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huginn vs BugPin
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars, 4,298 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. BugPin has 38 stars, 11 forks, 7 open issues and last shipped 10 days ago. huginn leads on adoption by 131,392% (49,967 vs 38 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; BugPin is written in TypeScript under AGPL-3.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, BugPin 29%. 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 | BugPin | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 38 |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-09-16 | 2026-09-08 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 11 |
| 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 BugPin if
- You want the BugPin feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and BugPin 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 BugPin
BugPin is a self hosted, open source visual bug reporting tool that lets teams capture annotated screenshots, collect diagnostic metadata, and triage bug reports from web applications running on their own servers.
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or BugPin more popular?
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars and BugPin has 38. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and BugPin free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and BugPin under AGPL-3.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and BugPin?
huginn is written in Ruby and BugPin 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 BugPin?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,967 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose BugPin if its feature set, stack or AGPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.