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huginn vs DoKit
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars, 4,298 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. DoKit has 20,415 stars, 3,183 forks, 275 open issues and last shipped 11 days ago. huginn leads on adoption by 145% (49,967 vs 20,415 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; DoKit is written in Java under Apache-2.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, DoKit 16%. huginn was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (monitoring), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
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 | DoKit | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 20K |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | Java |
| Last push | 2026-09-16 | 2026-09-07 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 3.2K |
| 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 DoKit if
- You want the DoKit feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Java
- You evaluated both and DoKit 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 DoKit
DoKit is an Apache 2.0 efficiency platform for the full research and development lifecycle of pan frontend products — Android, iOS, mini programs, Flutter and Web — built for mobile developers, test engineers and UI designers who want debugging, performance monitoring and visual inspection tooling inside a debug build instead of hand rolled into each application.
read the full DoKit overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or DoKit more popular?
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars and DoKit has 20,415. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and DoKit free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and DoKit under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and DoKit?
huginn is written in Ruby and DoKit in Java. 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 DoKit?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,967 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose DoKit if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.