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huginn vs Exceptionless
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped today. Exceptionless has 2,455 stars, 507 forks, 66 open issues and last shipped today. huginn leads on adoption by 1,935% (49,969 vs 2,455 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; Exceptionless is written in C# under Apache-2.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, Exceptionless 21%. 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 | Exceptionless | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 2.5K |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | C# |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-18 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 507 |
| 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 Exceptionless if
- You want the Exceptionless feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches C#
- You evaluated both and Exceptionless 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 Exceptionless
The definition of the word exceptionless is: to be without exception. Exceptionless provides real time error reporting for your JavaScript, Node, .NET Core, ASP.NET, Web API, WebForms, WPF, Console, and MVC apps. It organizes the gathered information into simple actionable data that will help your app become exceptionless! ⭐️ We appreciate your star, it helps! Using Exceptionless Refer to the Exceptionless documentation. Hosting Options We provide very reasonably priced hosting at Exceptionless. By using our hosted service, you are supporting the project and helping it get better! We also provide set up and suppo…
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or Exceptionless more popular?
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars and Exceptionless has 2,455. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and Exceptionless free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and Exceptionless under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and Exceptionless?
huginn is written in Ruby and Exceptionless in C#. 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 Exceptionless?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,969 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose Exceptionless if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.