diff --git a/src/lib/components/chat/Settings/Connections.svelte b/src/lib/components/chat/Settings/Connections.svelte
index 6f3d0e3f12..66fe8e9ebc 100644
--- a/src/lib/components/chat/Settings/Connections.svelte
+++ b/src/lib/components/chat/Settings/Connections.svelte
@@ -124,6 +124,12 @@
 					{/each}
 				</div>
 
+				<div class="text-[0.6875rem] text-gray-400 dark:text-gray-600">
+					{$i18n.t(
+						'Connections managed through the Admin Panel are recommended for everyday use. Direct connections provide convenient access to your own endpoints, but rely on your browser session to keep requests running, making them better suited to testing and temporary use.'
+					)}
+				</div>
+
 				<div class="text-[0.6875rem] text-gray-400 dark:text-gray-600">
 					<!-- LICENSE covers this Open WebUI wordmark.
 						Do not alter, remove, obscure, or replace it except as LICENSE permits:
diff --git a/src/lib/components/chat/Settings/Integrations.svelte b/src/lib/components/chat/Settings/Integrations.svelte
index 29f0a43479..b941368c5e 100644
--- a/src/lib/components/chat/Settings/Integrations.svelte
+++ b/src/lib/components/chat/Settings/Integrations.svelte
@@ -148,6 +148,11 @@
 					<div class="mt-1 {helpTextClass}">
 						{$i18n.t('Connect to your own OpenAPI compatible external tool servers.')}
 					</div>
+					<div class={helpTextClass}>
+						{$i18n.t(
+							'Connections managed through the Admin Panel are recommended for everyday use. Direct connections provide convenient access to your own endpoints, but rely on your browser session to keep requests running, making them better suited to testing and temporary use.'
+						)}
+					</div>
 					<div class={helpTextClass}>
 						<!-- LICENSE covers this Open WebUI wordmark.
 							Do not alter, remove, obscure, or replace it except as LICENSE permits:
diff --git a/src/lib/i18n/locales/en-US/translation.json b/src/lib/i18n/locales/en-US/translation.json
index 034e300997..f8edf46aa9 100644
--- a/src/lib/i18n/locales/en-US/translation.json
+++ b/src/lib/i18n/locales/en-US/translation.json
@@ -637,6 +637,7 @@
 	"Connection successful": "",
 	"Connection Type": "",
 	"Connections": "",
+	"Connections managed through the Admin Panel are recommended for everyday use. Direct connections provide convenient access to your own endpoints, but rely on your browser session to keep requests running, making them better suited to testing and temporary use.": "",
 	"Connections saved successfully": "",
 	"Connections settings updated": "",
 	"Constrains effort on reasoning for reasoning models. Only applicable to reasoning models from specific providers that support reasoning effort.": "",