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huginn vs grimoirelab
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars, 4,339 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. grimoirelab has 639 stars, 234 forks, 78 open issues and last shipped 6 days ago. huginn leads on adoption by 7,767% (50,269 vs 639 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 | ★ 639 |
| License | MIT | GPL-3.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | Shell |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-10-28 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 234 |
| 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
What is Huginn? Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do. Here are some of the things that you can do with Huginn: Track the weather and get an email when it's going to rain (or snow) tomorrow ("Don't forget your umbrella!") List terms that you care about and receive email when their occurrence on…
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About grimoirelab
GrimoireLab GrimoireLab is a CHAOSS toolset for software development analytics. It includes a coordinated set of tools to retrieve data from systems used to support software development (repositories), store it in databases, enrich it by computing relevant metrics, and make it easy to run analytics and visualizations on it. You can learn more about GrimoireLab in the GrimoireLab tutorial, or visit the GrimoireLab website. Metrics available in GrimoireLab are, in part, developed in the CHAOSS project. For more information regarding CHAOSS metrics, see the latest release at: Getting started To ease the newcomer…
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or grimoirelab more popular?
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars and grimoirelab has 639. 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 (50,269 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose grimoirelab if its feature set, stack or GPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.