Huginn
huginn/huginn
An open-source alternative to Make and Zapier.
Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Your agents are standing by! (from the repository)
- Stars
- 50,080
- Licence
- MIT
- Last push
- 2026-10-18
- Written in
- Ruby
Is it alive?
Four readings from the repository, each with the rule behind it. No blended score.
Activity
Active
Last push 10 days ago
Active: pushed within 90 days. Slowing: within a year. Quiet: longer.
Releases
Recent
v2026.10.14, 14 days ago
Recent: a tagged release within six months. Some projects ship from the main branch and never tag.
Issues
72% closed
610 open · 1,587 closed
Share of all issues ever filed that are now closed. Under 20 issues is too few to read.
Momentum
+82 in 9 days
50,080 stars
Change in stars across our daily readings, over up to 30 days. Needs a week of readings.
What a business may do with it
PermissiveMIT
Use, change and sell it, including inside a closed product. Keep the copyright notice.
This describes the licence family GitHub identified, not legal advice about this project. The repository’s own LICENSE file is what binds you.
Run it yourself
Docker, quoted from Huginn’s own README as written. We have not run it, and most projects expect you to set secrets or a database before production use.
docker run -it -p 3000:3000 ghcr.io/huginn/huginn
Huginn against the other open-source options
Every project offered against Make and Zapier, most-starred first.
| Project | Stars | Activity | Licence | Self-host | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 n8n | 207,981 | Active | Not identified | Docker | TypeScript |
 Huginn (this page) | 50,080 | Active | Permissive | Docker | Ruby |
 Temporal | 23,820 | Active | Permissive | ○ | Go |
 Automa | 21,666 | Slowing | Not identified | ○ | Vue |
 Automatisch | 13,999 | Slowing | Not identified | Compose | JavaScript |
 Pipedream | 11,752 | Active | Not identified | ○ | JavaScript |
 ActiveWorkflow | 863 | Quiet | Not identified | Docker | Ruby |
 Computir Cloud | 40 | Quiet | Not identified | ○ | TypeScript |
Where this page comes from
- Stars, licence, activity, issues, releases and the self-host command are read from the repository. 2026-10-19
- The pairing with Make and Zapier and the category come from opensourcealternative.to, a community directory of open-source alternatives. We re-read it weekly.
- Star momentum comes from our own daily readings of the repository. How we collect data