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Hatchet vs Incus
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Hatchet and Incus — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Hatchet vs Incus: at a glance
What is Hatchet?
Hatchet adds magic-link login and publishes its CLI on npm.
Hatchet v0.116.14 adds magic-link login, with an explicit Sign in click so email link scanners cannot spend the token. v0.116.10 publishes the Go CLI on npm as @hatchet-dev/cli with no postinstall download, and Python SDK 1.45.0 drops the synchronous streams reset. The rest of the week was migration renames and cleanup after session rotation and alerting fixes.
What is Incus?
Incus 7.6 fixes 18 security issues, eight critical, and adds SR-IOV NIC live migration
Incus 7.6, released October 30, carries 18 security fixes, eight rated critical, many of them about restricted projects reaching the default project or the host, plus an authentication bypass through unverified client certificate chains. Its features aim at larger environments: live migration for VMs using SR-IOV NICs, multifd for VM live migration, cluster healing options, compression for block volumes, and OIDC opaque tokens. 7.5 before it added live migration between projects, cluster metrics and NVIDIA GPU cliques. The 7.0 LTS branch received a second patch, 7.0.2, with no described changes.
Hatchet vs Incus: editorial side-by-side
Hatchet
6.3INFRA · APIS
Hatchet adds magic-link login and publishes its CLI on npm.
◆ Current state
Hatchet v0.116.14 adds magic-link login, with an explicit Sign in click so email link scanners cannot spend the token. v0.116.10 publishes the Go CLI on npm as @hatchet-dev/cli with no postinstall download, and Python SDK 1.45.0 drops the synchronous streams reset. The rest of the week was migration renames and cleanup after session rotation and alerting fixes.
◆ Where it's heading
After launching durable streams in late October, Hatchet is working on getting started and signing in: an npm-installable CLI wired into onboarding, passwordless login, audit log tables. The engine side is being tidied, with migrations renamed and streams APIs made async-only.
◆ Prediction
Expect more onboarding work around the npm CLI and the audit log tables to surface as a feature in the dashboard.
Incus
5.0INFRA · APIS
Incus 7.6 fixes 18 security issues, eight critical, and adds SR-IOV NIC live migration
◆ Current state
Incus 7.6, released October 30, carries 18 security fixes, eight rated critical, many of them about restricted projects reaching the default project or the host, plus an authentication bypass through unverified client certificate chains. Its features aim at larger environments: live migration for VMs using SR-IOV NICs, multifd for VM live migration, cluster healing options, compression for block volumes, and OIDC opaque tokens. 7.5 before it added live migration between projects, cluster metrics and NVIDIA GPU cliques. The 7.0 LTS branch received a second patch, 7.0.2, with no described changes.
◆ Where it's heading
Live migration is still the through-line: 7.4 made it near-live for dependent disks, 7.5 took it across projects, and 7.6 extends it to VMs using SR-IOV NICs. The other thread is multi-tenancy under scrutiny. The size of the 7.6 security batch, with several critical items in project isolation, shows that restricted projects are now being tested as a real boundary, and the release adds a build and threat model for Anthropic's OSS Scanner.
◆ Prediction
Expect a 7.6.x patch or further security fixes, because the project-isolation findings cover a wide surface. The monthly feature cadence should continue with more live-migration throughput work, given multifd and the throughput improvements in this release.
Alternatives to Hatchet and Incus
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Recent activity from Hatchet and Incus
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1h agoHatchetHatchet v0.116.14 adds magic-link login
- 16h agoHatchetHatchet v0.116.13 renames engine migrations
- 16h agoHatchetHatchet v0.116.12 stops writing additional metadata
- 18h agoHatchetHatchet CLI published on npm as @hatchet-dev/cli
- 21h agoHatchetHatchet v0.116.11-alpha.0 streams polling prerelease
- 22h agoHatchetPython SDK 1.45.0 removes synchronous streams reset
- 5d agoIncus18 security fixes, SR-IOV NIC live migration and multifd
- 19d agoIncusSecond patch on the 7.0 LTS branch
- 1mo agoIncusLive migration across projects, cluster metrics, NVIDIA GPU cliques
- 2mo agoIncusIncus 7.4 adds near-live migration and Secure Boot key management ⚡
- 3mo agoIncusNative Windows and macOS installers; QMP command timeouts
- 3mo agoIncusFirst patch release on the 7.0 LTS branch
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Hatchet and Incus?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Hatchet is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Hatchet better than Incus?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Hatchet is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Hatchet?
Top Hatchet alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Hatchet alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/hatchet for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Incus?
Top Incus alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Incus alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/incus for the full list with editorial commentary on each.