Alternatives to ADK for Go
ADK for Go is an agent framework by Google: Code-first Go toolkit for building agents with a tool ecosystem, composable multi-agent systems and Cloud Run deployment. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent frameworks cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match ADK for Go and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) leads the list (more GitHub stars (22K); supports Python and TypeScript). Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with ADK for Go.
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ADK for Go
Code-first Go toolkit for building agents with a tool ecosystem, composable multi-agent systems and Cloud Run deployment.
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches ADK for Go (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
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Open-source toolkit for building, evaluating and deploying agents in Python, TypeScript, Go, Java and Kotlin, tuned for Gemini but model-agnostic.
- More GitHub stars (22K)
- Supports Python and TypeScript
★ 22K↓ 2.4M/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2stagehand
browserbase
SDK for browser agents with act, observe and extract calls, used from TypeScript and Python to automate sites and pull out structured data.
- More GitHub stars (25.8K)
- Supports TypeScript and Python
★ 25.8K↓ 996K/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026Compare →
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3Eino
CloudWeGo (ByteDance)
Go framework for LLM applications with chat-model agents, multi-agent coordination, graph workflows and human-in-the-loop resume.
- 13.4K GitHub stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 13.4KLast active Oct 19, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4LangChainGo
LangChainGo
Go implementation of LangChain for writing LLM-based programs from composable building blocks.
- 9.7K GitHub stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 9.7KLast active Oct 22, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft
Open framework for building and hosting production-grade AI agents and multi-agent workflows in .NET and Python.
- Supports Python and C#
★ 14.3K↓ 47.6K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026Compare →
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6blades
go-kratos
Go framework for multimodal AI agents with models, tools, memory, middleware, chains and structured output.
- Open source (MIT)
- For Go
★ 819Last active May 7, 2026
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 7LlamaIndex
LlamaIndex
Open-source Python toolkit for RAG and agents over your own data, with event-driven workflows and 300+ integration packages.
- More GitHub stars (52.6K)
- Supports Python
★ 52.6K↓ 1.4M/wkLast active Oct 14, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8LangChain
LangChain
Python framework of interoperable components and integrations for building agents and LLM apps, with LangGraph and Deep Agents layered above it.
- More GitHub stars (148.4K)
- Supports Python
★ 148.4K↓ 37.3M/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9PraisonAI
Mervin Praison
Python framework for multi-agent teams and workflows, with a CLI and Docker, MCP and A2A deployment options.
- Supports Python and JavaScript
★ 9.3K↓ 4.6K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10Rig
Playgrounds
Rust library for LLM applications with agents, tool calling, streaming and 20+ model providers, plus a terminal coding agent.
- Supports Rust
★ 9K↓ 152.4K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11Pydantic AI
Pydantic
Typed Python SDK for building agents with swappable model providers, plus optional capabilities for memory, sub-agents, planning and durable execution.
- More GitHub stars (20.8K)
- Supports Python
★ 20.8K↓ 1.5M/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 12Agno
Agno
Python framework and runtime for building agents, serving them over a REST API and MCP server, and managing them from a web control plane.
- More GitHub stars (42.9K)
- Supports Python
★ 42.9K↓ 519.4K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet
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