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Alternatives to Pipecat

Pipecat is an agent framework by Daily: Open-source Python framework for real-time voice and multimodal agents, built from composable pipelines with handoffs between specialist agents. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent frameworks cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match Pipecat and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. PraisonAI leads the list (supports JavaScript). Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with Pipecat.

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

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Pipecat

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

12 alternatives

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

  1. 1
    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 →

  2. 2
    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 →

  3. 3
    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, 2026Compare →

  4. 4
    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, 2026Compare →

  5. 5
    OpenAI Agents SDK

    OpenAI

    Python SDK for multi-agent workflows with handoffs, guardrails, sessions and built-in tracing, usable with OpenAI and other LLMs.

    • 30.3K GitHub stars
    • Most weekly downloads here (4.5M)

    ★ 30.3K↓ 4.5M/wkLast active Oct 22, 2026Compare →

  6. 6
    AG2

    AG2

    Open-source Python framework for AI agents that cooperate on tasks, with human-in-the-loop workflows and multi-agent patterns.

    • 5K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 5K↓ 39.7K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026Compare →

  7. 7
    OGX (formerly Llama Stack)

    OGX

    OpenAI-compatible agentic API server for inference, vector stores, files and skills, on any model or infrastructure.

    • 8.4K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 8.4K↓ 14.2K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026

  8. 8
    Griptape

    Griptape

    Python framework for generative AI agents, pipelines and parallel workflows, with RAG engines, tools, memory and swappable drivers.

    • 2.6K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 2.6K↓ 10.7K/wkLast active Oct 23, 2026

  9. 9
    txtai

    NeuML

    All-in-one Python AI framework for embeddings-based semantic search, LLM pipelines, workflows and agents.

    • 13K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 13K↓ 3.3K/wkLast active Oct 22, 2026

  10. 10
    Marvin

    Prefect

    Python framework for structured LLM outputs and agentic workflows built from tasks, agents and threads.

    • 6.2K GitHub stars
    • Open source (Apache-2.0)

    ★ 6.2K↓ 61.8K/wkLast active Sep 23, 2026

  11. 11
    Swarms

    Swarms

    Python framework for orchestrating multiple LLM agents in sequential, concurrent, hierarchical and graph-based workflows.

    • Supports Rust

    ★ 7.3K↓ 3.3K/wkLast active Oct 24, 2026

  12. 12
    EvoAgentX

    ANative-Lab

    Open-source framework that builds, evaluates and self-improves multi-agent LLM workflows from a goal.

    • 3.4K GitHub stars
    • Active in the last 30 days

    ★ 3.4KLast active Oct 22, 2026

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