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cadence vs Dograh
cadence has 9,446 GitHub stars, 915 forks, 205 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. Dograh has 5,696 stars, 1,424 forks, 77 open issues and last shipped yesterday. cadence leads on adoption by 66% (9,446 vs 5,696 stars). cadence is written in Go under Apache-2.0; Dograh is written in Python under BSD-2-Clause. cadence has attracted 10% as many forks as stars, Dograh 25%. Dograh was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
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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| cadence | Dograh | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 9.4K | ★ 5.7K |
| License | Apache-2.0 | BSD-2-Clause |
| Written in | Go | Python |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-19 |
| Forks | ⑂ 915 | ⑂ 1.4K |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick cadence if
- You weight community size — 9.4K stars and counting
- You want the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick Dograh if
- You want the Dograh feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the BSD-2-Clause license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You evaluated both and Dograh fits your workflow better
About cadence
Cadence is an open source orchestration engine for running asynchronous, long running business logic in a fault tolerant way. Written in Go under the Apache 2.0 license, it lives in the distributed systems and workflow automation space, and the project has been open source since 2017. This repository holds the core engine plus supporting tools: the CLI, schema management, a benchmark suite, and a canary. Client libraries for Go and Java are official, while Python and Ruby SDKs come from the community, and iWF can be layered on top as a DSL framework.
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About Dograh
Dograh is a self hostable, open source voice AI platform under the BSD 2 Clause licence that lets teams build production voice agents with a visual workflow builder while keeping every line of source code, model choice, and call data on infrastructure they control.
read the full Dograh overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is cadence or Dograh more popular?
cadence has 9,446 GitHub stars and Dograh has 5,696. cadence has the larger community by that measure.
Are cadence and Dograh free?
Both are open source. cadence is licensed under Apache-2.0 and Dograh under BSD-2-Clause. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between cadence and Dograh?
cadence is written in Go and Dograh in Python. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, cadence or Dograh?
Choose cadence if you want the larger community (9,446 stars) or its Apache-2.0 licence terms. Choose Dograh if its feature set, stack or BSD-2-Clause licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.