LangChain vs Strands Agents
LangChain (LangChain) and Strands Agents (AWS) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
LangChain has 5.1x the weekly package downloads of Strands Agents (44.3M against 8.7M). LangChain has 17.0x the GitHub stars of Strands Agents (147K against 8,679). Over the last 30 days downloads moved -22% for LangChain and +2% for Strands Agents. LangChain shipped 14 stable releases in the past 90 days. Strands Agents shipped 43 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | LangChain | Strands Agents |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 77 | 63 |
| Overall rank | #4 | #13 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 44.3M | 8.7M |
| Downloads, 7-day change | up 1.9% | up 0.6% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | down 22.0% | up 2.0% |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 147K | 8,679 |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 73 | 0 |
| Latest stable release | 1.4.3 · 8d ago | 1.58.0 · yesterday |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 14 | 43 |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free (OSS) | Free (OSS) |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| First released | — | — |
| Interfaces | Python library, JavaScript library | Python library, TypeScript library |
| Models |
Trends
LangChain
A framework for building LLM applications and agents from composable parts: model integrations, tools, retrievers and prebuilt agent abstractions. Available for Python and JavaScript.
Pricing: LangChain is open source and free to use; you pay only for the models and infrastructure it runs on.
Latest release 1.4.3:
- Changes since langchain==1.4.2
- release(langchain): 1.4.3 (#40888) fix(langchain): sanitize cache settings for fallback models (#40886) feat(langchain): support Bedrock Mantle chat models in initchatmodel (#40837)…
Strands Agents
An open-source SDK from AWS for building and controlling agents in Python and TypeScript.
Pricing: Strands Agents is open source and free to use; you pay only for the models and infrastructure it runs on.
Latest release 1.58.0:
- feat(ts): port mcprouter vended tool to TypeScript (#4448) (ec86d614d)
- feat(bidi): normalize token usage events (#4886) (3973d1cb8)
- feat(multiagent): migrate agent axis policies to SDKs (#4714) (d87a0718a)
- feat(stop): use agent.cancel() to stop the event loop (#3506) (5e82809b3)