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huginn vs Cachet
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars, 4,298 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. Cachet has 15,242 stars, 1,632 forks, 7 open issues and last shipped yesterday. huginn leads on adoption by 228% (49,967 vs 15,242 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; Cachet is written in PHP under a custom or non-standard licence. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, Cachet 11%. Cachet 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 | Cachet | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 15K |
| License | MIT | Custom / other |
| Written in | Ruby | PHP |
| Last push | 2026-09-16 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 1.6K |
| 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 Cachet if
- You want the Cachet feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches PHP
- You evaluated both and Cachet 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 Cachet
Cachet is an open source, self hosted status page system. It lives in the PHP and Laravel ecosystem, and it is categorized under Infrastructure and Operations and Monitoring and Observability. The project is intended for teams that need a dedicated place to communicate service status and downtime in a transparent way.
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or Cachet more popular?
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars and Cachet has 15,242. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and Cachet free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT, and Cachet has no licence declared in this registry. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between huginn and Cachet?
huginn is written in Ruby and Cachet in PHP. 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 Cachet?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,967 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose Cachet if its feature set, stack or Custom / other licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.