Huginn
Build agents that monitor and act on your behalf.
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Still maintained? Yes: 197 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v2026.10.26 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Zapier.
At a glance
Huginn quick facts
- Health score
- 89/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 50,199
- Last commit
- 4 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v2026.10.26, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
Top alternatives to Huginn
Full rankings: Zapier alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn's Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier on your own server. You always know who has your data. You do."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Huginn scores 89/100, #15 of 32 in Automation: 197 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v2026.10.26, 4 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 50,199 stars add 18.8 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
197 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v2026.10.26 released 4 days ago
- Stars 18.8 / 20
50k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 197
- Last 90 days
- 468
- Last 12 months
- 4 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #15 of 32 tools in Automation by health , between n8n (#14) and Cronicle (#16) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Ruby |
| Latest release | v2026.10.26 · 4 days ago |
| Stars | 50,199 |
| Open issues | 607 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | huginn/huginn ↗ |
Huginn vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Huginn (Automation), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Airflow | 99 | 47k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Activepieces | 98 | 25k | MIT | today |
| Kestra | 98 | 30k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| n8n | 90 | 209k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Huginn (this tool) | 89 | 50k | MIT | 4 days ago |
| Automatisch | 49 | 14k | AGPL-3.0 | 9 months ago |
Huginn: common questions
What does Huginn replace?
Repoly lists Huginn as an open-source alternative to Zapier. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Huginn stands against the others.
Is Huginn still maintained?
Huginn had 197 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 4 days ago; the latest tagged release, v2026.10.26, is from 4 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.