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Haystack vs N8n
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
Haystack
Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.
25.2K
Stars
+73
Weekly
79/100
Health
N8n
Fair-code workflow automation platform with native AI capabilities. Combine visual building with custom code, self-host or cloud, 400+ integrations.
187.5K
Stars
0
Weekly
67/100
Health
Quick Take
Adoption
N8n has the larger GitHub footprint with 187.5K stars.
Momentum
Haystack is currently growing faster at +73 stars this week.
Maintenance
Haystack has the stronger health score at 79/100.
Side-by-side Metrics
| Signal | Haystack | N8n |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 25.2K | 187.5K |
| Weekly growth | +73 | 0 |
| Health score | 79 | 67 |
| Contributors | 355 | 629 |
| Commits per week | 36.4 | 143.4 |
| Open issues | 115 | 1.5K |
| Language | MDX | TypeScript |
| License | Apache-2.0 | NOASSERTION |
| Last commit | 16h ago | 15h ago |
| Last release | v2.28.0 | stable |
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