AgnovsClaude Agent SDK
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Agno
Agno · Agent framework
OSSMCP
Panel
7.06 spec wins
- Reliability
- 6.8
- Usefulness
- 7.2
- Cost
- 7.2
- Longevity
- 6.8
“The recommended way to set it up is to paste a prompt into Claude Code and let it read the README for you.”
Claude Agent SDK
Anthropic · Agent framework
OSSMCP
Panel
6.92 spec wins
- Reliability
- 7.2
- Usefulness
- 7.5
- Cost
- 6.2
- Longevity
- 6.7
“Lets you ship Claude Code inside your product, on the condition that you never call it Claude Code.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Agno | Claude Agent SDK |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent framework | Agent framework |
| Runs | local, cloud | local, cloud |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | 200k tokens, 1M on select models |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | No | Yes |
| Git operations | No | Yes |
| Browser control | Yes | No |
| Sandboxed execution | Yes | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, AWS Bedrock, Azure, Mistral, Groq, Cohere, Ollama | Claude |
| Bring your own model | Yes | No |
| Local models | Yes | No |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | byok |
| Starts at | $0/mo | $0/mo |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT (SDK); use governed by Anthropic Commercial Terms |
| GitHub stars | 42,478 | 8,199 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Agno | Claude Agent SDK | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 7.5 | 7.3 | Agno — Pick Agno if you write Python and want the agent running as a service with an API and a UI by tonight; pick LangGraph if you want to draw the graph and own the plumbing. |
| El Crítico | 6.5 | 6.5 | no preference |
| El Profesor | 6.8 | 7.0 | Claude Agent SDK — Eight documented built-in tools, subagents with their own context, hooks and resumable sessions; other languages get the same loop by shelling out to the CLI with -p and --output-format json. |
| La Inversora | 7.0 | 8.0 | Claude Agent SDK — Renaming the Claude Code SDK to the Claude Agent SDK is Anthropic saying the product is the loop, not the CLI, and the upsell above it is already named: Managed Agents. |
| La Jefa | 6.5 | 7.3 | Claude Agent SDK — As a dependency it rides the Bedrock, Vertex AI or Foundry contract we already have, costs nothing per seat, forbids consumer subscriptions, and comes with branding rules legal will want to read. |
| El Hacker | 7.8 | 5.3 | Agno — Apache-2.0, pip install agno, Ollama on the list, a Postgres I run, and the agents come out as an MCP server; the control plane is hosted, and self-hosting it is an Enterprise add-on. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.