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huginn vs aspire-samples
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. aspire-samples has 1,191 stars, 345 forks, 112 open issues and last shipped yesterday. huginn leads on adoption by 4,096% (49,969 vs 1,191 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; aspire-samples is written in C# under MIT. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, aspire-samples 29%. aspire-samples 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 | aspire-samples | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 1.2K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Ruby | C# |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-18 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 345 |
| 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 aspire-samples if
- You want the aspire-samples feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches C#
- You evaluated both and aspire-samples 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 aspire-samples
Aspire Samples is a browsable catalogue of runnable reference applications that demonstrate how to wire front ends, APIs, containers, and databases together with Aspire, written for developers building distributed and polyglot applications who learn best from working code.
read the full aspire-samples overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or aspire-samples more popular?
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars and aspire-samples has 1,191. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and aspire-samples free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and aspire-samples under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and aspire-samples?
huginn is written in Ruby and aspire-samples in C#. 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 aspire-samples?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,969 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose aspire-samples if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.