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cadence vs teslamate
cadence has 9,446 GitHub stars, 915 forks, 205 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. teslamate has 9,008 stars, 1,006 forks, 72 open issues and last shipped yesterday. cadence leads on adoption by 5% (9,446 vs 9,008 stars). cadence is written in Go under Apache-2.0; teslamate is written in Elixir under AGPL-3.0. cadence has attracted 10% as many forks as stars, teslamate 11%. teslamate 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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| cadence | teslamate | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 9.4K | ★ 9.0K |
| License | Apache-2.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| Written in | Go | Elixir |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-19 |
| Forks | ⑂ 915 | ⑂ 1.0K |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick cadence if
- You weight community size — 9.4K stars and counting
- You want the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick teslamate if
- You want the teslamate feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Elixir
- You evaluated both and teslamate fits your workflow better
About cadence
Cadence is an open source orchestration engine for running asynchronous, long running business logic in a fault tolerant way. Written in Go under the Apache 2.0 license, it lives in the distributed systems and workflow automation space, and the project has been open source since 2017. This repository holds the core engine plus supporting tools: the CLI, schema management, a benchmark suite, and a canary. Client libraries for Go and Java are official, while Python and Ruby SDKs come from the community, and iWF can be layered on top as a DSL framework.
read the full cadence overview →
About teslamate
TeslaMate is an open source, self hosted data logger that records and visualises data from Tesla vehicles, built for Tesla owners who want their driving, charging and battery history to live on their own infrastructure instead of inside a third party service.
read the full teslamate overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is cadence or teslamate more popular?
cadence has 9,446 GitHub stars and teslamate has 9,008. cadence has the larger community by that measure.
Are cadence and teslamate free?
Both are open source. cadence is licensed under Apache-2.0 and teslamate under AGPL-3.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between cadence and teslamate?
cadence is written in Go and teslamate in Elixir. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, cadence or teslamate?
Choose cadence if you want the larger community (9,446 stars) or its Apache-2.0 licence terms. Choose teslamate if its feature set, stack or AGPL-3.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.