diff --git a/charts/open-webui/README.md b/charts/open-webui/README.md
index b536ae6..7290dfa 100644
--- a/charts/open-webui/README.md
+++ b/charts/open-webui/README.md
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ helm upgrade --install open-webui open-webui/open-webui
 | ollama.fullnameOverride | string | `"open-webui-ollama"` | If enabling embedded Ollama, update fullnameOverride to your desired Ollama name value, or else it will use the default ollama.name value from the Ollama chart |
 | ollamaUrls | list | `[]` | A list of Ollama API endpoints. These can be added in lieu of automatically installing the Ollama Helm chart, or in addition to it. |
 | ollamaUrlsFromExtraEnv | bool | `false` | Disables taking Ollama Urls from `ollamaUrls`  list |
+| enableOpenaiApi | bool | `true` | Enables the use of OpenAI APIs
 | openaiBaseApiUrl | string | `"https://api.openai.com/v1"` | OpenAI base API URL to use. Defaults to the Pipelines service endpoint when Pipelines are enabled, and "https://api.openai.com/v1" if Pipelines are not enabled and this value is blank |
 | openaiBaseApiUrls | list | `[]` | OpenAI base API URLs to use. Overwrites the value in openaiBaseApiUrl if set |
 | persistence.accessModes | list | `["ReadWriteOnce"]` | If using multiple replicas, you must update accessModes to ReadWriteMany |
diff --git a/charts/open-webui/templates/workload-manager.yaml b/charts/open-webui/templates/workload-manager.yaml
index 1a886a9..4edcb8f 100644
--- a/charts/open-webui/templates/workload-manager.yaml
+++ b/charts/open-webui/templates/workload-manager.yaml
@@ -121,22 +121,25 @@ spec:
         - name: "ENABLE_OLLAMA_API"
           value: "False"
         {{- end }}
-        {{- if and .Values.openaiBaseApiUrl (not .Values.openaiBaseApiUrls) (not .Values.pipelines.enabled) }}
+        {{- if and .Values.enableOpenaiApi .Values.openaiBaseApiUrl (not .Values.openaiBaseApiUrls) (not .Values.pipelines.enabled) }}
         # If only an OpenAI API value is set, set it to OPENAI_API_BASE_URL
         - name: "OPENAI_API_BASE_URL"
           value: {{ .Values.openaiBaseApiUrl | quote }}
-        {{- else if and .Values.openaiBaseApiUrl .Values.pipelines.enabled (not .Values.openaiBaseApiUrls) }}
+        {{- else if and .Values.enableOpenaiApi .Values.openaiBaseApiUrl .Values.pipelines.enabled (not .Values.openaiBaseApiUrls) }}
         # If Pipelines is enabled and OpenAI API value is set, use OPENAI_API_BASE_URLS with combined values
         - name: "OPENAI_API_BASE_URLS"
           value: "{{ include "pipelines.serviceEndpoint" . }};{{ .Values.openaiBaseApiUrl }}"
-        {{- else if and .Values.pipelines.enabled (not .Values.openaiBaseApiUrl) (not .Values.openaiBaseApiUrls) }}
+        {{- else if and .Values.enableOpenaiApi .Values.pipelines.enabled (not .Values.openaiBaseApiUrl) (not .Values.openaiBaseApiUrls) }}
         # If Pipelines is enabled and no OpenAI API values are set, set OPENAI_API_BASE_URL to the Pipelines server endpoint 
         - name: "OPENAI_API_BASE_URL"
           value: {{ include "pipelines.serviceEndpoint" . | quote }}
-        {{- else if and .Values.openaiBaseApiUrls .Values.pipelines.enabled }}
+        {{- else if and .Values.enableOpenaiApi .Values.openaiBaseApiUrls .Values.pipelines.enabled }}
         # If OpenAI API value(s) set and Pipelines is enabled, use OPENAI_API_BASE_URLS to support all the endpoints in the chart
         - name: "OPENAI_API_BASE_URLS"
           value: "{{ include "pipelines.serviceEndpoint" . }};{{ join ";" .Values.openaiBaseApiUrls }}"
+        {{- else if not .Values.enableOpenaiApi }}
+        - name: "ENABLE_OPENAI_API"
+          value: "False"
         {{- end }}
         {{- if .Values.extraEnvVars }}
           {{- toYaml .Values.extraEnvVars | nindent 8 }}
diff --git a/charts/open-webui/values.yaml b/charts/open-webui/values.yaml
index a554d44..913baa8 100644
--- a/charts/open-webui/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/open-webui/values.yaml
@@ -232,6 +232,9 @@ service:
   labels: {}
   loadBalancerClass: ""
 
+# Enables the use of OpenAI APIs
+enableOpenaiApi: true
+
 # -- OpenAI base API URL to use. Defaults to the Pipelines service endpoint when Pipelines are enabled, and "https://api.openai.com/v1" if Pipelines are not enabled and this value is blank
 openaiBaseApiUrl: "https://api.openai.com/v1"