Dapr AgentsvsGoogle Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
Dapr Agents
Dapr · Agent framework
OSSMCP
Panel
7.00 spec wins
- Reliability
- 7.2
- Usefulness
- 6.2
- Cost
- 7.0
- Longevity
- 7.5
“It reaches more than fifty enterprise data sources, which is fifty new ways to be told your credentials expired.”
Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Google · Agent framework
OSSMCP
Panel
7.16 spec wins
- Reliability
- 7.0
- Usefulness
- 7.0
- Cost
- 7.3
- Longevity
- 7.0
“Ships Google Search grounding built in, so the agent can at least cite where it went wrong.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Dapr Agents | Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | Agent framework | Agent framework |
| Runs | local, cloud | local, cloud |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | No | Yes |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | No | Yes |
| Multi-file edits | No | No |
| Git operations | No | No |
| Browser control | No | Yes |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | Yes | Yes |
| Headless / CI mode | No | Yes |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | OpenAI, Anthropic | Gemini, any LiteLLM model, Ollama |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | No | Yes |
| 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 | Apache-2.0 |
| GitHub stars | 753 | 21,692 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Dapr Agents | Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 6.8 | 7.0 | Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) — Pick ADK if you are on Google Cloud or need one agent framework across Python, TypeScript, Go, Java and Kotlin; pick the OpenAI Agents SDK if your models and platform are OpenAI's. |
| El Crítico | 6.3 | 6.8 | Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) — Every default points at Google: Gemini is the default model and the sample code hard-codes gemini-flash-latest; LiteLLM is the escape hatch, and escape hatches are what you use on a bad day. |
| El Profesor | 7.5 | 6.8 | Dapr Agents — Agent runs are expressed as durable workflows, which imposes a replay discipline: the orchestration must be deterministic and every model call has to sit behind an activity boundary. |
| La Inversora | 7.0 | 7.3 | Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) — The framework is free; the business is the one-command deploy to Agent Runtime, Cloud Run or GKE, which turns every agent built with it into Google Cloud consumption. |
| La Jefa | 7.0 | 7.3 | Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) — As a dependency it is $0 for sixty engineers, support arrives through the Google Cloud contract we already hold, and adk web gives a mid-level engineer a debugger on day one; approved with conditions. |
| El Hacker | 7.3 | 7.5 | Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) — Apache-2.0, McpToolset with StdioConnectionParams for any MCP server, expose my own tools as an MCP server, Ollama through LiteLLM, and go get google.golang.org/adk/v2 for the Go build. |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.