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A 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,...

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Features

  • 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 Containersmoderate 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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