- MCP servers agents run from the terminal. An MCP server's tools load into every agent's tool
- hive mcp add takes --env, --cwd, and the server's command after --, so a command
- extrabody for workerllm and each queen's own model. Only the main model sent
- Queens reflect on memory every few replies, not after every model call. Reflection counted
- MCP servers on another Python version, when Hive runs from a uv-made virtualenv on Windows.
- Retired Claude model. claude-sonnet-4-20250514 was switched off on June 15. Hive's fallback
Hive by Aden
Open-source multi-agent harness for running AI agents in production.
Agent frameworks and SDKs
New · Added to AgentGid on Oct 20, 2026Open source · Apache-2.0Free to start
Price
Free (OSS)
free and open source
Popularity
#28 in Frameworks
Gid Score 33 / 100 · #28 of 42 ranked frameworks and SDKs
Trend
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about +4 GitHub stars a day
Development
Actively updated
latest 1.0.11, 2d ago
Community
11.1K GitHub stars
public signals
Usage data: latest readings Oct 21, 2026, last checked Oct 21, 06:33 UTC. Date of each number
What Hive does
It is free and open source (Apache-2.0); you pay only for the models it calls.
Key facts
| Maker | Aden |
|---|---|
| First released | January 2026 |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Main language | Python |
| Open issues and PRs | 1,091 |
Pricing
Open source under the Apache-2.0 licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
, checked Oct 20, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Quick answers
- Free to start?Yes
- Open source?Yes (Apache-2.0)
- Closest alternativeLangChain · all alternatives
What's new in Hive: October 2026 so far
October brought Hive 1.0, a major milestone introducing a two-phase colony model with shared tracking, playbooks for coordinated work, and scheduled execution. The release also included significant packaging improvements and a suite of developer and user-facing features.
Action needed: Packages renamed: aden-hive (was framework) and aden-tools (was tools); old names deprecated.
- Queens now work independently or run colonies with shared SQLite trackers and coordinated worker playbooks.
- Thirteen persona queens available, with six active by default and the ability to create custom ones.
- Scheduled colonies with cron, interval and webhook triggers, catching up on missed runs.
- MCP servers integrated as tools for agents, with flexible configuration and multiple running modes.
12 releases this month · summarised from the official release notes · all months
Add-ons for Hive: save tokens, add memory and tools
LiteLLM
One gateway for 100+ models with spend tracking, budgets, rate limits and fallbacks.
Langfuse
Traces every model and tool call with its cost and latency, and runs evaluations.
Firecrawl
Turns websites into clean Markdown or structured data the agent can read.
E2B
Runs agent-written code in isolated cloud sandboxes instead of on your machine.
Composio
Connects the agent to 1,000+ apps and APIs with managed sign-in.
Mem0
Adds long-term memory, so the agent remembers users and past work across sessions.
Listed because each tool documents support for Hive or for agent frameworks in general. Savings and results depend on your workload.
Hive alternatives
Best Hive alternatives compared · All agent frameworks and SDKs
| # | Agent | Gid Score | Downloads 7d | 7d | 30d | Stars | Latest release | Price | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
LangChainLangChain |
78 | 39.1M | down 0.5% | down 9.0% | 148K+73/day | 1.4.67d ago | Free (OSS) | |||
| 2 |
LangGraphLangChain |
71 | 14.4M | down 10.5% | up 4.6% | 43.6K+57/day | 1.2.165d ago | Free (OSS) | |||
| 3 |
AI SDKVercel |
64 | 18.4M | down 40.8% | up 27.5% | 27.4K+19/day | 5.0.279today | Free (OSS) | |||
| 4 | 63 | 8.8M | down 0.2% | up 3.4% | 8,887+14/day | 1.61.16d ago | Free (OSS) | ||||
| 5 |
Claude Agent SDKAnthropic |
61 | 15.1M | down 24.1% | down 0.5% | 8,315+7/day | 0.2.170today | Free (OSS) | |||
| 6 |
OpenAI Agents SDKOpenAI |
58 | 4.4M | down 17.4% | down 10.0% | 30.2K+26/day | 0.24.06d ago | Free (OSS) | |||
| No agents match that filter. | |||||||||||
Ratings from people who use Hive
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Hive news
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17 agents added to AgentGid
Hindsight, Cherry Studio, Google Workspace CLI, Cognee, Hypit, GenOffice, Ego Lite, cc-haha, Hive, Moli, Vibe-Trading, MemOS and 5 more
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Hive 1.0.11 released
MCP servers agents run from the terminal. An MCP server's tools load into every agent's tool; hive mcp add takes --env, --cwd, and the server's command after --, so a command; extrabody for workerllm and each queen's own model. Only the main model sent (+2…
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Hive 1.0.8 released
Turn context. A package registers a factory in the hive.turncontext entry-point group,; Recall of past conversations reads Chinese. It only took Latin letters and digits as search; A failed model call stays out of chat apps. A model gateway built on Hive can…
What changed: recent Hive releases
12 stable releases in the last 90 days · Monthly summary · Full changelog
- A queen's own model. Every queen used the main model (Settings → AI Model → LLM). Now a
- hive serve stops within seconds. Stopping it started a last memory reflection for every
- GET /api/queen/{queenid}/llm and PUT /api/queen/{queenid}/llm ({"section": {...} | null})
- LiteLLMProvider.reconfigure() takes an optional apikeyresolver, to replace the callable
Earlier releases
- ChannelHost.judge. The judge in Settings → AI Model → Judge (the judge slot, for
- The stall check now asks the judge through the same code. How it behaves is unchanged.
- Turn context. A package registers a factory in the hive.turncontext entry-point group,
- Recall of past conversations reads Chinese. It only took Latin letters and digits as search
- A failed model call stays out of chat apps. A model gateway built on Hive can answer a
- Stall check (Settings → Developer, off by default). Some models write "on it, running it
- The Judge slot (Settings → AI Model → Judge). It names a protocol, an endpoint, a model
- Runtime logs show the server's log. Settings → Developer → Runtime logs opens a drawer
- No first-run wizard. Without a model, the chat shows a one-line notice above the message
- The dashboard asked for an LLM key on every refresh when the key was saved as llm.apikey
- Channels. A package installed next to Hive can register a chat-app integration in the
- hive-cred, from the desktop runtime. A script fetches a credential when it uses it
- The credentials tool keeps collect, attach and detach. Its browse, inspect and
- A message that reached a queen while she was still starting (just after her session was
Hive popularity and usage data
The GitHub repository has 11.1K stars, 138 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.0.11, published Oct 19, 2026; there were 12 stable releases in the past 30 days.
Download the raw daily series: hive.csv
Gid Score breakdown
Adoption—
Community44
Attention—
Momentum51
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
How fresh these numbers are
| Number | Latest reading | Last checked |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | Oct 21, 2026 | Oct 21, 06:33 UTC |
We fetch every source once a day. Registries publish downloads and page views a day or two late, so their latest reading trails the check. A reading more than 4 days old is marked out of date; the Gid Score still uses it until a newer one arrives.
Hive FAQ
How much does Hive cost?
Open source under the Apache-2.0 licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.
Is Hive open source?
Yes. Hive is open source, released under the Apache-2.0 license.
How popular is Hive?
The GitHub repository has 11.1K stars, 138 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.0.11, published Oct 19, 2026; there were 12 stable releases in the past 30 days.
What is the latest version of Hive?
The latest stable release we track is 1.0.11, published on Oct 19, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Hive?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are LangChain, LangGraph, AI SDK, Strands Agents.
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Where these numbers come from
GitHub: aden-hive/hive. See data sources for how each one is collected.
Product facts and pricing were checked against: github.com.