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AI Frameworks
Compare agent orchestration, RAG, serving and training frameworks. Find the right foundation for your project.
LangChain
The most widely used framework for composing LLM applications, with hundreds of integrations for models, vector stores and tools.
- Huge integration library
- Massive community
- Rich docs
- Abstraction overhead
- Frequent breaking changes
AutoGen
Microsoft's framework for building multi-agent conversational systems with an event-driven, asynchronous architecture.
- Strong multi-agent chat
- Microsoft backing
- Event-driven core
- API churn between versions
- Complex setup
LlamaIndex
A data framework for connecting custom data sources to LLMs, specialising in retrieval-augmented generation.
- Best-in-class RAG
- Many data loaders
- Good indexing primitives
- RAG-centric
- Less general agent tooling
vLLM
A high-throughput, memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs, widely used for self-hosting open models.
- PagedAttention speed
- OpenAI-compatible API
- Wide model support
- GPU ops knowledge needed
- Infra heavy
CrewAI
A framework for orchestrating role-playing autonomous AI agents that collaborate as a crew to complete tasks.
- Intuitive role/task model
- Lightweight
- Fast to learn
- Less control than graphs
- Younger ecosystem
Semantic Kernel
Microsoft's enterprise SDK for integrating LLMs into applications with plugins, planners and memory.
- Enterprise-ready
- Multi-language
- Azure integration
- Heavier
- Microsoft-centric
DSPy
A framework from Stanford for programming — not prompting — language models, with automatic prompt and weight optimization.
- Programmatic prompting
- Auto-optimization
- Strong research roots
- Different mental model
- Smaller community
Haystack
An open-source framework by deepset for building production-ready RAG and search pipelines with LLMs.
- Composable pipelines
- Production focus
- Good docs
- RAG-oriented
- Less agent tooling
LangGraph
A low-level orchestration framework for building stateful, multi-actor agent applications with cycles and checkpointing.
- Graph-based control flow
- Built-in persistence
- Strong ecosystem
- Steeper learning curve
- Verbose for simple tasks
Pydantic AI
An agent framework from the Pydantic team bringing type-safe, structured outputs and validation to LLM applications.
- Type safety
- Clean API
- Great validation
- Newer
- Python only