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Alternatives to Microsoft Agent Framework

Microsoft Agent Framework is an agent framework by Microsoft: Open framework for building and hosting production-grade AI agents and multi-agent workflows in .NET and Python. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent frameworks cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match Microsoft Agent Framework and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. ADK for Go leads the list (8.9K GitHub stars; active in the last 30 days). Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with Microsoft Agent Framework.

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

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Microsoft Agent Framework

Open framework for building and hosting production-grade AI agents and multi-agent workflows in .NET and Python.

12 alternatives

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

  1. 1
    ADK for Go

    Google

    Code-first Go toolkit for building agents with a tool ecosystem, composable multi-agent systems and Cloud Run deployment.

    • 8.9K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 8.9KLast active Oct 23, 2026Compare →

  2. 2
    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 →

  3. 3
    PraisonAI

    Mervin Praison

    Python framework for multi-agent teams and workflows, with a CLI and Docker, MCP and A2A deployment options.

    • Supports JavaScript

    ★ 9.3K↓ 4.6K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026Compare →

  4. 4
    LangGraph

    LangChain

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

    • More GitHub stars (43.8K)

    ★ 43.8K↓ 13.1M/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026Compare →

  5. 5
    BeeAI Framework

    IBM / Linux Foundation

    Python and TypeScript framework for multi-agent systems, with MCP and A2A interop, YAML orchestration and OpenTelemetry tracing.

    • Supports TypeScript

    ★ 3.4K↓ 5.4K/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026Compare →

  6. 6
    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, 2026Compare →

  7. 7
    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 Java

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

  8. 8
    CrewAI

    CrewAI

    Open-source Python framework for multi-agent workflows, with role-based Crews and event-driven Flows.

    • More GitHub stars (60.1K)

    ★ 60.1K↓ 644.6K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026

  9. 9
    Agent Squad

    2FastLabs

    Open-source framework that routes each user query to one of several AI agents, with Python, TypeScript and Swift runtimes.

    • Supports TypeScript and Swift

    ★ 7.8K↓ 1.5K/wkLast active Oct 2, 2026

  10. 10
    Pipecat

    Daily

    Open-source Python framework for real-time voice and multimodal agents, built from composable pipelines with handoffs between specialist agents.

    • 16.8K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 16.8K↓ 373.6K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026

  11. 11
    Eino

    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

  12. 12
    AgentScope

    Alibaba Tongyi Lab

    Python agent framework from Alibaba that lets the model drive tool use, with team pipelines, MCP, agent skills, A2A, memory and tracing.

    • More GitHub stars (33.8K)

    ★ 33.8K↓ 50.9K/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026

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