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huginn vs phoenix_live_dashboard
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped today. phoenix_live_dashboard has 2,171 stars, 207 forks, 17 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. huginn leads on adoption by 2,202% (49,969 vs 2,171 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; phoenix_live_dashboard is written in Elixir under MIT. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, phoenix_live_dashboard 10%. 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 | phoenix_live_dashboard | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 2.2K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Ruby | Elixir |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-16 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 207 |
| 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 phoenix_live_dashboard if
- You want the phoenix_live_dashboard feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Elixir
- You evaluated both and phoenix_live_dashboard 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 phoenix_live_dashboard
Phoenix LiveDashboard Online Documentation. LiveDashboard provides real time performance monitoring and debugging tools for Phoenix developers. It provides the following modules: Home See general information about the system OS Data See general information about OS, such as CPU, Memory and Disk usage Metrics See how your application performs under different conditions by visualizing :telemetry events with real time charts Request logging See everything that was logged for certain requests Applications See, filter, and search applications in the current node and view their processes in a supervision tree Processes…
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or phoenix_live_dashboard more popular?
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars and phoenix_live_dashboard has 2,171. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and phoenix_live_dashboard free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and phoenix_live_dashboard under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and phoenix_live_dashboard?
huginn is written in Ruby and phoenix_live_dashboard in Elixir. 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 phoenix_live_dashboard?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,969 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose phoenix_live_dashboard if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.