Is Paperclip Down?

Quickest ways to check the current status of paperclip.ing plus recent known issues and working alternatives if it's out.

Last editorial review: 2026-04-13

How to check right now

Step 1 -- Load the site
Open paperclip.ing→

The simplest check. If it loads and you can log in, the tool is up for you.

Step 2 -- Crowdsourced reports
DownDetector: Paperclip→

User-reported outages aggregated across regions. Good signal for partial or regional outages.

Step 3 -- Live social
Search X for “Paperclipdown” →

Live tweets from other users. Fastest signal for a fresh outage -- often beats status pages by 10-20 minutes.

Step 4 -- Official status page
Find Paperclip's status page →

Most vendors publish a status page at status.[domain] or on Statuspage.io. Google-search to find the current URL.

Known issues we've tracked

Embedded Postgres occasionally corrupts on unclean shutdown, recommended to move to external Postgres before production use
2026-04•GitHub Issues
Budget enforcement has a race condition on high-concurrency task checkout, can allow small overshoots on the first run after a restart
2026-04•GitHub Issues / Paperclip docs

Issues here are sourced from our editorial sweeps, not real-time telemetry. Newer issues may exist.

What to use if Paperclip is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

A

Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0

8.4

Microsoft's MIT-licensed open-source agent orchestration framework -- GA on 2026-04-03. Merges Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single SDK. Python and .NET. Native MCP and A2A protocol support. Connectors for Foundry, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Claude, Bedrock, Gemini, Ollama

A

LangGraph

8.3

LangChain's graph-based framework for building stateful, controllable multi-agent and human-in-the-loop AI workflows

A

CrewAI

8.0

Python framework for building multi-agent systems with role-based agents, tasks, and sequential or hierarchical processes

A

Augment Code Intent

8.0

Spec-driven multi-agent orchestration for code -- coordinator + implementor agents in isolated git worktrees + verifier. Works with Augment's Auggie, Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode. Public beta 2026-02-10

B

Agentforce Vibes 2.0

7.3

Salesforce's multi-model agent platform (Claude Sonnet + GPT-5 + open harness), paired with Headless 360 that turns every Salesforce capability into an API/MCP/CLI for external agents. Launched at TDX 2026 on 2026-04-15

About Paperclip

Tier A (8.6/10). Open-source orchestration layer that turns your AI agents into a company -- org charts, budgets, governance, and heartbeats for the whole team

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