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paperclipvsProxmox Kubernetes Engine

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

paperclipProxmox Kubernetes Engine
Score88/10041/100
Rank in category#4 of 125 in AI#10 of 11 in Container Orchestration
GitHub stars108 237244
Stars, last 30 days+26 873—
Stable releases, 12 months107
Latest releasev2026.1012.0 · 12 Oct 2026v0.0.7 · 13 Sept 2026
SetupModerateAdvanced
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescript—

Which one should you pick?

paperclip scores 88/100 against 41/100 for Proxmox Kubernetes Engine, so it is the safer default.

paperclip ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 7 for Proxmox Kubernetes Engine.

If you want the quickest setup, paperclip is easier to run; Proxmox Kubernetes Engine needs more configuration.

paperclip is growing faster right now (+26 873 stars in 30 days).

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