Deep Agents vs Pi Agent Core

Deep Agents and Pi Agent Core are both agent frameworks. Deep Agents is published by LangChain and Pi Agent Core by Earendil. On GitHub, Pi Agent Core has 117,586 stars and Deep Agents has 30,550. Both were last active in Oct 2026. The table lines up where they differ (publisher, weekly downloads, category and languages) and has the install commands for both. Everything here comes from the listings' public sources and is refreshed daily. Deep Agents describes itself as: Opinionated agent harness on LangGraph with sub-agents, filesystem access, context management, persistent memory and approval of tool calls. Pi Agent Core: Minimal TypeScript agent harness with an agent runtime, multi-provider LLM API, terminal UI and coding agent CLI that users extend themselves. Licenses: Deep Agents MIT, Pi Agent Core MIT.