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Dify

ship

Source-available LLM app platform with agent workflows and RAG.

freemiumCloud Sandbox free; self-host Community free under restricted license; cloud Professional/Team paid yearly

Verified 2026-09-01

CrewAI

ship

Python framework for multi-agent crews — roles, tasks and processes.

freemiumopen source (MIT); cloud Free Basic (50 exec/mo); Enterprise custom

Verified 2026-08-19

LangGraph

ship

Graph-based agent orchestration from LangChain — stateful and controllable.

freemiumframework free open-source; LangSmith Plus $39/seat/mo

Verified 2026-08-19

OpenAI Responses API

ship

OpenAI's agent-building API — tools, web search and file search built in.

paidpay-per-token; e.g. GPT-5.6 Luna $0.20/1M input

Verified 2026-08-19

AutoGen

situational

Microsoft framework for building multi-agent LLM applications.

freeopen source (MIT)

Verified 2026-08-24

MindStudio

situational

No-code AI agent platform with 200+ models and 1,000+ integrations, plus Remy for building apps from specs.

freemiumfree tier: 1 agent, 1,000 runs/mo; Individual $20/mo ($16/mo annual); Business custom; AI model usage billed at cost on top

Verified 2026-08-20

Browser Use

situational

Open-source browser agent library plus managed cloud browsers — task-in, work-out, or raw CDP.

freemiumOSS library free; Cloud Free $0 (10 agent tasks/mo); PAYG credits; Dev $29/mo, Business $299/mo, Scaleup $999/mo; browser time $0.02/hour; default V4 model GPT-5.6 Luna $0.24/$1.44 per 1M tokens

Verified 2026-08-19

Camel AI

situational

Open-source framework for multi-agent collaboration and role-playing.

freeopen source (Apache 2.0)

Verified 2026-08-19

Cogni

situational

MCP memory server that connects facts in an entity graph so agents reason over what they remember.

freemiumFree personal tier; Pro for higher limits and graph inspection; Team/Enterprise custom

Verified 2026-08-19

Doberman

situational

Runtime guard dog for AI coding agents that blocks unsafe tool calls before they execute.

freeApache-2.0 open source core; enterprise platform on roadmap

Verified 2026-08-19

E2B

situational

Isolated cloud sandboxes for agents — firecracker VMs billed per second of CPU/RAM.

freemiumHobby $0 + usage (one-time $100 credits, 1h sessions, 20 concurrent); Pro $150/mo + usage (24h sessions, 100 concurrent); default 2 vCPU $0.000028/s

Verified 2026-08-19

Mastra

situational

TypeScript agent framework plus a hosted platform — OSS to build, Cloud to observe and run.

freemiumframework OSS; Platform Starter $0 (100k obs events, 24 CPU-h); Teams $250/mo; gateway tokens at market + 5.5%

Verified 2026-08-19

OpenAI Agents SDK

situational

Official Python agents runtime — agents, handoffs, guardrails, sessions; not the Responses API itself.

freeSDK free (pip install openai-agents); model/tool calls billed at OpenAI API rates; tracing uses your OpenAI account

Verified 2026-08-19

PydanticAI

situational

Pydantic's typed Python agent SDK — models, tools, evals, OpenTelemetry, not a hosted studio.

freeMIT SDK free; you pay model/provider bills; Pydantic Logfire observability is a separate product

Verified 2026-08-19

Relevance AI

situational

No-code platform for building AI agent workforces for ops teams.

freemiumfree tier; paid plans usage-based from ~$19/mo

Verified 2026-08-19

Singular

situational

Autonomous multi-agent orchestration engine that runs coding agents in parallel against a repo.

freeGPL-3.0 open source; bring your own runner (Claude Code, Codex, etc.)

Verified 2026-08-19

Roomote

radar

Source-available cloud coding teammate from the Roo Code team, working in chat and returning PRs with live previews.

freemiumSelf-hosted free up to 10 users (Fair Core License, ALv2 after 2 years); paid per-capability tiers above; Roomote Cloud: 7-day trial, BYO inference key

Verified 2026-09-01

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