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huginn vs swift-metrics
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. swift-metrics has 795 stars, 81 forks, 8 open issues and last shipped 9 days ago. huginn leads on adoption by 6,185% (49,969 vs 795 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; swift-metrics is written in Swift under Apache-2.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, swift-metrics 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 | swift-metrics | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 795 |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | Swift |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-10 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 81 |
| 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 swift-metrics if
- You want the swift-metrics feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Swift
- You evaluated both and swift-metrics 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.
read the full huginn overview →
About swift-metrics
SwiftMetrics is the Apache 2.0 metrics API package for Swift, a shared abstraction that lets server side and cross platform Swift applications emit metrics for observability through whichever backend an application owner selects rather than tying emission code to a single library.
read the full swift-metrics overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or swift-metrics more popular?
huginn has 49,969 GitHub stars and swift-metrics has 795. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and swift-metrics free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and swift-metrics under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and swift-metrics?
huginn is written in Ruby and swift-metrics in Swift. 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 swift-metrics?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,969 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose swift-metrics if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.