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huginn vs grimoirelab
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. grimoirelab has 626 stars, 231 forks, 78 open issues and last shipped 3 days ago. huginn leads on adoption by 7,882% (49,969 vs 626 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; grimoirelab is written in Shell under GPL-3.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, grimoirelab 37%. 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 | grimoirelab | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 626 |
| License | MIT | GPL-3.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | Shell |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-16 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 231 |
| 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 grimoirelab if
- You want the grimoirelab feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the GPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Shell
- You evaluated both and grimoirelab 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 grimoirelab
GrimoireLab is a GPL 3.0 licensed CHAOSS toolset for software development analytics that retrieves data from the systems used to support software development, stores it in databases, enriches it by computing metrics, and makes it available for analytics and visualization, aimed at the people who need to measure development activity rather than guess at it.
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or grimoirelab more popular?
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars and grimoirelab has 626. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and grimoirelab free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and grimoirelab under GPL-3.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and grimoirelab?
huginn is written in Ruby and grimoirelab in Shell. 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 grimoirelab?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,969 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose grimoirelab if its feature set, stack or GPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.