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Archon vs Inngest
Archon has 23,495 GitHub stars, 3,474 forks, 321 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Inngest has 5,841 stars, 357 forks, 234 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Archon leads on adoption by 302% (23,495 vs 5,841 stars). Archon is written in TypeScript under MIT; Inngest is written in Go under a custom or non-standard licence. Archon has attracted 15% as many forks as stars, Inngest 6%. Inngest was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 2 topic tags (cli, workflow-engine), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| Archon | Inngest | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 23K | ★ 5.8K |
| License | MIT | Custom / other |
| Written in | TypeScript | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 3.5K | ⑂ 357 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Archon if
- You weight community size — 23K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick Inngest if
- You want the Inngest feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and Inngest fits your workflow better
About Archon
Archon is an open source workflow engine for AI coding agents, written in TypeScript and released under the MIT license. It lives in the AI coding ecosystem, alongside tools such as Claude Code, and is distributed through the Bun runtime and the GitHub CLI. The project describes itself as a harness builder: it lets a developer encode a development process as a YAML workflow and then run that workflow reliably across projects. Workflows are stored in a .archon/workflows/ directory and committed to the repository, so the same definition can be invoked from the CLI, a web UI, Slack, Telegram, or GitHub.…
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About Inngest
Inngest is an open source workflow orchestration platform that lets developers write durable, event driven step functions in their existing language SDKs and run them on serverless, long running servers, or the edge.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Archon or Inngest more popular?
Archon has 23,495 GitHub stars and Inngest has 5,841. Archon has the larger community by that measure.
Are Archon and Inngest free?
Both are open source. Archon is licensed under MIT, and Inngest has no licence declared in this registry. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between Archon and Inngest?
Archon is written in TypeScript and Inngest in Go. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Archon or Inngest?
Choose Archon if you want the larger community (23,495 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose Inngest if its feature set, stack or Custom / other licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.