Use Augure with Open WebUI

You get Augure models in Open WebUI's model picker for every user of your instance, with inference on Canadian infrastructure.

Prerequisites

• A running Open WebUI instance (Docker or pip) with an admin account.
• An Augure API key (aug_sk_live_…) from the developer dashboard. Plans and pricing: augureai.ca/developers.

Configure

In the admin panel

1. Open Admin Panel > Settings > Connections.
2. Under OpenAI API, add a connection (the + button).
3. Enter the URL and key:

URL: https://api.augureai.ca/v1
Key: aug_sk_live_...

4. Save. Open WebUI calls /v1/models on the connection and lists ossington-5, rosedale-1, tofino-3, auto and the others in the model picker.

With environment variables

For a fresh Docker deployment, the same connection can be set at start:

docker run -d -p 3000:8080 \
  -e OPENAI_API_BASE_URL=https://api.augureai.ca/v1 \
  -e OPENAI_API_KEY=aug_sk_live_... \
  -v open-webui:/app/backend/data \
  --name open-webui ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

To run Augure alongside another OpenAI-compatible provider, use the plural forms OPENAI_API_BASE_URLS and OPENAI_API_KEYS with ; between values. Settings saved in the admin panel take precedence over environment variables after first start.

Pick a model

Model	When to use
ossington-5	Flagship reasoning. 256K context, 32,768 max output. Default for hard questions and documents.
rosedale-1	Premium reasoning, up to 1M context on paid plans, Canadian inference. Very long documents.
tofino-3	Fast everyday model, 256K context, 16,384 max output, no thinking. Everyday chat.

auto appears in the picker and lets the gateway pick. On ossington-5, reasoning_effort none turns thinking off; Open WebUI exposes a Reasoning Effort field in a model's advanced parameters (Workspace > Models > edit) in recent versions, though its allowed values may not include none. Full list: /docs/models.

You can hide models you do not want users to see under Admin Panel > Settings > Models, and set a default model per instance.

Verify it works

Start a new chat, pick tofino-3 and send "Reply with the single word OK." For the residency check, call the API once from the host:

curl -s https://api.augureai.ca/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUGURE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"tofino-3","max_tokens":64,"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Reply with the single word OK."}]}'

The JSON ends with an _augure block, for example "_augure": {"gateway_region": "ca-montreal-1", "inference_region": "ca-on-toronto", "request_id": "..."}. inference_region tells you where the model ran. Inference is on Canadian infrastructure first, with disclosed failover to vetted EU partners under zero data retention, never the US.

Notes

• Open WebUI streams by default; Augure returns usage in the final chunk when stream_options.include_usage is set, which Open WebUI does in recent versions.
• Reasoning models return their thinking in reasoning_content; recent Open WebUI versions render it as a collapsible block above the answer.
• Images pasted into a chat are sent as image_url content parts, which ossington-5 and rosedale-1 accept. Augure Open models (open-glm-5-3, open-qwen-3.8-flash-next) are text only.
• Open WebUI's title and tag generation uses the selected model by default; point it at tofino-3 under Admin Panel > Settings > Interface to keep those calls fast.

See also

• API reference
• Models
• MCP server
• IDE setup
• Pricing