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huginn vs Peekaping
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars, 4,298 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. Peekaping has 1,191 stars, 69 forks, 92 open issues and last shipped 4 months ago. huginn leads on adoption by 4,095% (49,967 vs 1,191 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; Peekaping is written in Go under MIT. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, Peekaping 6%. 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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Side by side
| huginn | Peekaping | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 1.2K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Ruby | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-16 | 2026-05-24 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 69 |
| 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 Peekaping if
- You want the Peekaping feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and Peekaping 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 Peekaping
Peekaping is a self hosted uptime monitoring system built with Go on the server and React with TypeScript in the browser, released under the MIT license. It lives in the open source infrastructure and monitoring ecosystem as a direct alternative to Uptime Kuma, and it tracks the availability of websites, APIs, and other network services through a range of monitor types. The project ships with a web interface, status pages, and an alerting layer that can notify operators through many channels when a check fails. It is distributed primarily as Docker images and is documented at peekaping.com, with a live demo and a…
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or Peekaping more popular?
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars and Peekaping has 1,191. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and Peekaping free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and Peekaping under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and Peekaping?
huginn is written in Ruby and Peekaping in Go. 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 Peekaping?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,967 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose Peekaping if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.