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Alternatives to LangGraph

LangGraph is an agent framework by LangChain: Low-level Python orchestration framework for long-running stateful agents, with durable execution, human review points and short- and long-term memory. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent frameworks cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match LangGraph and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. Ax leads the list (supports TypeScript and Java). Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with LangGraph.

Updated Oct 26, 2026 · Built from catalog data; how we rank and grade

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LangGraph

Low-level Python orchestration framework for long-running stateful agents, with durable execution, human review points and short- and long-term memory.

12 alternatives

Ordered by how closely each matches LangGraph (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.

  1. 1
    Ax

    Ax

    DSPy-style toolkit for typed LLM signatures, agents and flows, TypeScript-first with Python, Java, C++, Go and Rust libraries.

    • Supports TypeScript and Java

    ★ 3K↓ 27.2K/wkLast active Oct 21, 2026Compare →

  2. 2
    LangChain

    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)

    ★ 148.4K↓ 37.3M/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026

  3. 3
    DSPy

    Stanford NLP

    Python framework for writing language-model programs as code and optimizing their prompts and weights instead of hand-tuning prompts.

    • 38.8K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 38.8K↓ 1.3M/wkLast active Oct 22, 2026

  4. 4
    Pydantic AI

    Pydantic

    Typed Python SDK for building agents with swappable model providers, plus optional capabilities for memory, sub-agents, planning and durable execution.

    • 20.8K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 20.8K↓ 1.5M/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026

  5. 5
    Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)

    Google

    Open-source toolkit for building, evaluating and deploying agents in Python, TypeScript, Go, Java and Kotlin, tuned for Gemini but model-agnostic.

    • Supports TypeScript and Go

    ★ 22K↓ 2.4M/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026Compare →

  6. 6
    Claude Agent SDK (Python)

    Anthropic

    Python SDK that runs the Claude Code agent loop inside your own program, with custom tools and hooks written as Python functions.

    • 8.3K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 8.3K↓ 7.9M/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026Compare →

  7. 7
    Agno

    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.

    • 42.9K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 42.9K↓ 519.4K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026Compare →

  8. 8
    LiveKit Agents

    LiveKit

    Framework for Python or Node.js programs that join LiveKit rooms as realtime voice and video agents.

    • Supports JavaScript

    ★ 14.9K↓ 963.9K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026Compare →

  9. 9
    Haystack

    deepset

    Open-source Python framework from deepset for modular pipelines and agent workflows covering retrieval, tool use and generation.

    • 26.8K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 26.8K↓ 145.3K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026

  10. 10
    Hugging Face smolagents

    Hugging Face

    Small Python library whose agents write their actions as code, with sandboxed execution and tools from MCP servers, LangChain or the Hub.

    • 30K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 30K↓ 138.9K/wkLast active Oct 6, 2026Compare →

  11. 11
    docx-editor

    superdoc

    Browser DOCX editor and document engine built on OOXML, with a Document API that agents reach through SDKs, a CLI and an MCP server.

    • Supports JavaScript

    ★ 1.1KLast active Oct 24, 2026

  12. 12
    Coinbase AgentKit

    Coinbase

    Coinbase toolkit that gives AI agents a crypto wallet and onchain actions, framework- and wallet-agnostic.

    • Supports JavaScript

    ★ 1.3K↓ 1.8K/wkLast active Oct 14, 2026

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