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huginn vs open-multi-agent
huginn has 49,976 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped yesterday. open-multi-agent has 6,943 stars, 2,433 forks, 4 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. huginn leads on adoption by 620% (49,976 vs 6,943 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; open-multi-agent is written in TypeScript under MIT. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, open-multi-agent 35%. 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 | open-multi-agent | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 6.9K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | Ruby | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-09-19 | 2026-09-18 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 2.4K |
| 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 open-multi-agent if
- You want the open-multi-agent feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and open-multi-agent 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 open-multi-agent
OMA (Open Multi Agent) is a self hosted TypeScript agent runtime for teams that need consequential agent actions to wait for durable, tamper evident approvals and every run to leave a record that can be verified offline, byte for byte.
read the full open-multi-agent overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or open-multi-agent more popular?
huginn has 49,976 GitHub stars and open-multi-agent has 6,943. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and open-multi-agent free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and open-multi-agent under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and open-multi-agent?
huginn is written in Ruby and open-multi-agent 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 open-multi-agent?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,976 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose open-multi-agent if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.