LangGraph vs OpenAI Agents SDK
LangGraph (LangChain) and OpenAI Agents SDK (OpenAI) side by side on public data, as of Oct 8, 2026.
LangGraph has 2.9x the weekly package downloads of OpenAI Agents SDK (16.1M against 5.5M). LangGraph has 1.4x the GitHub stars of OpenAI Agents SDK (42.9K against 29.9K). Over the last 30 days downloads moved -18% for LangGraph and -44% for OpenAI Agents SDK. LangGraph shipped 6 stable releases in the past 90 days. OpenAI Agents SDK shipped 16 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | LangGraph | OpenAI Agents SDK |
|---|---|---|
| Gid Score | 69 | 54 |
| Overall rank | #10 | #32 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | 16.1M | 5.5M |
| Downloads, 7-day change | up 7.9% | up 4.3% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | down 18.1% | down 43.5% |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 42.9K | 29.9K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 79 | 15 |
| Latest stable release | 1.2.14 · 2d ago | 0.23.1 · 6d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 6 | 16 |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free (OSS) | Free (OSS) |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| First released | — | — |
| Interfaces | Python library, JavaScript library | Python library, TypeScript 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 1.2.14:
- release(langgraph): 1.2.14
OpenAI Agents SDK
OpenAI's lightweight framework for multi-agent workflows, with handoffs, guardrails, sessions and tracing. Available for Python and TypeScript.
Pricing: OpenAI Agents SDK is open source and free to use; you pay only for the models and infrastructure it runs on.
Latest release 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