/ comparisons

Choose the system
that fits your team.

Start with who operates the runtime, how your team assigns work, and what you need to customize. Memory, schedules, and delegation appear across these products. Test how they work on your tasks.

/ start with the decision

Three questions,
before the feature list.

  1. Who operates it?

    Viktor provides a hosted service. Paperclip and Agent Swarm offer open-source systems you can self-host. Include maintenance and provider costs in the decision.

  2. How does work flow?

    Paperclip organizes goals, reporting lines, and tasks. Viktor handles requests across connected tools. Agent Swarm coordinates a lead and specialized workers.

  3. What must you control?

    Check runtime choice, integration access, review controls, and retained context. Use the comparisons below to identify what your trial must verify.

Compare the operating models

Paperclip vs Agent Swarm

Compare two open-source systems for agent teams: Paperclip's organization control plane and Agent Swarm's lead-and-worker workflow.

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Viktor vs Agent Swarm

Compare Viktor's hosted AI employee with Agent Swarm's self-hosted agent team. Both support memory, scheduled work, and delegation.

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CrewAI vs Agent Swarm

Compare CrewAI, a Python framework for agentic apps, with Agent Swarm, a persistent, memory-backed operating swarm with scheduling and active workers.

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Vercel eve vs Agent Swarm

Compare Vercel eve, a TypeScript framework for durable agents, with Agent Swarm: a self-hosted swarm with shared memory, schedules, and workers.

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Claude Tag vs Agent Swarm

Compare Claude Tag, Anthropic's persistent Slack agent, with Agent Swarm: a self-hosted swarm where your memory, skills, and learning loop stay yours.

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Devin vs Agent Swarm

Devin is a capable autonomous engineer you rent in the cloud. Agent Swarm is a coordinated team you own — memory and identities compound and stay yours.

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Manus vs Agent Swarm

Manus vs Agent Swarm: a hosted general AI agent you rent vs a self-hosted team you own with persistent memory on your infrastructure.

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OpenClaw vs Agent Swarm

Compare OpenClaw, an open-source, model-agnostic personal assistant, with Agent Swarm, a company team with shared memory, workers, and reviewers built in.

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Hermes vs Agent Swarm

Compare Hermes by Nous Research, an open, self-hosted, model-agnostic agent, with Agent Swarm's standing team of workers and shared institutional memory.

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Cloudflare OS vs Agent Swarm

Cloudflare OS is a secure AI productivity workspace for people and their apps. Agent Swarm is a team of specialized agents coordinating company delivery.

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QM vs Agent Swarm

QM gives every employee and room an isolated agent workspace. Agent Swarm runs specialized agents as one delivery team with shared tasks and review loops.

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LangGraph vs Agent Swarm

Compare LangGraph, a low-level framework for building stateful agents, with Agent Swarm, an operating system for AI work you self-host under MIT.

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Dify vs Agent Swarm

Compare Dify, a platform for building agentic apps on a visual canvas, with Agent Swarm, an operating system for AI work you self-host under MIT.

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OpenAI Swarm vs Agent Swarm

OpenAI Swarm is an educational library replaced by the Agents SDK. Agent Swarm is Desplega Labs' open-source, self-hosted AI company operating system.

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Temporal vs Agent Swarm

Compare Temporal, a durable execution platform for deterministic workflow code, with Agent Swarm, an open-source operating system for AI work.

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OpenAI Agents SDK vs Agent Swarm

The OpenAI Agents SDK is a library for building agents into your own app. Agent Swarm is a self-hosted operating swarm that runs recurring team work.

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n8n vs Agent Swarm

n8n automates the workflows you draw; Agent Swarm hands goals to a persistent team of agents that sits on top of n8n. Compare triggers, memory, approvals, pricing, and license.

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AutoGen vs Agent Swarm

Compare AutoGen, Microsoft's framework for building multi-agent apps in code, with Agent Swarm, a self-hosted operating system for delegated work.

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Multi-vendor comparisons

Multiplayer AI platforms compared

Agent Swarm against five multiplayer AI platforms on shared sessions, context, governance and deployment, with every claim labeled as documented, tested, or vendor claim.

Compare

How to choose a self-hosted AI agent platform for a team

A dated, sourced rule for a team buying a self-hosted agent platform: how six products differ on shared context and worker isolation.

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Make the trial concrete

Give each system the same bounded task and acceptance criteria. Repeat related work in a new session. Then schedule a recurring task. Compare output quality, context recovery, review effort, failures, and total cost.

We publish Agent Swarm. We reviewed the primary sources linked in each comparison on October 15, 2026. These pages compare documented capabilities. They do not report controlled benchmarks or security assessments. Plans and configuration affect availability.

/ Install

Two ways in.

01 · THE EASY WAY

Ask your coding agent

It reads the skill, asks about your setup, then installs the swarm.

Read https://agent-swarm.dev/skill.md and help me install and operate Agent Swarm on our infra. Ask about my setup before running anything.

02 · THE FAST WAY

Run the installer

One command. Needs Docker.

$ curl -fsSL https://agent-swarm.dev/install.sh | bash

Or read the docs first

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