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24 alternatives to Agno – multi-agent framework, runtime and control plane

Hi HN, Excited to share Agno, a framework and runtime for multi-agent systems. Think of it as FastAPI for AI Agents. At its core is the AgentOS, a high-performance server/runtime that helps you run and manage AI agents, multi-agent teams, and step-based agentic workflows — all inside your own cloud, with full privacy and no external data sharing. What makes it different • Fast & lightweight — Agents instantiate in ~3μs and use ~6.6 KiB of memory on average (tested on M4 MacBook Pro). • Runtime architecture — Async, stateless, horizontally scalable runtime built on FastAPI. • Integrated…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier.

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    Agno▲326

    Build, run, and manage agent platforms. Contribute to agno-agi/agno development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The multi-agent framework, runtime, and UI built for speed.

    2025 · ashpreetbedi.com · its alternatives →

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    Runtimefree tier, from $99/mo▲303

    Sandboxed coding agents for everyone on your team

    May 2026 · runtm.com · its alternatives →

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    Osaurus▲534

    Open source agents that run 100% locally on your Mac

    Jul 2026 · osaurus.ai · its alternatives →

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    Agyn is an open-source Kubernetes-native runtime that moves AI agents like Claude Code and Codex from laptops to company infrastructure with the controls enterprises need. - agynio/platform

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenAgents - The collaboration OS for AI agents. Contribute to openagents-org/openagents development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Apr 2026 · open-agents.dev · its alternatives →

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    AG-UI▲112

    Open protocol for interactive Agent-to-UI communication

    2025 · docs.ag-ui.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m Vincent from Aden. We spent 4 years building ERP automation for construction (PO/invoice reconciliation). We had real enterprise customers but hit a technical wall: Chatbots aren't for real work. Accountants don't want to chat; they want the ledger reconciled while they sleep. They want services, not tools. Existing agent frameworks (LangChain, AutoGPT) failed in production - brittle, looping, and unable to handle messy data. General Computer Use (GCU) frameworks were even worse. My reflections: 1. The "Toy App" Ceiling & GCU Trap Most frameworks assume synchronous sessions.…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source runtime for durable AI agents

    May 2026 · orkes.io · its alternatives →

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    AgentOS▲100

    Manage AI agents, tasks, workspaces from one control layer

    Jun 2026 · sapienx.app · its alternatives →

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    AG-UI: the Agent-User Interaction Protocol. Bring Agents into Frontend Applications. - ag-ui-protocol/ag-ui

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kodosumi▲167

    Hi Hacker News, I’m part of the team behind Kodosumi. We built it because deploying agentic services in production was much harder than building proof-of-concepts. Many frameworks let you build agents, but when you want them to run long tasks, scale across machines, or be observed/monitored reliably, things fall apart. Kodosumi is our answer to that. It’s an open-source runtime that uses Ray + FastAPI + Litestar to let you: Deploy “agents” and “flows” and expose APIs easily, with minimal config (just one YAML) Scale horizontally for bursty workloads and long-running tasks without losing…

    2025 · kodosumi.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! We're excited to share marimo pair [1] [2], a toolkit that drops AI agents into a running marimo notebook [3] session. This lets agents use marimo as working memory and a reactive Python runtime, while also making it easy for humans and agents to collaborate on computational research and data work. GitHub repo: https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo-pair Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uaqtchDnoc marimo pair is implemented as an agent skill. Connect your agent of choice to a running notebook with: /marimo-pair pair with me on…

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Your Company Agentic Operating System. Contribute to desplega-ai/agent-swarm development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Run Claude Code, Codex, AGY, and Grok Build side by side on your Mac. Every change gets reviewed by a second agent before you accept it.

    18d ago · offrun.dev · its alternatives →

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    Hey all! I recently gave a workshop talk at PyCon Greece 2025 about building production-ready agent systems. To check the workshop, I put together a demo repo: (I will add the slides too soon in my blog: https://www.petrostechchronicles.com/) https://github.com/Aherontas/Pycon_Greece_2025_Presentation_... The idea was to show how multiple AI agents can collaborate using FastAPI + Pydantic-AI, with protocols like MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent-to-Agent) for safe communication and orchestration. Features: - Multiple agents running in containers -…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    PaperPodfree tier, from $0.0001/mo▲85

    Hi HN, I’ve been working on PaperPod, an experiment in making compute native to AI agents. PaperPod is a sandbox runtime where coding agents like Claude Code can autonomously execute code, write files, run background processes, expose ports (preview URLs) etc. and pay per ms of usage via the agent native x402 payment protocol. No API keys or complex setup needed. This is early (alpha), but fully usable today with free compute included, no wallets needed, just use your email as X-User-Id in the request! A sample prompt to get started: To use PaperPod compute: 1. Get session: POST…

    Mar 2026 · paperpod.dev · its alternatives →

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    RunAgent eliminates the complexity of AI agent deployment across different frameworks and languages. Today's developers face deployment nightmares with fragmented frameworks (LlamaIndex, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Letta, Agno, etc.) each requiring different deployment processes, creating unnecessary friction. The Solution: Like MCP (Model Context Protocol), RunAgent provides a standardized approach to agent deployment. Developers simply provide a config file and their agent code - RunAgent handles the rest with REST API and WebSocket (Streaming and non streaming). Our open-source platform…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Rust runtime for AI agents with time-travel replay

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build, run, and manage agent platforms. Contribute to agno-agi/agno development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The Agentrun Workflow DSL. Contribute to Parcha-ai/agentrun development by creating an account on GitHub.

    28d ago · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm Josh, founder of Synth. We've been working on coding agent optimization with method like GEPA and MIPRO (the latter of which, I helped to originally develop), agent evaluation via methods like RLMs, and large scale deployment for training and inference. We've also worked on patterns for memory, processing live context, and managing agent actions, combining it all in a single stack called Horizons. With the release of OpenAI's Frontier and the consumer excitement around OpenClaw, we think the timing is right to release a v0. It integrates with our sdk for evaluation and optimization but…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A fork of OpenAI Swarm that supports Groq and Anthropic - chrislatimer/microagent

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build production-ready AI agents in Go.

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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