- agent-framework-foundry-hosting: Host native workflows over Foundry Responses and Foundry Invocations (#8947,
- agent-framework-duckdb, agent-framework-sql-server, agent-framework-typesafe: Add DuckDB and SQL Server native vector-store connectors and the TypeSafe AI connector (#8675, #8686,
- agent-framework, agent-framework-core: Add response-stream gates and buffering, session-scoped file-access isolation, an AgentExecutor checkpoint-state TypedDict, and opt-in…
- agent-framework-foundry, agent-framework-foundry-hosting, agent-framework-openai: Add native computer-use support to Responses clients and Foundry project embeddings (#8751,
- agent-framework-azure-ai-search: Support knowledgesourceparams in AzureAISearchContextProvider
- agent-framework-mongodb, samples: Add a MongoDB agent RAG sample
Microsoft Agent Framework by Microsoft
Pulse Score
35 / 100
Rank #82 of 157
Downloads, last 7 days
55.5K
up 5.8% vs previous week
Downloads, last 30 days
191K
— vs previous 30 days
GitHub stars
14K
about +15 a day
Latest release
1.20.0
4d ago · 6 in 30 days
Price
Free (OSS)
checked Oct 5, 2026
Overview
Microsoft's open-source SDK for building, orchestrating and deploying agents and multi-agent workflows in Python and .NET. It is the successor to both AutoGen and Semantic Kernel.
Microsoft Agent Framework was downloaded 55.5K times from PyPI in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, up 5.8% on the week before. Its download count moved to a different level overnight on Aug 26, 2026. A jump like that comes from automated installs switching on or off or from a change in how the registry counts, so growth rates across that date are not shown. The GitHub repository has 14K stars, 629 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.20.0, published Oct 2, 2026; there were 6 stable releases in the past 30 days. It was mentioned in 1 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.
Microsoft Agent Framework usage and attention over time
Download the raw daily series: microsoft-agent-framework.csv
Install Microsoft Agent Framework
| PyPI | pip install agent-framework |
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These commands use the packages tracked on this page. The vendor may recommend a different installer; see the official documentation.
Key facts
| Maker | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Type | Multi-agent framework |
| License | MIT |
| Interfaces | Python library, .NET library |
| Main language | Python |
| Open issues and PRs | 757 |
Pricing
Microsoft Agent Framework 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
Adoption39
Community48
Attention0
Momentum52
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
What changed: recent Microsoft Agent Framework releases
22 stable releases in the last 90 days · Full changelog
- be01deccaf3dd7b85e03620145bc1a757c857827 .NET: Add origin pinning to Foundry toolbox MCP client (#8721)
- 0d6d2bb6b0b58f3aabdf170320ab90fc300d4c99 .NET: fix: declarative workflow http variables (#8797)
- 2024d4df4c4dd01b904fb9daaf56f5759801654a .NET: Fix workflow topology edge multiplicity comparison (#8656)
- 37ce872a85fed62cedfd7fffa2e0bd43f7d32b92 .NET: Store created external input messages (#8606)
- 1370903bd8e6eb8871781cd1fcc74f674c022e0b .NET: [BREAKING] Better support tool changes between runs (#8754)
- 3f1f3b50b57ccabe7725f8a60539622d5f1ca7b4 .NET: Propagate TextSearchProvider caller cancellation (#8796)
- .NET: fix: race concdition in workflow formula state
- .NET: update remaining dependencies
- .NET: fix: inspect for delemiter value before adding headers
- docs: fix 'availble' typo in ADR 0001
- .NET: docs: use 'a FunctionApprovalRequestContent' in ADR 0006
- .NET: docs: fix 'valueable' typo in ADR 0001
- agent-framework, agent-framework-core: Add generic vector-store provider protocols, instrumentation message-event controls, and per-tool AgentModeProvider exposure controls (#8421, #8451, #8450)
- agent-framework-mongodb: Add the alpha MongoDB vector-store connector (#8184)
- agent-framework-azure-documentdb: Add the alpha Azure DocumentDB vector-store connector (#8185)
- agent-framework-azure-cosmos, agent-framework-core: Add an Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL implementation of the shared vector-store APIs (#8186)
- agent-framework-orchestrations: Add stable names for built-in orchestration workflows and register their checkpoint types for restoration (#8384, #8258)
- agent-framework-devui: Display Aspire traces in the developer UI (#7874)
- .NET: Replace deprecated AWSSDK.Extensions.Bedrock.MEAI with AWS.Bedrock.MEAI
- .NET: Remove Azure.AI.OpenAI dependency
- .NET: Track and update A2A task state
- .NET: Update Azure AI Projects to 3.0.0 beta 1
- .NET: Bump Aspire.Hosting from 13.5.2 to 13.5.3
- .NET: [BREAKING] Add fileaccessreadlines and move the line-numbering contract onto AgentFileStore
- samples: Add Magentic custom-manager prompts and MLflow observability examples (#7876, #8085)
- agent-framework-core: Add shared vector-store abstractions, portable filters, and an in-memory vector store (#8014, #8115)
- agent-framework-core: Add a maximum-duration bound and stop-reason signal to the tool invocation loop (#7772)
- agent-framework-core: Support mixed workflow invocation keyword arguments (#7963)
- agent-framework-ag-ui: Add emitmessagessnapshot configuration for suppressing the terminal message snapshot (#7808)
- agent-framework-ag-ui, agent-framework-core: Add supported MCP Host-history conversion for persisted AG-UI conversations (#8130)
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| 11 |
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Microsoft Agent Framework FAQ
How much does Microsoft Agent Framework cost?
Microsoft Agent Framework is open source and free to use; you pay only for the models and infrastructure it runs on.
Is Microsoft Agent Framework open source?
Yes. Microsoft Agent Framework is open source, released under the MIT license.
How popular is Microsoft Agent Framework?
Microsoft Agent Framework was downloaded 55.5K times from PyPI in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, up 5.8% on the week before. Its download count moved to a different level overnight on Aug 26, 2026. A jump like that comes from automated installs switching on or off or from a change in how the registry counts, so growth rates across that date are not shown. The GitHub repository has 14K stars, 629 of them added in the last 30 days.
What is the latest version of Microsoft Agent Framework?
The latest stable release we track is 1.20.0, published on Oct 2, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Microsoft Agent Framework?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Pulse Score are LangChain, LangGraph, AI SDK, Strands Agents.
Where these numbers come from
PyPI: agent-framework. GitHub: microsoft/agent-framework. See data sources for how each one is collected.