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paperclipvsThesys

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

paperclipThesys
Score88/10041/100
Rank in category#4 of 124 in AI#5 of 5 in Research
GitHub stars108 472177
Stars, last 30 days+25 648+0
Stable releases, 12 months105
Latest releasev2026.1012.0 · 12 Oct 2026v0.4.0 · 23 Sept 2026
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITAGPL-3.0
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

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

paperclip ships more often: 10 stable releases in the past year, against 5 for Thesys.

paperclip is growing faster right now (+25 648 stars in 30 days).

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