Alternatives to Phidata

CrewAI is an enterprise multi-agent platform: visual builder plus a governed control plane for production agent workflows.

LangGraph is a low-level agent orchestration framework for building stateful, controllable AI agents as graphs.

Free, open-source desktop GUI that runs the self-hosted Hermes Agent with a closed learning loop that writes its own skills

Hermes Agent: a self-hosted open-source AI agent with persistent memory and reusable skills across chat platforms.

Coze Studio is an open-source, self-hosted AI agent builder with visual workflows and RAG.

Open-source agent platform that fuses knowledge graphs with RAG for self-hosted, explainable enterprise AI.

Open-source stack pairing a drag-and-drop multi-agent workflow builder with a Rust/Python actor-model runtime for edge and IoT deployments.

Open-source, self-hosted AI assistant and agent platform with model routing, a full RAG chain and local/remote MCP tooling.

Hello Agents is a free, open-source 16-chapter tutorial for building AI agents from scratch in Python.

Haystack is deepset's open-source Python framework for building inspectable RAG pipelines and production-grade AI agents

OpenAI Agents SDK: a free Python framework for building multi-agent workflows with handoffs, guardrails, and sandbox agents

Lyzr's Opencontroller is a control plane to run, monitor and govern AI agents built on any framework.

Swarms is an open-source Python framework for multi-agent orchestration with named swarm topologies and reasoning agents

AutoGen is Microsoft's open-source framework for building conversational and event-driven multi-agent AI apps in Python and .NET.

Yao Agents is a self-hosted AI agent runtime that runs autonomous agents across every computer you own.

Microsoft Agent Framework is an open-source SDK for building agentic AI agents and workflows in Python or C#, now with the GA Agent Harness

Self-hosted AI agent runtime in one Rust binary — 70+ LLM providers, 30+ channels, signed tool receipts.

AgentScope is an open-source Python framework for building multi-agent AI systems with debate, routing, and plan-based reasoning.

Microsoft's open-source, code-first Python framework for building stateful, data-intensive conversational AI agents.

VCPToolBox is the open-source runtime that gives LLM agents persistent memory, tool calling and multi-agent coordination via the VCP

Open source durable execution SDK for background jobs, workflow orchestration, and AI agents

OpenAgents runs Data Agent, Plugins Agent and Web Agent from one open chat UI, self-hostable under Apache-2.0.

Agenta is an open-source workspace for building and automating AI coworkers that work in Slack or Telegram

SmolAgents builds code-writing AI agents in Python — agents that think and act in code, sandboxed and model-agnostic.

AgenticX: build multi-agent Python systems with MCP, A2A and layered memory in one local-first runtime

DeepAgents is an open-source agent harness for long-horizon, multi-step agents with sub-agents and a pluggable filesystem.

Open Multi-Agent is an MIT-licensed TypeScript runtime for audit-ready multi-agent orchestration with durable approvals.

TabTin is an open-source team agent harness where sub-agents and people share one task surface for code, docs and spreadsheets.

Open-source meta-harness that runs Claude Code, Codex and custom AI agents under one policy, sandbox and cost layer

Open-source AI agent orchestration: run a team of AI agents with org charts, budgets, and approval gates.