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huginn vs opensre
huginn has 49,976 GitHub stars, 4,299 forks, 698 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. opensre has 11,150 stars, 1,627 forks, 67 open issues and last shipped yesterday. huginn leads on adoption by 348% (49,976 vs 11,150 stars). huginn is written in Ruby under MIT; opensre is written in Python under Apache-2.0. huginn has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, opensre 15%. opensre 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 | opensre | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 50K | ★ 11K |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Ruby | Python |
| Last push | 2026-09-19 | 2026-09-20 |
| Forks | ⑂ 4.3K | ⑂ 1.6K |
| 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 opensre if
- You want the opensre feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You evaluated both and opensre 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 opensre
OpenSRE is an open source Python framework for building AI SRE agents, distributed under the Apache 2.0 license. It lives in the infrastructure and operations ecosystem, specifically the monitoring and observability space, and it describes itself as the toolkit for AI era site reliability engineering. The project is currently at v0.1 and is published as a public alpha, meaning the core workflows are usable for early exploration but are not yet fully stable, and both APIs and integrations may evolve as development continues.
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Frequently asked questions
Is huginn or opensre more popular?
huginn has 49,976 GitHub stars and opensre has 11,150. huginn has the larger community by that measure.
Are huginn and opensre free?
Both are open source. huginn is licensed under MIT and opensre under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between huginn and opensre?
huginn is written in Ruby and opensre in Python. 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 opensre?
Choose huginn if you want the larger community (49,976 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose opensre if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.