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Agents tracked: 157 Downloads (7d): 216M up 9.6% GitHub stars: 4.2M VS Code installs: 145M Releases (7d): 233 Agent pull requests (last week): 940K Updated Oct 6, 2026
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OpenAI Agents SDK by OpenAI

Agent frameworks and SDKs #29 overall#9 in categoryOpen source · MIT
DocsGitHub
Pulse Score
54 / 100
Rank #29 of 157
Downloads, last 7 days
5.5M
up 7.7% vs previous week
Downloads, last 30 days
20.2M
down 46.4% vs previous 30 days
GitHub stars
29.8K
about +16 a day
Latest release
0.23.1
4d ago · 5 in 30 days
Price
Free (OSS)
checked Oct 5, 2026

Overview

OpenAI's lightweight framework for multi-agent workflows, with handoffs, guardrails, sessions and tracing. Available for Python and TypeScript.

OpenAI Agents SDK was downloaded 5.5M times from npm and PyPI in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, up 7.7% on the week before and down 46.4% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 29.8K stars, 688 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 0.23.1, published Oct 2, 2026; there were 5 stable releases in the past 30 days. It was mentioned in 15 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.

OpenAI Agents SDK usage and attention over time

Downloads per daynpm and PyPI, 7-day average 792K/day
GitHub starsrunning total 29.8K
Hacker News mentionsposts and comments, rolling 7-day total 1 this week

Download the raw daily series: openai-agents-sdk.csv

Install OpenAI Agents SDK

npmnpm install @openai/agents
PyPIpip install openai-agents

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

Key facts

MakerOpenAI
TypeVendor agent SDK
LicenseMIT
InterfacesPython library, TypeScript library
Main languagePython
Open issues and PRs5

Pricing

OpenAI Agents SDK 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

Adoption84
Community62
Attention17
Momentum4

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

What changed: recent OpenAI Agents SDK releases

17 stable releases in the last 90 days · Full changelog

0.23.1
  • restore release tests and refresh required readiness check (#5278) (730deb4)
  • Review mode: final candidate
  • Intended release: patch, 0.23.1
  • Minimum required release type: patch
  • Versioning verdict: compatible
  • 28 files changed (+622/-42): release automation, test fixtures, integration/example tooling, and release metadata.
0.23.0
  • mcp: add configurable MCP listing page limits (#5133) (9a21ab1)
  • sandbox: add opt-in Docker removal protection (#5116) (ae5803f)
  • sandbox: allow configuring memory consolidation turns (#5135) (daa1bcb)
  • sessions: add an opt-in encrypted history scan budget (#5118) (a2fdb94)
  • avoid awaiting cleanup during coroutine closure (#5163) (719c4e7)
  • ci: update and group CodeQL actions together (#5262) (f76153c)
0.22.3
  • fix(core): align conditional approvals with validated tool arguments
  • fix(core): deliver tool-not-found output on server-managed resume
  • fix(sandbox): keep command paths POSIX on a Windows host
  • fix(sessions): handle concurrent async SQLite startup
  • fix(sessions): do not forward session limit as Conversations page size
  • fix(tracing): do not cache a missing OPENAIAPIKEY
0.22.2
  • feat: support current image generation tool options
  • fix(sandbox): prevent UnixLocal file API symlink races
  • fix(sessions): reset compaction response chain after pop
  • docs: document v0.22.1 behavior updates
  • release: 0.22.2
0.22.1
  • feat(core): support image results in web search tools
  • feat(core): customize output guardrail blocked messages
  • feat(mcp): add server-wide guardrails to MCP tools
  • feat(sandbox): add configurable Unix-local environment isolation
  • feat(sandbox): allow labels on Docker sandbox containers
  • feat(voice): expose streamed transcription options
0.22.0
  • Redacts terminal function-tool output rejected by agent output guardrails from replayable and persisted SDK state.
  • Raises ModelBehaviorError for non-streaming Responses with terminal status failed or incomplete.
  • Rejects conflicting provider options when OpenAIProvider receives an explicit client.
  • Isolates usage accounting between independent RunState checkpoints while preserving nested-agent aggregation.
  • Expands agents registered through handoff(agent) in generated graphs.
  • Clarifies the existing shallow-copy behavior of Agent.clone() and RealtimeAgent.clone().

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Guides that cover OpenAI Agents SDK

How to Build an AI Agent: No-Code Builders, Frameworks and SDKs

A practical guide to building your first AI agent: choosing between no-code builders, open-source frameworks and model vendors' SDKs, the core agent loop, tools, guardrails and testing, with live usage data for each option.

5 min read

OpenAI Agents SDK FAQ

How much does OpenAI Agents SDK cost?

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

Is OpenAI Agents SDK open source?

Yes. OpenAI Agents SDK is open source, released under the MIT license.

How popular is OpenAI Agents SDK?

OpenAI Agents SDK was downloaded 5.5M times from npm and PyPI in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, up 7.7% on the week before and down 46.4% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 29.8K stars, 688 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 0.23.1, published Oct 2, 2026; there were 5 stable releases in the past 30 days.

What is the latest version of OpenAI Agents SDK?

The latest stable release we track is 0.23.1, published on Oct 2, 2026.

What are the alternatives to OpenAI Agents SDK?

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

Where these numbers come from

npm: @openai/agents. PyPI: openai-agents. GitHub: openai/openai-agents-python. See data sources for how each one is collected.