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Home Assistant vs keploy
Home Assistant has 90,654 GitHub stars, 38,685 forks, 3,527 open issues and last shipped yesterday. keploy has 18,463 stars, 2,357 forks, 725 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Home Assistant leads on adoption by 391% (90,654 vs 18,463 stars). Home Assistant is written in Python under Apache-2.0; keploy is written in Go under Apache-2.0. Home Assistant has attracted 43% as many forks as stars, keploy 13%. Home Assistant 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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| Home Assistant | keploy | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 91K | ★ 18K |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Python | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 39K | ⑂ 2.4K |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Home Assistant if
- You weight community size — 91K stars and counting
- You want the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick keploy if
- You want the keploy feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and keploy fits your workflow better
About Home Assistant
Home Assistant is an open source home automation platform that runs locally on devices such as Raspberry Pi or a personal server. It enables users to control and automate smart home devices—including lights, thermostats, locks, and sensors—without relying on cloud services. Built in Python with an asyncio event loop, it emphasizes local processing and data sovereignty, ensuring all device data remains under the user’s control.
read the full Home Assistant overview →
About keploy
Keploy is an open source Go project in the API and integration testing ecosystem. It is a developer centric API and integration testing tool that creates safe, isolated production sandboxes for API, integration, and end to end testing. The project records API calls, database queries, and streaming events, then replays them as tests and data mocks. It captures traffic at the network layer with eBPF, so the README says it is code less and language agnostic.
read the full keploy overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is Home Assistant or keploy more popular?
Home Assistant has 90,654 GitHub stars and keploy has 18,463. Home Assistant has the larger community by that measure.
Are Home Assistant and keploy free?
Both are open source. Home Assistant is licensed under Apache-2.0 and keploy under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Home Assistant and keploy?
Home Assistant is written in Python and keploy 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, Home Assistant or keploy?
Choose Home Assistant if you want the larger community (90,654 stars) or its Apache-2.0 licence terms. Choose keploy if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.