# Huginn

> Open-source agents that watch the web and act, on your own server

Huginn is an open-source system, released under the MIT License, for building agents that read the web, watch for events and take actions for you. Agents create and consume events that pass along a directed graph, and the project describes itself as a hackable version of IFTTT or Zapier that runs on your own server. There is no hosted service: you install it yourself, most quickly with the official Docker image.

- **Category:** Automation
- **Made by:** Andrew Cantino and contributors (since 2013)
- **Website:** https://github.com/huginn/huginn
- **Runs on:** Web, Linux
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 5, 2026

## Pricing

Huginn is free to use.

- **Pricing model:** Free
- **Free plan:** Free and open source under the MIT License, with no paid edition. You install and run it yourself, so the only cost is the server or hosting plan it runs on.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Huginn | $0 | The whole project under the MIT License: the web interface, the built-in agents and support for agents added as Ruby gems. |

Read from https://github.com/huginn/huginn on Oct 5, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Huginn before buying.

## Key features

- **Agents and events:** Each agent does one job, such as checking a site or sending a message, and emits events that other agents consume. Chaining them forms a directed graph.
- **Website monitoring:** Agents can scrape websites and email you when a page changes, or watch for travel and shopping deals. The wiki covers browser emulation for pages that need JavaScript.
- **Digests and spike alerts:** Huginn can send a digest email at set times of day, and count high-frequency events so that an SMS goes out within moments of a spike.
- **Webhooks and custom JavaScript:** Agents send and receive webhooks and can run custom JavaScript functions, so services without a built-in agent can still be wired in.
- **Agent gems:** New agents can be written as external Ruby gems and loaded through the ADDITIONAL_GEMS environment variable, without changing the core repository.
- **Several ways to deploy:** There is an official Docker image, a manual installation guide for Ubuntu and Debian, OpenShift templates and a Heroku deploy button, which needs a paid Heroku plan.

## Good for

- Developers who want their automation data kept on a server they control
- Watching websites, feeds and search terms and getting alerts by email or SMS
- People comfortable with Docker or a Ruby on Rails deployment

## Worth knowing

- There is no hosted version: you install, update and back up Huginn yourself, with MySQL or PostgreSQL alongside it.
- Huginn does not run on Windows; the docs suggest a virtual machine. The manual install guide supports Ubuntu and Debian.
- The requirements page recommends 2 GB of RAM and a dual-core server.
- Agents are configured in the web interface with options and Liquid templates, and writing a new agent means writing Ruby.

## Works with

Slack, Twilio, Jira, Twitter, Pushover, Pushbullet, Weibo, Basecamp

**Tags:** Workflow automation, Open source, Self-hostable

## Alternatives

- [n8n](https://toolgpa.com/tools/n8n): Workflow automation and AI agents you can self-host. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/huginn-vs-n8n)
- [Node-RED](https://toolgpa.com/tools/node-red): Open-source, flow-based programming tool for event-driven apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/huginn-vs-node-red)
- [Activepieces](https://toolgpa.com/tools/activepieces): Open-source automation with flows, AI agents and tables. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/activepieces-vs-huginn)
- [IFTTT](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ifttt): Simple trigger-and-action automations for apps and smart devices. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/huginn-vs-ifttt)
- [Zapier](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zapier): Workflow automation across 9,000+ apps, with AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/huginn-vs-zapier)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 5, 2026:

- https://github.com/huginn/huginn
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huginn/huginn/master/README.md
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huginn/huginn/master/LICENSE
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huginn/huginn/master/doc/manual/README.md
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huginn/huginn/master/doc/manual/requirements.md
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huginn/huginn/master/doc/docker/install.md
- https://github.com/huginn/huginn/wiki

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