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wiki vs llm-wiki-agent
wiki has 28,937 GitHub stars, 3,314 forks, 182 open issues and last shipped yesterday. llm-wiki-agent has 3,530 stars, 404 forks, 4 open issues and last shipped yesterday. wiki leads on adoption by 720% (28,937 vs 3,530 stars). wiki is written in Vue under AGPL-3.0; llm-wiki-agent is written in Python under MIT. wiki has attracted 11% as many forks as stars, llm-wiki-agent 11%. llm-wiki-agent was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (markdown), 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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| wiki | llm-wiki-agent | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 29K | ★ 3.5K |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Written in | Vue | Python |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-09-17 |
| Forks | ⑂ 3.3K | ⑂ 404 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick wiki if
- You weight community size — 29K stars and counting
- You want the AGPL-3.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Vue
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick llm-wiki-agent if
- You want the llm-wiki-agent feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches Python
- You evaluated both and llm-wiki-agent fits your workflow better
About wiki
Wiki.js is a modern, lightweight wiki application built on NodeJS and distributed as open source under the AGPL 3.0 licence, aimed at teams and organisations that want to publish and maintain their own documentation and knowledge base rather than renting a hosted one.
About llm-wiki-agent
LLM Wiki Agent is a Python coding agent skill for building a personal knowledge base. It lives in the coding agent and personal knowledge base ecosystem, where Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Gemini CLI can read configuration files and run workflows. Users place source documents into a raw directory and ask the agent to ingest them. The agent reads the sources, extracts knowledge, and maintains a persistent interlinked markdown wiki.
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Frequently asked questions
Is wiki or llm-wiki-agent more popular?
wiki has 28,937 GitHub stars and llm-wiki-agent has 3,530. wiki has the larger community by that measure.
Are wiki and llm-wiki-agent free?
Both are open source. wiki is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and llm-wiki-agent under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between wiki and llm-wiki-agent?
wiki is written in Vue and llm-wiki-agent 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, wiki or llm-wiki-agent?
Choose wiki if you want the larger community (28,937 stars) or its AGPL-3.0 licence terms. Choose llm-wiki-agent if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.