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huginn vs graphite-web
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars, 4,298 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. graphite-web has 6,118 stars, 1,255 forks, 25 open issues and last shipped 11 days ago. huginn leads on adoption by 717% (49,967 vs 6,118 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; graphite-web is written in JavaScript under Apache-2.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, graphite-web 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 | graphite-web | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 6.1K |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | JavaScript |
| Last push | 2026-09-16 | 2026-09-07 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 1.3K |
| 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 graphite-web if
- You want the graphite-web feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches JavaScript
- You evaluated both and graphite-web 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 graphite-web
Graphite Web is the Django based web application that renders graphs and dashboards for the Graphite monitoring stack, aimed at infrastructure and operations teams who collect time series metrics and need to visualise them.
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or graphite-web more popular?
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars and graphite-web has 6,118. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and graphite-web free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and graphite-web under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and graphite-web?
huginn is written in Ruby and graphite-web in JavaScript. 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 graphite-web?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,967 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose graphite-web if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.