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huginn vs Wachd
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars, 4,298 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. Wachd has 38 stars, 5 forks, 5 open issues and last shipped yesterday. huginn leads on adoption by 131,392% (49,967 vs 38 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 13%. Wachd 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 | ★ 38 |
| License | MIT | Custom / other |
| Written in | Ruby | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-16 | 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
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 Wachd
Wachd is a self hosted, air gapped alert intelligence platform that uses AI to turn monitoring alerts from tools such as Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, and Splunk into a plain English root cause diagnosis for the on call engineer.
read the full Wachd overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or Wachd more popular?
huginn has 49,967 GitHub stars and Wachd has 38. 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 (49,967 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose Wachd if its feature set, stack or Custom / other licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.