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huginn vs parca
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars, 4,339 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. parca has 5,007 stars, 271 forks, 206 open issues and last shipped yesterday. huginn leads on adoption by 904% (50,269 vs 5,007 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; parca is written in TypeScript under Apache-2.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, parca 5%. 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 | parca | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 5.0K |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-11-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 271 |
| 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 parca if
- You want the parca feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and parca 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 parca
Continuous profiling for analysis of CPU, memory usage over time, and down to the line number. Saving infrastructure cost, improving performance, and increasing reliability. Features eBPF Profiler : A single profiler, using eBPF, automatically discovering targets from Kubernetes or systemd across the entire infrastructure with very low overhead. Supports C, C++, Rust, Go, and more! Open Standards : Both producing pprof formatted profiles with the eBPF based profiler, and ingesting any pprof formatted profiles allowing for wide language adoption and interoperability with existing tooling. Optimized Storage &…
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or parca more popular?
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars and parca has 5,007. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and parca free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and parca under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and parca?
huginn is written in Ruby and parca in TypeScript. 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 parca?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (50,269 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose parca if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.