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Paperless-ngx

v1.0.0
Load

Small office, up to 10 users: ~500 documents/month (~2,500 pages), an archive of up to 5,000 documents, mail rules fetching invoices.

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Recommended resources

App requirements + system baseline + safety headroom. Nothing else is added, and nothing is rounded to a machine size.

vCPU 4.02, RAM 5.4 GiB, Disk 136.563 GiB

vCPU4.02
RAM5.4GiB
Disk136.563GiB
Breakdown
LineFromvCPURAM (GiB)Disk (GiB)Sources
Paperless-ngxPaperless-ngx (web server, task worker, consumer) · Medium load22103.512345
Paperless-ngxPostgreSQL · Medium load116.56789101112
Paperless-ngxValkey (Celery task broker) · Medium load0.250.250.2513413
System baselineOperating system, Container runtime (Docker Engine, containerd), System logs (journald), plus logs for 5 containers0.11.258.5141516171819
Safety headroomvCPU 20%, RAM 20%, disk 15% of apps + baseline0.670.917.8132015211822
Recommended total4.025.4136.563
Sources
  1. Paperless-ngx docs (v3.3.1): Configuration (TASK_WORKERS 1, THREADS_PER_WORKER, WEBSERVER_WORKERS 1, SECRET_KEY required, ADMIN_USER, Tika, OCR languages) (Paperless-ngx, read 14 Oct 2026)
  2. Paperless-ngx docs (v3.3.1): Setup (Docker Compose install, PostgreSQL recommended, superuser prompt, rootless, less powerful devices) (Paperless-ngx, read 14 Oct 2026)
  3. paperless-ngx repository: settings at v3.3.1 (CELERY_WORKER_CONCURRENCY = TASK_WORKERS default 1; threads = cpu_count / workers; task limit 1800 s; result TTL 3600 s; signed-pickle messages) (Paperless-ngx, read 14 Oct 2026)
  4. Virtua.Cloud tutorial: Self-host Paperless-ngx on a VPS (v3; webserver ~650 MB idle / ~1,100 MB during OCR; Tika ~160/400 MB; Gotenberg ~10/300 MB; 5-10 GB per 1,000 documents) (Paperless-ngx, read 14 Oct 2026)
  5. Docker Hub: paperlessngx/paperless-ngx tag 3.3.1 (same index digest as GHCR 3.3.1; linux/amd64 831,850,028 B compressed; layers decompressed and counted: 2,575,073,792 B) (Paperless-ngx, read 14 Oct 2026)
  6. PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 19.4 Resource Consumption (Paperless-ngx, read 10 Oct 2026)
  7. PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 19.3 Connections and Authentication (Paperless-ngx, read 10 Oct 2026)
  8. PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 19.10 Vacuuming (autovacuum settings) (Paperless-ngx, read 10 Oct 2026)
  9. PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 19.5 Write Ahead Log (max_wal_size) (Paperless-ngx, read 10 Oct 2026)
  10. PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 51.2 How Connections Are Established (Paperless-ngx, read 10 Oct 2026)
  11. Docker Official Image postgres: documentation (docker-library/docs) (Paperless-ngx, read 10 Oct 2026)
  12. Docker Hub: library/postgres tag 18.6 (compressed image sizes) (Paperless-ngx, read 10 Oct 2026)
  13. Docker Hub: valkey/valkey tag 9.1.2-alpine (= 9-alpine; linux/amd64 18,803,257 B compressed; layers decompressed and counted: 45,906,944 B) (Paperless-ngx, read 14 Oct 2026)
  14. Ubuntu Server: System requirements (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  15. Google Kubernetes Engine: About GKE node sizing (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  16. ANAROQ measurement: dockerd and containerd at rest (Ubuntu 24.04, Docker 29.8.2) (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  17. Docker Community Forums: Docker resource usage & overhead (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  18. journald.conf(5), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  19. Docker Docs: Local file logging driver (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  20. AWS Compute Optimizer: Rightsizing recommendation preferences (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  21. Kubernetes: Node-pressure Eviction (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  22. mke2fs(8), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
Basis
Catalog release
2026.10.10
Sizing policy
2026.10.0
Profile Paperless-ngx
1.0.0

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