n8n-io/n8n vs siyuan-note/siyuan
n8n-io/n8n shows stronger signals overall
As of June 2026, n8n shows healthier maintenance signals than siyuan. n8n rates Healthy overall while siyuan rates Mixed. n8n was committed to today with 42+ active contributors, while siyuan last saw a commit 1 month ago with 5+ active contributors. n8n is Other-licensed while siyuan is AGPL-3.0-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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n8n-io/n8n →
Healthy across the board
non-standard license (Other)
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Non-standard license (Other) — review terms
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓42+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 13% of recent commits)
- ✓Other licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: clarify license terms
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
siyuan-note/siyuan →
Mixed signals — read the receipts
copyleft license (AGPL-3.0) — review compatibility; no tests detected
Has a license, tests, and CI — clean foundation to fork and modify.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
No critical CVEs, sane security posture — runnable as-is.
- ⚠Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 51% of recent commits
- ⚠AGPL-3.0 is copyleft — check downstream compatibility
- ⚠No test directory detected
- ✓Last commit today
- ✓5 active contributors
- ✓AGPL-3.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
What would improve this?
- →Use as dependency Concerns → Mixed if: relicense under MIT/Apache-2.0 (rare for established libs)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| n8n | siyuan | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 194,262 | 43,729 |
| Last commit | today | 1mo ago |
| License | Other | AGPL-3.0 |
| Open issues | 1,482 | 339 |
| Has tests | ✓ | — |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 100% | 0% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | — | — |
| Cycles | — | — |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Mixed signals |
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