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AutoGen by Microsoft

Agent frameworks and SDKs #69 overall#18 in categoryOpen source · MIT
DocsGitHub
Pulse Score
39 / 100
Rank #69 of 157
Downloads, last 7 days
89K
up 0.4% vs previous week
Downloads, last 30 days
380K
down 54.7% vs previous 30 days
GitHub stars
61.3K
about +14 a day
Latest release
0.7.5
12mo ago
Price
Free (OSS)
checked Oct 5, 2026

Overview

Microsoft's open-source framework for multi-agent conversations and event-driven agent systems.

Status: AutoGen is in maintenance mode: it no longer receives new features, and Microsoft points new users to Microsoft Agent Framework, its successor.

AutoGen was downloaded 89K times from PyPI in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, up 0.4% on the week before and down 54.7% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 61.3K stars, 547 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 0.7.5, published Sep 30, 2025. It was mentioned in 24 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.

AutoGen usage and attention over time

Downloads per dayPyPI, 7-day average 12.7K/day
GitHub starsrunning total 61.3K
Hacker News mentionsposts and comments, rolling 7-day total 5 this week

Download the raw daily series: autogen.csv

Install AutoGen

PyPIpip install autogen-agentchat

These commands use the packages tracked on this page. The vendor may recommend a different installer; see the official documentation.

Key facts

MakerMicrosoft
TypeMulti-agent framework
LicenseMIT
InterfacesPython library, .NET library
Main languagePython
Open issues and PRs1,102

Pricing

AutoGen is open source and free to use; you pay only for the models and infrastructure it runs on.

, checked Oct 5, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.

Pulse Score breakdown

Adoption44
Community74
Attention24
Momentum0

Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.

What changed: recent AutoGen releases

Full changelog

0.7.5
  • Fix docs dotnet core typo
  • Fix loading streaming Bedrock response with tool usage with empty argument
  • Support linear memory in RedisMemory
  • Fix message ID for correlation between streaming chunks and final mes…
  • fix: extra args not work to disable thinking
  • Add thinking mode support for anthropic client
0.7.4
  • Update docs for 0.7.3
  • Update readme with agent-as-tool
  • Fix Redis Deserialization Error
  • Redis Doesn't Support Streaming
  • update version to 0.7.4
  • Update doc 0.7.4
0.7.3
  • Update website for 0.7.2
  • Typo in docs for 'NoOpTracerProvider'
  • Fix MCP example in readme
  • Extend pydantic model capability for anyOf/oneOf item typing
  • Update README.md with correct stable version
  • fix: Add proper serialization to RedisStore for complex objects
0.7.2
  • Update website 0.7.1
  • Update OpenAIAssistantAgent doc
  • Update 0.7.1 website ref
  • Remove assistant related methods from OpenAIAgent
  • Make DockerCommandLineCodeExecutor the default for MagenticOne team
  • Add approvalfunc option to CodeExecutorAgent
0.7.1
  • Feat/OpenAI agent builtin tools 6657
  • Supporting Teams as Participants in a GroupChat
  • Adds Redis Memory extension class
  • Upgrademcpversion
  • Expand MCP Workbench to support more MCP Client features
  • Upgrade GraphRAG to v2.3+
0.6.4
  • Fix GraphFlow to support multiple task execution without explicit reset
  • Fix GraphFlowManager termination to prevent \StopAgent from polluting conversation context
  • Add tool name and description override functionality to Workbench implementations
  • Update documentation version
  • Fix function calling support for Llama3.3
  • Fix GraphFlow to support multiple task execution without explicit reset

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AutoGen FAQ

How much does AutoGen cost?

AutoGen is open source and free to use; you pay only for the models and infrastructure it runs on.

Is AutoGen open source?

Yes. AutoGen is open source, released under the MIT license.

How popular is AutoGen?

AutoGen was downloaded 89K times from PyPI in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, up 0.4% on the week before and down 54.7% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 61.3K stars, 547 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 0.7.5, published Sep 30, 2025.

What is the latest version of AutoGen?

The latest stable release we track is 0.7.5, published on Sep 30, 2025.

What are the alternatives to AutoGen?

The closest alternatives in the same category by Pulse Score are LangChain, LangGraph, AI SDK, Strands Agents.

Where these numbers come from

PyPI: autogen-agentchat. GitHub: microsoft/autogen. See data sources for how each one is collected.