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huginn vs Microsoft365DSC
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Microsoft365DSC has 2,393 stars, 677 forks, 66 open issues and last shipped yesterday. huginn leads on adoption by 1,988% (49,969 vs 2,393 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; Microsoft365DSC is written in PowerShell under MIT. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, Microsoft365DSC 28%. Microsoft365DSC 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 | Microsoft365DSC | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 2.4K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Ruby | PowerShell |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-18 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 677 |
| 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 Microsoft365DSC if
- You want the Microsoft365DSC feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches PowerShell
- You evaluated both and Microsoft365DSC 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 Microsoft365DSC
Microsoft365DSC is a PowerShell Desired State Configuration module that automates the deployment, configuration, extraction, reporting and monitoring of Microsoft 365 tenant settings, and it is built for Microsoft 365 administrators and DevOps teams who want tenant configuration managed as code rather than by hand in individual admin portals.
read the full Microsoft365DSC overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or Microsoft365DSC more popular?
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars and Microsoft365DSC has 2,393. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and Microsoft365DSC free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and Microsoft365DSC under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and Microsoft365DSC?
huginn is written in Ruby and Microsoft365DSC in PowerShell. 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 Microsoft365DSC?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,969 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose Microsoft365DSC if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.