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steampipe vs Seal-Report
steampipe has 7,957 GitHub stars, 341 forks, 17 open issues and last shipped 3 days ago. Seal-Report has 1,635 stars, 508 forks, 21 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. steampipe leads on adoption by 387% (7,957 vs 1,635 stars). steampipe is written in Go under AGPL-3.0; Seal-Report is written in C# under MIT. steampipe has attracted 4% as many forks as stars, Seal-Report 31%. Seal-Report was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (etl), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
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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| steampipe | Seal-Report | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 8.0K | ★ 1.6K |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Written in | Go | C# |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-18 |
| Forks | ⑂ 341 | ⑂ 508 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick steampipe if
- You weight community size — 8.0K stars and counting
- You want the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick Seal-Report if
- You want the Seal-Report feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches C#
- You evaluated both and Seal-Report fits your workflow better
About steampipe
Steampipe is an AGPL 3.0, Go based zero ETL tool that maps APIs and services to SQL tables, letting anyone who already writes SQL — cloud engineers, DevSecOps and security teams, data engineers — query live data from AWS, Azure, GCP, GitHub and Kubernetes without building a pipeline or running a database.
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About Seal-Report
Seal Report & Task is open source database reporting and task framework written in C for Microsoft .NET. It lives in Data & Analytics and Data Engineering & Integration. It targets reports from SQL and NoSQL sources, plus ETL and batch tasks. License is MIT.
read the full Seal-Report overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is steampipe or Seal-Report more popular?
steampipe has 7,957 GitHub stars and Seal-Report has 1,635. steampipe has the larger community by that measure.
Are steampipe and Seal-Report free?
Both are open source. steampipe is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and Seal-Report under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between steampipe and Seal-Report?
steampipe is written in Go and Seal-Report in C#. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, steampipe or Seal-Report?
Choose steampipe if you want the larger community (7,957 stars) or its AGPL-3.0 licence terms. Choose Seal-Report if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.