The best adk-python alternatives

crewAI

crewAIInc/crewAI

Framework for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents. By fostering collaborative intelligence, CrewAI empowers agents to work together seamlessly, tackling complex tasks.

Choose crewAI if…

• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you want the more widely starred option (60.8k)
• you specifically need llms

Shares agents, ai, ai-agents, aiagentframework with adk-python.

unsloth

unslothai/unsloth

Local UI to run and train LLMs and diffusion models. Supports GGUF, MLX, Qwen3.8, DeepSeek-V4, MiniMax-H3, Gemma 4, FLUX and more.

Choose unsloth if…

• you want the more widely starred option (79.4k)
• you specifically need chatgpt or deepseek

Shares agent, ai, llm, llms with adk-python.

CowAgent

zhayujie/CowAgent

Open-source super AI assistant & Agent Harness. Plans tasks, runs tools and skills, self-evolves with memory and knowledge. Multi-agent, multi-model, multi-channel. Lightweight, extensible, one-line install. (formerly chatgpt-on-wechat)

Choose CowAgent if…

• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you want something your agent can install directly rather than a library to wire up yourself
• you want the more widely starred option (47.9k)
• you specifically need ai-agent or chatgpt-on-wechat

Shares ai, ai-agents, llm, multi-agent with adk-python.

open-swe

langchain-ai/open-swe

An Open-Source Asynchronous Coding Agent

Choose open-swe if…

• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you specifically need anthropic or claudecode

Shares agent, agents, ai, llm with adk-python.

ag2

ag2ai/ag2

AG2 (formerly AutoGen): The Open-Source AgentOS.Join us at: https://discord.gg/sNGSwQME3x

Choose ag2 if…

• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need a2a or ag2

Shares agentic, agentic-ai, ai, genai with adk-python.

Hands-On-AI-Engineering

Sumanth077/Hands-On-AI-Engineering

A curated collection of practical AI projects implementing OCR systems, RAG, AI agents, and other AI use cases.

Choose Hands-On-AI-Engineering if…

• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need ai-engineering or generative-ai

Shares agents, ai, ai-agents, llms with adk-python.

deer-flow

bytedance/deer-flow

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.

Choose deer-flow if…

• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you want the more widely starred option (85.3k)
• you specifically need agentic-framework or agentic-workflow

Shares agent, agentic, ai, ai-agents with adk-python.

haystack

deepset-ai/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.

Choose haystack if…

• you specifically need agent-framework or agentic-rag

Shares agentic-ai, agents, ai, ai-agents with adk-python.

omnigent

omnigent-ai/omnigent

Omnigent is an open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness: orchestrate Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi, and custom agents — swap harnesses without rewriting, enforce policies and sandboxing, and collaborate in real time from any device.

Choose omnigent if…

• you specifically need agent-framework or agent-governance

Shares agents, ai, ai-agents, llm with adk-python.

harness-sdk

strands-agents/harness-sdk

Build an agent harness and control it end-to-end. Open-source SDK for production AI agents in Python & TypeScript - any model, any cloud.

Choose harness-sdk if…

• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-framework or ai-agents

Shares agentic, agentic-ai, agents, ai with adk-python.

swarms

kyegomez/swarms

The Enterprise-Grade Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework. Website: https://swarms.ai

Choose swarms if…

• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agentic-workflow or artificial-intelligence

Shares agentic-ai, agents, ai, multi-agent-systems with adk-python.

cursor-talk-to-figma-mcp

grab/cursor-talk-to-figma-mcp

TalkToFigma: MCP integration between AI Agent (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) and Figma, allowing Agentic AI to communicate with Figma for reading designs and modifying them programmatically.

Choose cursor-talk-to-figma-mcp if…

• you would rather work in JavaScript than Python
• MIT License suits your use better than Apache License 2.0
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need ai-agents or automation

Shares agent, agentic, agentic-ai, ai with adk-python.