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huginn vs beyla
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped today. beyla has 2,132 stars, 193 forks, 109 open issues and last shipped today. huginn leads on adoption by 2,244% (49,969 vs 2,132 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; beyla is written in Go under Apache-2.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, beyla 9%. huginn 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 | beyla | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 2.1K |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-18 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 193 |
| 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 beyla if
- You want the beyla 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 beyla 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 beyla
Grafana Beyla Open source zero code automatic instrumentation with eBPF and OpenTelemetry. Important Update for current and future Beyla contributors Beyla has been donated to the CNCF OpenTelemetry Project, under the project name OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation or OBI for short. We are in the process of vendoring most of the code that exists in the Beyla source repository from upstream. If you are working on a PR, unless it's related to documentation, please make the PR to the upstream repository. All Beyla current maintainers work full time on the upstream repository. We expect that the process of migrating …
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or beyla more popular?
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars and beyla has 2,132. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and beyla free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and beyla under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and beyla?
huginn is written in Ruby and beyla 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 beyla?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,969 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose beyla if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.