Best Agent Framework Top 20
Top 20 most popular open-source Agent Framework projects, ranked by GitHub Stars.
AutoGPT
184.2k StarsAutoGPT is an autonomous AI agent that can complete user-defined tasks end-to-end. It plans and executes steps on its own and is considered a milestone in agent autonomy.
Langflow
148.0k StarsLangflow is a visual AI agent and workflow builder platform with drag-and-drop design, multi-LLM integration, and tool composition to simplify agent development.
Hermes Agent
144.9k StarsAn autonomous AI agent framework from NousResearch that supports multiple LLM backends and grows with user needs.
Dify
141.0k StarsDify is an open-source LLM application development platform with a visual agent orchestration interface, supporting workflows, knowledge bases, and multiple models.
LangChain
136.5k StarsLangChain is a framework for building applications powered by language models. It provides core capabilities such as chaining, memory management, and agent orchestration, making it a go-to choice for AI agent development.
AutoResearch
80.5k StarsAI research automation agent by Andrej Karpathy that automatically runs nanochat training research experiments on a single GPU.
OpenHands
73.2k StarsOpenHands is an open-source AI software engineering agent platform that can automatically execute development tasks, modify code, and support collaborative iteration.
LlamaFactory
71.2k StarsUnified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs & VLMs. Supports LoRA, QLoRA, RLHF and more for building custom agent models.
MetaGPT
67.9k StarsThe Multi-Agent Framework for building the first AI Software Company, enabling natural language programming with multi-role collaboration for automated requirement analysis, design, coding, and testing.
AI Agents for Beginners
61.2k Stars12 Lessons to Get Started Building AI Agents by Microsoft. Hands-on curriculum covering core agent concepts, tool use, and multi-agent collaboration.
Oh My OpenAgent
57.3k StarsAn open-source agent harness platform providing the best agent toolkit, supporting multiple AI coding agents.
CrewAI
51.2k StarsA multi-agent collaboration framework where AI agents form crews to accomplish complex tasks together. Role definition, task assignment, tool sharing, and process orchestration.
Huginn
49.3k StarsBuild agents that monitor and act on your behalf. Create automated agents for Twitter, weather monitoring, web scraping, and many other scenarios.
Ruflo
49.1k StarsThe leading agent orchestration platform for Claude. Deploy intelligent multi-agent swarms, coordinate autonomous workflows, and build conversational AI systems. Features enterprise-grade architecture, distributed swarm intelligence, RAG integration, and native Claude Code/Codex integration.
Pi Mono
48.2k StarsPi Mono is a comprehensive AI agent toolkit including a coding agent CLI, unified LLM API, TUI and web UI libraries, Slack bot, and vLLM pod management for end-to-end agent development.
CowAgent
44.3k StarsCowAgent (formerly chatgpt-on-wechat) is a powerful AI assistant framework built on LLMs with autonomous planning, tool use, long-term memory, multi-agent collaboration, and multi-channel integration for WeChat, Feishu, DingTalk, and more.
nanobot
42.2k Starsnanobot is an ultra-lightweight personal AI agent that supports multiple LLM backends for quickly deploying a private intelligent assistant.
Fabric
41.7k StarsFabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI, providing a modular system of crowdsourced AI prompts for solving specific problems anywhere.
Agno
40.1k StarsAgno is a high-performance agent framework for building multimodal AI agents with memory, knowledge, and tool-use capabilities, supporting multiple LLM providers.
Phidata
40.1k StarsPhidata is a framework for building AI agents with memory, knowledge, and tool integration to make agents more capable and useful.
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