odysseus
★ 62.0kA self-hosted alternative to Chatgpt
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Source-Available — Not OSS4 Containers — 4 containers — moderate hosting footprintDocker · Compose · SourceNo external DB96+ active committers (12mo)
About
Odysseus is a self-hosted AI workspace designed to bring several productivity and model-interaction tools into one web application. It is aimed at users who want to work with chat, agents, research,...
Community Ratings
No ratings yetFeatures
- chat and agents
- local/API models
- MCP
- file handling
- shell tools
- skills and memory
- model recommendations and downloads
- deep research
- model comparison
- documents editor with AI assistance
Details
- Last Updated
- Jul 26, 2026
- Created
- May 31, 2026
- Install Methods
- dockerdocker-composesource
- Requirements
- DockerDocker Compose
- Authentication
- 2fa
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: OptionalOffline Capable
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓4 Containers — moderate hosting footprintRuns as 4 containers
Docker Compose
4 services · 3 unclassified (chroma, searxng, ntfy)
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (9 volumes)
docker-compose.yml · @ df2fad2 · scanned Jul 12, 2026
services:
odysseus:
build: .
ports:
- "${APP_BIND:-127.0.0.1}:${APP_PORT:-7000}:7000"
volumes:
- ${APP_DATA_DIR:-./data}:/app/data:z
- ${APP_LOGS_DIR:-./logs}:/app/logs:z
# Cookbook remote-server SSH identity. Odysseus can generate a key here;
# add the shown public key to each remote server's authorized_keys.
- ${APP_DATA_DIR:-./data}/ssh:/app/.ssh:z
# Cookbook local model cache. Inside Docker, "Local" means the Odysseus
# container, so persist its HuggingFace cache under ./data/huggingface.
- ${APP_DATA_DIR:-./data}/huggingface:/app/.cache/huggingface:z
# Cookbook-installed Python CLIs/packages (vLLM, llama-cpp-python, etc.)
# land under /app/.local for the odysseus user. Persist them so a
# container recreate does not silently remove installed serve engines.
- ${APP_DATA_DIR:-./data}/local:/app/.local:z
extra_hosts:
# Lets the container reach local services on the Docker host, including
# ...
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