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huginn vs StatusScout
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars, 4,298 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. StatusScout has 15 stars, 2 forks, 3 open issues and last shipped 4 months ago. huginn leads on adoption by 333,013% (49,967 vs 15 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; StatusScout is written in JavaScript under a custom or non-standard licence. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, StatusScout 13%. 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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| huginn | StatusScout | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 15 |
| License | MIT | Custom / other |
| Written in | Ruby | JavaScript |
| Last push | 2026-09-16 | 2026-05-23 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 2 |
| 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 StatusScout if
- You want the StatusScout feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches JavaScript
- You evaluated both and StatusScout 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 StatusScout
StatusScout is a self hosted, source available website health and security monitor that schedules checks on security headers, SSL/TLS certificates, DNS records, exposed files and related weaknesses and alerts when something breaks, built for developers, operators and small teams who want that coverage without handing scan data to a hosted service.
read the full StatusScout overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or StatusScout more popular?
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars and StatusScout has 15. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and StatusScout free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT, and StatusScout has no licence declared in this registry. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between huginn and StatusScout?
huginn is written in Ruby and StatusScout in JavaScript. 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 StatusScout?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,967 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose StatusScout if its feature set, stack or Custom / other licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.