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huginn vs LibreHardwareMonitor
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped today. LibreHardwareMonitor has 9,084 stars, 1,015 forks, 524 open issues and last shipped yesterday. huginn leads on adoption by 450% (49,969 vs 9,084 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; LibreHardwareMonitor is written in C# under MPL-2.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, LibreHardwareMonitor 11%. 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 | LibreHardwareMonitor | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 9.1K |
| License | MIT | MPL-2.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | C# |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 1.0K |
| 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 LibreHardwareMonitor if
- You want the LibreHardwareMonitor feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MPL-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches C#
- You evaluated both and LibreHardwareMonitor 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 LibreHardwareMonitor
LibreHardwareMonitor is a free, open source, MPL 2.0 licensed hardware monitoring application and .NET library that reads the temperature sensors, fan speeds, voltages, load and clock speeds of a computer's motherboard, processor, graphics cards, drives and network cards, aimed at Windows users who want that telemetry on screen and at C developers who want it inside their own applications.
read the full LibreHardwareMonitor overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or LibreHardwareMonitor more popular?
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars and LibreHardwareMonitor has 9,084. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and LibreHardwareMonitor free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and LibreHardwareMonitor under MPL-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and LibreHardwareMonitor?
huginn is written in Ruby and LibreHardwareMonitor in C#. 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 LibreHardwareMonitor?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,969 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose LibreHardwareMonitor if its feature set, stack or MPL-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.