What is Paperclip?
One dashboard to run the agents that run your business.
Who is Paperclip best for?
Paperclip is best for teams running many agents like Claude Code and Codex who need goals, budgets and approvals.
Juggling many coding agents
Work becomes tickets with threaded conversations and sessions that survive reboots, instead of a pile of open terminal tabs.
Keeping AI spend in check
Each agent gets a monthly budget, with a warning at 80% and an automatic pause at 100% until you raise the limit.
Recurring business work
Agents wake on a schedule to handle support queues, reports, posts and other routine jobs, and every run is logged as a tracked task.
Running several ventures
One deployment can run many separate companies with isolated data, and org setups can be exported and reused as templates.
How much does Paperclip cost?
Paperclip is free and open source under the MIT license: you install and run it yourself with no Paperclip account, and the maker shows no prices for the version it is rolling out through a waitlist.
- MIT license, no Paperclip account needed
- Runs locally with a built-in Postgres database, or on your own Postgres
- Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw and other agents
Paperclip has no pricing page: the self-hosted app installs with one command, and a second version is rolling out gradually through a waitlist on the maker's site, with no prices shown. Full pricing on paperclip.ing. We checked these prices on .
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Is Paperclip open source?
Yes. Paperclip's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can run it on your own server.
On GitHub
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- Last commit
- 13 Nov
- Repository age
- 8 months
- Latest release
- 6 Nov
- Licence
- MIT
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Repository
- paperclipai/paperclip
What are the best Paperclip alternatives?
Paperclip is an open source alternative to Cofounder 2, NanoCorp and Lyzr Ai. CrewAI does the same job and is open source too.
Questions about Paperclip
What is Paperclip?
One dashboard to run the agents that run your business.
Who is Paperclip for?
Paperclip is best for teams running many agents like Claude Code and Codex who need goals, budgets and approvals.
Is Paperclip free?
Yes. Paperclip has a free plan: MIT license, no Paperclip account needed.
Is Paperclip open source?
Yes. Paperclip's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can run it on your own server.
What are the best Paperclip alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Cofounder 2, NanoCorp, Lyzr Ai and CrewAI.
Where can I try Paperclip?
On its official website, paperclip.ing.
What do I need to run Paperclip?
Paperclip runs as a single Node.js process, on your own computer or a remote server. Locally it sets up its own embedded Postgres database, or you can point it at your own Postgres, and the installer needs Node.js 24.11 or newer.
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