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Home Assistant vs openHAB vs Node-RED
A side-by-side look at how actively Home Assistant, openHAB and Node-RED are developed on GitHub — popularity, contributor base, commit activity and how quickly issues and pull requests move.
What the numbers say
- Home Assistant is the most-starred of the 3, with 91k stars — about 79.7× openHAB's 1.1k.
- Over the 52 weeks to the snapshot, Home Assistant recorded the most commits (18k), against 537 for openHAB.
- Home Assistant has closed or merged the most pull requests in its lifetime: 107k.
- Relative to its popularity, Node-RED carries the lightest open-issue load: 9.4 open issues per 1,000 stars, versus 277.1 for openHAB.
Head-to-head
Snapshot taken 30 September 2026.
| Metric | Home Assistant Active | openHAB Slowing | Node-RED Active |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 91k | 1.1k | 24k |
| Forks | 39k | 472 | 3.9k |
| Contributors | 5.9k | 155 | 285 |
| Commits, last 52 weeks | 18k | 537 | 942 |
| Open issues | 2.6k | 317 | 222 |
| Open pull requests | 977 | 64 | 132 |
| Closed / merged PRs | 107k | 3.8k | 2.9k |
| Watchers | 1.4k | 48 | 532 |
| Last push | 30 Sep 2026 | 29 Sep 2026 | 18 Sep 2026 |
| Latest release | 2026.9.4 (Sep 2026) | none published | 5.0.7 (Sep 2026) |
| Main language | Python | Java | JavaScript |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | EPL-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Created | Sep 2013 | Dec 2015 | Sep 2013 |
The wide bar is that repository’s share of the largest value in its own row — half the length means half the number. The thin gauge beneath it is the same row rescaled from its smallest value to its largest, which makes a close gap such as 61k against 59k visible; on that gauge the row’s lowest value always sits at zero however big it is, so read it as a spread and never as a quantity. Bars compare repositories with each other and never one metric against another. Colour identifies the repository, matching the dot beside its name. On the two issue rows a longer bar means more open work, which is usually the opposite of better. The highlighted cell is the highest value in a row. “Active / Slowing / Dormant” is a simple heuristic from how recently code was pushed and open issues per star — a starting point, not a verdict. Stars measure popularity, not quality.
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