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n8n vs Huginn
Pick n8n if you want a visual iPaaS with a large node library. Pick Huginn if you want MIT agents that scrape, watch RSS, and fire webhooks without n8n's fair-code license.
Facts checked 17 Oct 2026. License, language, and GitHub activity come from the catalog or the project's own repo. "Not in the catalog row" means the public catalog dump does not store that number.
n8n in the catalog Huginn in the catalog
How they compare
| n8n | Huginn | |
|---|---|---|
| License | Sustainable Use License (fair-code) source | MIT (catalog) source |
| Language | TypeScript source | Ruby (huginn/huginn; catalog license field is MIT) source |
| GitHub activity | 207,775 stars on 17 Oct 2026 (not in the catalog row) source | Public MIT repo; star count is not listed in the catalog source |
| Self-host | n8nio/n8n + Postgres + volume. | Docker / Heroku / OpenShift as documented on the Huginn repo. |
| Best for | Team workflows and the biggest node library. | Watchers and personal agents rather than a visual iPaaS. |
Self-hosting and resource needs
n8n wants the official image, Postgres, and a volume. Huginn is a Ruby app you run with Docker or on a PaaS; the catalog row points at github.com/huginn/huginn (MIT). Huginn is the lighter personal-agent path on the n8n stack page — not a second Railway template.
FAQ
- Is Huginn a Zapier clone?
- No. Huginn is an agent graph: scrape, watch a feed, fire a webhook. n8n is the visual iPaaS. That split is how /best/workflow-automation ranks them.
- Which license is OSI?
- Huginn is MIT. n8n is fair-code (Sustainable Use License).
- Does Huginn have a c17 Railway template?
- No. The published templates are n8n and Activepieces. Huginn is named on the n8n stack as the MIT personal-agent box.
- When is Huginn enough?
- When the job is IFTTT-shaped applets — RSS, scrape, notify — and you do not want a team workflow editor.
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