LangGraph vs Deep Agents
LangGraph (LangChain) and Deep Agents (LangChain) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
LangGraph has 8.2x the weekly package downloads of Deep Agents (16.1M against 2M). LangGraph has 1.4x the GitHub stars of Deep Agents (42.7K against 30K). Over the last 30 days downloads moved -22% for LangGraph and +5% for Deep Agents. LangGraph shipped 5 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | LangGraph | Deep Agents |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 69 | 57 |
| Overall rank | #10 | #23 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 16.1M | 2M |
| Downloads, 7-day change | up 11.4% | up 13.5% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | down 21.8% | up 5.0% |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 42.7K | 30K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 74 | 15 |
| Latest stable release | 1.2.13 · yesterday | 0.7.22 · yesterday |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 5 | |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | 66.5% · v2.0 |
| Price | Free (OSS) | Free (OSS) |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| First released | — | — |
| Interfaces | Python library, JavaScript library | Python library, JavaScript library |
| Models |
Trends
LangGraph
A low-level orchestration framework for building stateful agents as graphs, with durable execution, persistence and human-in-the-loop steps. Available for Python and JavaScript.
Pricing: LangGraph is open source and free to use; you pay only for the models and infrastructure it runs on.
Latest release 1.2.13:
- fix(langgraph): fork before replaying an update checkpoint the thread moved past
- fix(langgraph): keep an updatestate on an older checkpoint out of its other branches
- fix(langgraph): keep DeltaChannel counters on every updatestate path
- release(langgraph): 1.2.13
Deep Agents
A batteries-included agent harness built on LangGraph, with planning, a virtual file system and sub-agents for long-running tasks.
Pricing: Deep Agents is open source and free to use; you pay only for the models and infrastructure it runs on.
Latest release 0.7.22:
- Load a skill’s tools only when the skill is read.
- Reset stale encoding when overwriting text.
- dcba425 release(deepagents): 0.7.22
- 337f4d0 chore(deps): raise dependency minimums for all