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huginn vs clockwork
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars, 4,339 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. clockwork has 5,946 stars, 332 forks, 39 open issues and last shipped 2 months ago. huginn leads on adoption by 745% (50,269 vs 5,946 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; clockwork is written in PHP under MIT. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, clockwork 6%. 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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Side by side
| huginn | clockwork | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 5.9K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Ruby | PHP |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-08-29 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 332 |
| 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 clockwork if
- You want the clockwork feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches PHP
- You evaluated both and clockwork fits your workflow better
About huginn
What is Huginn? Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do. Here are some of the things that you can do with Huginn: Track the weather and get an email when it's going to rain (or snow) tomorrow ("Don't forget your umbrella!") List terms that you care about and receive email when their occurrence on…
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About clockwork
Clockwork is a development tool for PHP available right in your browser. Clockwork gives you an insight into your application runtime including request data, performance metrics, log entries, database queries, cache queries, redis commands, dispatched events, queued jobs, rendered views and more for HTTP requests, commands, queue jobs and tests. This repository contains the server side component of Clockwork. Check out on the Clockwork website for details. Installation Install the Clockwork library via Composer. Congratulations, you are done! To enable more features like commands or queue jobs profiling, publish…
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or clockwork more popular?
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars and clockwork has 5,946. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and clockwork free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and clockwork under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and clockwork?
huginn is written in Ruby and clockwork 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 clockwork?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (50,269 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose clockwork if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.