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huginn vs Keep
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars, 4,298 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. Keep has 12,331 stars, 1,508 forks, 609 open issues and last shipped 5 days ago. huginn leads on adoption by 305% (49,967 vs 12,331 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; Keep is written in Python under a custom or non-standard licence. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, Keep 12%. huginn was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (monitoring), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
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 | Keep | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 12K |
| License | MIT | Custom / other |
| Written in | Ruby | Python |
| Last push | 2026-09-16 | 2026-09-13 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 1.5K |
| 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 Keep if
- You want the Keep feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You evaluated both and Keep 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 Keep
Keep is the open source AIOps and alert management platform: a Python based single pane of glass that unifies alerts and incidents, deduplicates and enriches them, and automates response through declarative YAML workflows, aimed at the SRE, platform and on call teams that operate many monitoring tools at once.
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or Keep more popular?
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars and Keep has 12,331. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and Keep free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT, and Keep has no licence declared in this registry. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between huginn and Keep?
huginn is written in Ruby and Keep in Python. 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 Keep?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,967 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose Keep if its feature set, stack or Custom / other licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.