).

## Contributing

If you would like to contribute to the project, check out the [Contributing guidelines](https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui/wiki/Contributing-guidelines).

## Community

* Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/oobabooga/
* Discord: https://discord.gg/jwZCF2dPQN

## Acknowledgment

In August 2023, [Andreessen Horowitz](https://a16z.com/) (a16z) provided a generous grant to encourage and support my independent work on this project. I am **extremely** grateful for their trust and recognition, which will allow me to dedicate more time towards realizing the full potential of text-generation-webui.