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huginn vs GoModel
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. GoModel has 1,167 stars, 101 forks, 80 open issues and last shipped yesterday. huginn leads on adoption by 4,182% (49,969 vs 1,167 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; GoModel is written in Go under MIT. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, GoModel 9%. GoModel 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 | GoModel | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 1.2K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Ruby | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-18 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 101 |
| 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 GoModel if
- You want the GoModel feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and GoModel 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 GoModel
GoModel is an MIT licensed AI gateway, control plane and proxy written in Go that exposes one OpenAI compatible endpoint at /v1 and one Anthropic compatible endpoint at /v1/messages in front of OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, xAI, Ollama, vLLM and many other providers, for teams that run their own LLM traffic and want routing, caching, spend control and observability in a single self hosted service.
read the full GoModel overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or GoModel more popular?
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars and GoModel has 1,167. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and GoModel free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and GoModel under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and GoModel?
huginn is written in Ruby and GoModel in Go. 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 GoModel?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,969 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose GoModel if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.