Huginn vs Skyvern
Huginn and Skyvern are both workflow automation software. Huginn is open source under MIT, with 50k GitHub stars. Skyvern is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 23k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Huginn when
- You want IFTTT-style monitoring and automations on your own server and are comfortable with Rails.
- Pick Skyvern when
- You need to automate tasks across many websites without APIs, such as portals, quotes or applications, and selector-based scripts keep breaking.
Side by side
A self-hosted automation system where agents watch websites, feeds and APIs, and react by sending notifications or calling other services.
Automates browser workflows with LLMs and computer vision, filling forms and navigating sites from instructions rather than brittle selectors.
The UI is dated, and building agents takes JSON configuration rather than a visual editor.
AGPL license, LLM costs per run, and results are less predictable than scripted automation.
Production-ready
Usable
Self-hosted server
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL and MySQL
Python, TypeScript, Playwright and PostgreSQL
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
50k GitHub stars
23k GitHub stars
Established: started 13 years ago, latest release v2026.11.01.
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v1.0.56.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.