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huginn vs eliot
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars, 4,339 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. eliot has 1,189 stars, 75 forks, 120 open issues and last shipped 6 months ago. huginn leads on adoption by 4,128% (50,269 vs 1,189 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; eliot is written in Python under Apache-2.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, eliot 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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| huginn | eliot | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 1.2K |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | Python |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-05-07 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 75 |
| 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 eliot if
- You want the eliot feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You evaluated both and eliot 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 eliot
Eliot: Logging that tells you why it happened ================================================ Python's built in logging and other similar systems output a stream of factoids: they're interesting, but you can't really tell what's going on. Why is your application slow? What caused this code path to be chosen? Why did this error happen? Standard logging can't answer these questions. But with a better model you could understand what and why things happened in your application. You could pinpoint performance bottlenecks, you could understand what happened when, who called what. That is what Eliot does. eliot is a…
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or eliot more popular?
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars and eliot has 1,189. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and eliot free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and eliot under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and eliot?
huginn is written in Ruby and eliot in Python. 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 eliot?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (50,269 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose eliot if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.