Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/aden-hive/hive/vs/paperclipai/paperclip
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/aden-hive/hive/vs/paperclipai/paperclip.md
Description: hive and paperclip share 11 technologies: Anthropic, Vite, React, react-router-dom, MCP, Tailwind CSS, tailwind-merge, Mermaid, Lucide, react-markdown, and remark-gfm. hive is written in Python and paperclip in TypeScript.

# hive vs paperclip

hive and paperclip share 11 technologies: Anthropic, Vite, React, react-router-dom, MCP, Tailwind CSS, tailwind-merge, Mermaid, Lucide, react-markdown, and remark-gfm. hive is written in Python and paperclip in TypeScript.

- [aden-hive/hive](https://seerepo.com/r/aden-hive/hive): Multi-Agent Harness for Production AI
- [paperclipai/paperclip](https://seerepo.com/r/paperclipai/paperclip): The open-source app everyone uses to manage agents at work

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Anthropic, Vite, React, react-router-dom, MCP, Tailwind CSS, tailwind-merge, Mermaid, Lucide, react-markdown, remark-gfm
- Only in hive: fastmcp, litellm, Pydantic, psutil, fontsource-variable, echarts, shiki
- Only in paperclip: Express, Postgres, embedded-postgres, Google, aws-sdk-s3, AWS S3, Tokio, OpenAI, Sentry, Svix, Zod, @clack/prompts, Drizzle, acpx, Cursor, aws-sdk-sts, hmac, aws-sdk-bedrockagentcore, jsonschema, Ajv, @boxd-sh/sdk, Cloudflare, @daytonaio/sdk, e2b, @kubernetes/client-node, novita-sandbox, three, Better Auth, Vercel, chat, ai, OpenRouter, ai-sdk, sharp, dompurify, ajv-formats, opentelemetry, pino, pino-http, class-variance-authority, Radix UI, motion, dnd-kit, @mdxeditor/editor, lexical, Base UI, @lezer/highlight, cmdk, CodeMirror, react-resizable-panels, xterm, @assistant-ui/react, @spekoai/client, mdast-util-from-markdown, yaml

## Side by side

| | hive | paperclip |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 408,502 lines written, 479 code files | 3,556,913 lines written, 5,493 code files |
| Who writes it | 8% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and GitHub Copilot | 26.5% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot |
| Activity | Last push November 8, 2026, 2,615 commits, 11,155 stars | Last push November 12, 2026, 7,243 commits, 113,227 stars |
| Tests | 468 test files. 48.2% of its code files have a test that imports them | 6,093 test files. 62.7% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, hive or paperclip?

paperclip, with 3,556,913 lines written; hive has 408,502.

The proof: [paperclipai/paperclip's code at commit 51d7764](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/tree/51d77648bc62c2f05fdf377df1b35b1673da3b1b)

### Which has more GitHub stars, hive or paperclip?

paperclip, with 113,227 stars; hive has 11,155.

The proof: [paperclipai/paperclip on GitHub](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip)

### Which has more tests, hive or paperclip?

paperclip, with 6,093 test files; hive has 468.

The proof: [paperclipai/paperclip's code at commit 51d7764](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/tree/51d77648bc62c2f05fdf377df1b35b1673da3b1b)

### Which was updated more recently, hive or paperclip?

paperclip: its last push was on November 12, 2026, and hive's on November 8, 2026.

The proof: [paperclipai/paperclip's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, hive or paperclip?

paperclip: an AI signed 26.5% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot; in hive, 8%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in paperclipai/paperclip](https://seerepo.com/r/paperclipai/paperclip/ai)

## Sources

- aden-hive/hive: Read on November 12, 2026, at commit c6c2cdc (https://github.com/aden-hive/hive/tree/c6c2cdcfe5a6142cd0da3f82424afc9dd9721cc3)
- paperclipai/paperclip: Read on November 12, 2026, at commit 51d7764 (https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip/tree/51d77648bc62c2f05fdf377df1b35b1673da3b1b)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.