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paperclipvsxpipe-webtop

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

paperclipxpipe-webtop
Score88/10070/100
Rank in category#4 of 125 in AI#5 of 23 in Remote Access
GitHub stars108 30114 632
Stars, last 30 days+26 937+76
Stable releases, 12 months1035
Latest releasev2026.1012.0 · 12 Oct 202624.9 · 25 Oct 2026
SetupModerateEasy
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseMITApache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptJava

Which one should you pick?

paperclip scores 88/100 against 70/100 for xpipe-webtop, so it is the safer default.

xpipe-webtop ships more often: 35 stable releases in the past year, against 10 for paperclip.

If you want the quickest setup, xpipe-webtop is easier to run; paperclip needs more configuration.

paperclip is growing faster right now (+26 937 stars in 30 days).

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