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huginn vs hubble
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars, 4,298 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. hubble has 4,332 stars, 300 forks, 44 open issues and last shipped 3 days ago. huginn leads on adoption by 1,053% (49,967 vs 4,332 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; hubble is written in Makefile under Apache-2.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, hubble 7%. 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 | hubble | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 4.3K |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | Makefile |
| Last push | 2026-09-16 | 2026-09-15 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 300 |
| 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 hubble if
- You want the hubble feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Makefile
- You evaluated both and hubble 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 hubble
Hubble is fully distributed networking and security observability platform for cloud native workloads. It lives in Kubernetes ecosystem, built on Cilium and eBPF. It gives transparent visibility into service communication, service behavior, and networking infrastructure.
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or hubble more popular?
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars and hubble has 4,332. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and hubble free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and hubble under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and hubble?
huginn is written in Ruby and hubble in Makefile. 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 hubble?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,967 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose hubble if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.