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huginn vs FASTER
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars, 4,298 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. FASTER has 6,636 stars, 596 forks, 36 open issues and last shipped 1 months ago. huginn leads on adoption by 653% (49,967 vs 6,636 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; FASTER is written in C# under MIT. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, FASTER 9%. 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 | FASTER | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 6.6K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Ruby | C# |
| Last push | 2026-09-16 | 2026-08-19 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 596 |
| 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 FASTER if
- You want the FASTER feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches C#
- You evaluated both and FASTER 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 FASTER
FASTER is an open source project from Microsoft that provides a fast persistent recoverable log and key value store plus cache, implemented in C and C++. It lives in the .NET ecosystem, with a parallel C++ implementation of the key value component, and is distributed primarily through the NuGet package Microsoft.FASTER.Core. The repository carries the MIT license and the project has been in development for roughly eight years, with topics covering concurrent and multi threaded operation, hash tables, indexing, key value storage, logging, persistence, and recoverability.
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or FASTER more popular?
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars and FASTER has 6,636. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and FASTER free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and FASTER under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and FASTER?
huginn is written in Ruby and FASTER 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 FASTER?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,967 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose FASTER if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.