* improvement(providers): validation pass, and stream tool loop improvements * remove deploy options correctly * fix * feat(providers): prompt caching capability and usage-based cache pricing Replace the arbitrary cached-rate heuristic with a single cache-aware pricing function, and add prompt caching as an opt-in capability for Anthropic. Pricing: priceModelUsage in cost-policy.ts is now the only place cache arithmetic happens. Provider adapters normalize their wire shape into ModelUsage (input always excludes cache buckets); the pricing function never branches on provider. This removes five divergent behaviors, including the !!request.context heuristic that gave Router and Evaluator an unearned 10x input discount, and the overwrite that silently billed Anthropic cache reads and writes at zero. Also parses OpenAI cache_write_tokens, previously ignored. Caching: Anthropic gets a capability-gated advanced switch that places cache_control on the last tool and last system block; system is now always a TextBlockParam array. OpenAI gets a stable per-block prompt_cache_key with no UI, since its caching is automatic. * fix(providers): route OpenAI and Gemini block cost through cache-aware pricing Cache-aware pricing only reached trace segments. The billable block cost still called calculateCost on the cache-inclusive prompt total, so OpenAI cache hits and Gemini implicit-cache hits were charged at the full input rate and GPT-5.6+ cache writes went unbilled. Both providers now accumulate cache buckets and price through priceModelUsage, matching the Anthropic token convention where input excludes cache reads and writes. Cached counts are clamped to the prompt total so an over-reporting payload cannot bill more input than the request contained. * fix(streaming): redact tool payloads on selected outputs in public chat Redaction only ran on the empty-selection branch, but a deployment almost always selects outputs, so it was dead in the case it exists for. Selecting toolCalls streamed the raw arguments and results to a public chat client in a chunk frame, and providerTiming carried thinking content the same way. Both paths now extract from the sanitized block output rather than the raw log: the streamed selected output, which is the reachable vector, and the final envelope. Sanitizing the source rather than per selected path means a newly selectable field cannot reopen the hole. * refactor(providers): drop unreachable billing fallbacks Every provider pricing helper took a policy parameter no caller passed. Worse than dead: passing one would have double-applied the margin the central layer already applies. Removed, so providers can only price at list. Also removed guards that cannot fire. The central fallback normalized cache buckets no provider can reach it with (all three that report cache usage price themselves) and did so at a 1x write multiplier no vendor charges. priceModelUsage re-validated token counts the adapter had already clamped, and applyModelCostPolicy defaulted a required total field. Validation now happens once, in the adapter that parses the vendor payload and is the only layer that knows cache buckets are a subset of the prompt total.
A workspace to build, deploy and manage AI agents and workflows.
Quickstart
Cloud-hosted: sim.ai
Self-hosted
npx simstudio
Docker must be installed and running. Use -p, --port <port> to run Sim on a different port, or --no-pull to skip pulling the latest Docker images.
Capabilities
- Connect 1,000+ integrations and every major LLM
- Add Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, databases, and more
- Build agents visually, conversationally, or with code
- Ingest files, knowledge bases, and structured table data
- Monitor runs, logs, schedules, and workflow activity
One workspace, every surface
Chat and workflows are just the start — tables, files, knowledge, and scheduled tasks all live in the same workspace.
Tables — a database, built in |
Files — one store for your team and every agent |
Knowledge — your agents' memory |
Scheduled tasks — runs on your schedule |
Self-hosting
Docker Compose
git clone https://github.com/simstudioai/sim.git && cd sim
docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d
Sim also supports local models via Ollama and vLLM. See the Docker self-hosting docs for setup details.
Manual Setup
Requirements: Bun, Node.js v20+, PostgreSQL 12+ with pgvector
- Clone and install:
git clone https://github.com/simstudioai/sim.git
cd sim
bun install
bun run prepare # Set up pre-commit hooks
- Set up PostgreSQL with pgvector:
docker run --name simstudio-db -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=your_password -e POSTGRES_DB=simstudio -p 5432:5432 -d pgvector/pgvector:pg17
Or install manually via the pgvector guide.
- Configure environment:
cp apps/sim/.env.example apps/sim/.env
# Create your secrets
perl -i -pe "s/your_encryption_key/$(openssl rand -hex 32)/" apps/sim/.env
perl -i -pe "s/your_internal_api_secret/$(openssl rand -hex 32)/" apps/sim/.env
perl -i -pe "s/your_api_encryption_key/$(openssl rand -hex 32)/" apps/sim/.env
# DB configs for migration
cp packages/db/.env.example packages/db/.env
# Edit both .env files to set DATABASE_URL="postgresql://postgres:your_password@localhost:5432/simstudio"
- Run migrations:
cd packages/db && bun run db:migrate
- Start development servers:
bun run dev:full # Starts Next.js app and realtime socket server
Or run separately: bun run dev (Next.js) and cd apps/sim && bun run dev:sockets (realtime).
Chat API Keys
Chat is a Sim-managed service. To use Chat on a self-hosted instance:
- Go to https://sim.ai → Settings → Chat keys and generate a Chat API key
- Set
COPILOT_API_KEYenvironment variable in your self-hosted apps/sim/.env file to that value
Environment Variables
See the environment variables reference for the full list, or apps/sim/.env.example for defaults.
Tech Stack
Next.js · Bun · PostgreSQL · Drizzle · Better Auth · Tailwind — and the rest of the stack
- Framework: Next.js (App Router)
- Runtime: Bun
- Database: PostgreSQL with Drizzle ORM
- Authentication: Better Auth
- Schema Validation: Zod
- UI: Shadcn, Tailwind CSS
- Streaming Markdown: Streamdown
- State Management: Zustand, TanStack Query
- Flow Editor: ReactFlow
- Docs: Fumadocs
- Monorepo: Turborepo
- Realtime: Socket.io
- Background Jobs: Trigger.dev
- Remote Code Execution: E2B
- Isolated Code Execution: isolated-vm
Contributing
We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details.
License
This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.





