head to head · open source
huginn vs Wachd
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars, 4,339 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Wachd has 42 stars, 5 forks, 5 open issues and last shipped 2 months ago. huginn leads on adoption by 119,588% (50,269 vs 42 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; Wachd is written in Go under a custom or non-standard licence. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, Wachd 12%. 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 | Wachd | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 42 |
| License | MIT | Custom / other |
| Written in | Ruby | Go |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 5 |
| 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 Wachd if
- You want the Wachd feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and Wachd fits your workflow better
About huginn
What is Huginn? Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do. Here are some of the things that you can do with Huginn: Track the weather and get an email when it's going to rain (or snow) tomorrow ("Don't forget your umbrella!") List terms that you care about and receive email when their occurrence on…
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About Wachd
Wachd Self hosted alert intelligence platform with root cause analysis. Wachd receives alerts from your monitoring tools (Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus) and automatically collects context, sanitizes PII, correlates events, and routes a plain English diagnosis to the on call engineer. If Wachd is useful to you, a ⭐ on GitHub helps other engineers find it. Try the live demo → — no install, no cluster, sandbox from just an email. Founders Program — 10 lifetime SMB licenses We're giving 10 engineering teams a lifetime Wachd SMB license at no cost. Deploy it, use it seriously, tell us what's broken. Claim a slot on…
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or Wachd more popular?
huginn has 50,269 GitHub stars and Wachd has 42. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and Wachd free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT, and Wachd has no licence declared in this registry. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between huginn and Wachd?
huginn is written in Ruby and Wachd 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 Wachd?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (50,269 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose Wachd if its feature set, stack or Custom / other licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.