The best autogen alternatives

langchain

langchain-ai/langchain

The agent engineering platform.

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• MIT License suits your use better than Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• you want the more widely starred option (148.9k)
• you specifically need ai-agents or anthropic

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langgraph

langchain-ai/langgraph

Build resilient agents.

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• MIT License suits your use better than Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• you specifically need ai-agents or deepagents

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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.

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• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-framework or agentic-ai

Shares agentic, agents, ai, llm-agent with autogen.

swarms

kyegomez/swarms

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

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• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agentic-ai or agentic-workflow

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mem0

mem0ai/mem0

The Memory Layer for AI Agents - Drop-in memory infrastructure for AI agents and apps. Context that persists. Built for production.

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• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• you specifically need agentic-memory or agentic-memory-system

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openai-agents-python

openai/openai-agents-python

A lightweight, powerful framework for multi-agent workflows

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• MIT License suits your use better than Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need harness or llm

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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.

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• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-framework or agentic-ai

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PocketFlow

The-Pocket/PocketFlow

Pocket Flow: 100-line LLM framework. Let Agents build Agents!

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• MIT License suits your use better than Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agentic-ai or agentic-framework

Shares agents, llm-agent, llm-framework with autogen.

AstrBot

AstrBotDevs/AstrBot

AI Agent Assistant & development framework that integrates lots of IM platforms, LLMs, plugins and AI feature, and can be your openclaw alternative. ✨

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• GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 suits your use better than Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• you specifically need agent or astrbot

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AdalFlow

SylphAI-Inc/AdalFlow

AdalFlow: The library to build & auto-optimize LLM applications.

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• MIT License suits your use better than Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent or auto-prompting

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quivr

The-Vibe-Company/quivr

Opiniated RAG for integrating GenAI in your apps 🧠 Focus on your product rather than the RAG. Easy integration in existing products with customisation! Any LLM: GPT4, Groq, Llama. Any Vectorstore: PGVector, Faiss. Any Files. Anyway you want.

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• you specifically need api or chatbot

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rowboat

rowboatlabs/rowboat

Open-source AI coworker, with memory

Choose rowboat if…

• you would rather work in TypeScript than Python
• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agents-sdk or ai-agents

Shares agents, ai, chatgpt with autogen.