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huginn vs amplify-js
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars, 4,298 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. amplify-js has 9,561 stars, 2,174 forks, 512 open issues and last shipped yesterday. huginn leads on adoption by 423% (49,967 vs 9,561 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; amplify-js is written in TypeScript under Apache-2.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, amplify-js 23%. amplify-js 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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| huginn | amplify-js | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 9.6K |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-09-16 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 2.2K |
| 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 amplify-js if
- You want the amplify-js feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and amplify-js fits your workflow better
About huginn
Huginn is an open source system for building agents that perform automated tasks online, written in Ruby and released under the MIT license. Its agents read the web, watch for events, and take actions on the user's behalf. Internally, agents create and consume events that propagate along a directed graph, which means one agent's output becomes another agent's input and a chain of small steps can be composed into a larger workflow. The project lives in the Ruby ecosystem and is distributed as an official Docker image or installed locally from a forked repository.
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About amplify-js
AWS Amplify is a declarative JavaScript library for frontend and mobile developers who build cloud enabled applications. It lives in the JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystem, published on npm as the aws amplify package under the Apache 2.0 license, and it pairs with any JavaScript based frontend workflow as well as React Native for mobile developers. The project has been developed for roughly nine years and is maintained by AWS, with its documentation hosted at docs.amplify.aws.
read the full amplify-js overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or amplify-js more popular?
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars and amplify-js has 9,561. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and amplify-js free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and amplify-js under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and amplify-js?
huginn is written in Ruby and amplify-js in TypeScript. 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 amplify-js?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,967 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose amplify-js if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.