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huginn vs ProxMenux
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. ProxMenux has 2,978 stars, 155 forks, 15 open issues and last shipped yesterday. huginn leads on adoption by 1,578% (49,969 vs 2,978 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; ProxMenux is written in TypeScript under GPL-3.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, ProxMenux 5%. ProxMenux 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 | ProxMenux | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 3.0K |
| License | MIT | GPL-3.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-18 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 155 |
| 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 ProxMenux if
- You want the ProxMenux feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the GPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and ProxMenux 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 ProxMenux
ProxMenux is a menu driven Proxmox VE toolkit, licensed GPL 3.0, that pairs an interactive terminal interface for post install and backup/restore work with a self hosted web dashboard for continuous health monitoring, built for homelab operators who run Proxmox on their own hardware.
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or ProxMenux more popular?
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars and ProxMenux has 2,978. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and ProxMenux free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and ProxMenux under GPL-3.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and ProxMenux?
huginn is written in Ruby and ProxMenux 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 ProxMenux?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,969 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose ProxMenux if its feature set, stack or GPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.