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huginn vs ali
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars, 4,339 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. ali has 3,937 stars, 152 forks, 25 open issues and last shipped 10 months ago. huginn leads on adoption by 1,177% (50,269 vs 3,937 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; ali is written in Go under MIT. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, ali 4%. huginn was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (monitoring), 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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Side by side
| huginn | ali | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 3.9K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Ruby | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-01-19 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 152 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick huginn if
- You weight community size — 50K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Ruby
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick ali if
- You want the ali feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and ali fits your workflow better
About huginn
What is Huginn? Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do. Here are some of the things that you can do with Huginn: Track the weather and get an email when it's going to rain (or snow) tomorrow ("Don't forget your umbrella!") List terms that you care about and receive email when their occurrence on…
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About ali
ali A load testing tool capable of performing real time analysis, inspired by vegeta and jplot. ali comes with an embedded terminal based UI where you can plot the metrics in real time, so lets you perform real time analysis on the terminal. Installation Binary releases are available through here. Via Homebrew Via MacPorts Via APT Via RPM Via Pacman Via APK After enabling the community repo: Via Go Note that you may have a problem because it downloads an untagged binary. Via Docker Usage Quickstart Replace with the target you want to issue the requests to. Press Enter when the UI appears, then the attack will be…
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or ali more popular?
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars and ali has 3,937. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and ali free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and ali under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and ali?
huginn is written in Ruby and ali 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, huginn or ali?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (50,269 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose ali if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.