LangGraph vs LangChain
LangGraph (LangChain) and LangChain (LangChain) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
LangChain has 2.7x the weekly package downloads of LangGraph (44.3M against 16.1M). LangChain has 3.4x the GitHub stars of LangGraph (147K against 42.7K). Over the last 30 days downloads moved -22% for LangGraph and -22% for LangChain. LangGraph shipped 5 stable releases in the past 90 days. LangChain shipped 14 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | LangGraph | LangChain |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 69 | 77 |
| Overall rank | #10 | #4 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 16.1M | 44.3M |
| Downloads, 7-day change | up 11.4% | up 1.9% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | down 21.8% | down 22.0% |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 42.7K | 147K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 74 | 73 |
| Latest stable release | 1.2.13 · yesterday | 1.4.3 · 8d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 5 | 14 |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| 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
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)…