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Trigger vs openchoreo
Trigger has 16,345 GitHub stars, 1,464 forks, 342 open issues and last shipped today. openchoreo has 1,576 stars, 249 forks, 269 open issues and last shipped yesterday. Trigger leads on adoption by 937% (16,345 vs 1,576 stars). Trigger is written in TypeScript under Apache-2.0; openchoreo is written in Go under Apache-2.0. Trigger has attracted 9% as many forks as stars, openchoreo 16%. Trigger was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 2 topic tags (ai-agents, mcp), 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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| Trigger | openchoreo | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 16K | ★ 1.6K |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | TypeScript | Go |
| Last push | 2026-09-20 | 2026-09-19 |
| Forks | ⑂ 1.5K | ⑂ 249 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Trigger if
- You weight community size — 16K stars and counting
- You want the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick openchoreo if
- You want the openchoreo feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You evaluated both and openchoreo fits your workflow better
About Trigger
Trigger is an open source TypeScript platform for building and deploying AI agents and workflow tasks. It lives in the infrastructure, orchestration, and scheduling ecosystem, and it is positioned as a way to run long running AI tasks without typical serverless timeout constraints. The project provides a software development kit, a deployment target, and operational features such as retries, queues, observability, and elastic scaling.
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About openchoreo
OpenChoreo is an open source internal developer platform for Kubernetes. It is built for developers, platform engineers, and AI agents that need to build, deploy, and operate applications, resources, and agentic workloads on Kubernetes. The project lives in the Kubernetes ecosystem and is described as a complete developer platform rather than a collection of separate tools.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Trigger or openchoreo more popular?
Trigger has 16,345 GitHub stars and openchoreo has 1,576. Trigger has the larger community by that measure.
Are Trigger and openchoreo free?
Both are open source. Trigger is licensed under Apache-2.0 and openchoreo under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Trigger and openchoreo?
Trigger is written in TypeScript and openchoreo 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, Trigger or openchoreo?
Choose Trigger if you want the larger community (16,345 stars) or its Apache-2.0 licence terms. Choose openchoreo if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.