Paperless-home
by Paperless-home · Hosted paperless-ngx document management with full-text search
BenchRank score
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Overview
Paperless-home is a hosting provider for the paperless-ngx open-source document manager. It stores your documents and makes them fully text searchable, with filtering by correspondent, document type and created date, and filter sets saved as custom views. Documents can be imported by several routes, opened in community-built mobile apps, and exported at any time.
- Best for
- Individuals and small businesses wanting hosted paperless-ngx without running their own server
- Pricing
- No free tier: Essential €5/month, Professional €15/month and Business €30/month, each starting with a 14-day free trial, plus a contact-sales Custom plan.
- Runs on
- iOSAndroid
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Hosted paperless-ngx, so no server setup or updates to run
- Full-text search with filters and saved custom views
- 14-day free trial plus a no-registration demo
- Export anytime, and community mobile apps for phone access
Trade-offs
- Payment details are required to start the 14-day free trial
- Storage is capped: 2 GB on Essential, 25 GB on Business
- Upload size limited to 16-32 MB per file depending on plan
- No free tier; every published plan is paid after the trial
How Paperless-home markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Paperless-home’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Find your documents when you need them most.”
- Angle: Outcome / benefit-led
- Hero: Product video demo
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Paperless-home’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
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