Comparison
Beacon Plugin vs Claude Hud
Claude Hud has more GitHub stars (28,591 vs 43). Claude Hud was updated more recently (last commit 2d ago). Data comes straight from GitHub and refreshes daily.
Beacon Plugin
Semantic code search plugin for Claude Code using hybrid vector search + BM25. 98% accuracy, 5x faster than grep.
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claude plugin install beacon@beacon-plugin
Claude Hud
A Claude Code plugin that shows what's happening - context usage, active tools, running agents, and todo progress
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/plugin marketplace add jarrodwatts/claude-hud| Metric | Beacon Plugin | Claude Hud |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Plugin | Plugin |
| GitHub stars | 43 | 28,591 |
| Stars, last 7 days | n/a | +35 |
| Forks | 5 | 1,344 |
| Upvotes | 0 | 0 |
| Language | JavaScript | JavaScript |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last commit | 1mo ago | 2d ago |
| Created | Feb 2026 | Jan 2026 |
| Categories | Databases, Search & web, Memory & knowledge | Memory & knowledge, AI & LLM tooling |