Google Agent Development Kit
Agent framework from Google for building AI agents.
Agent, MCP and tool libraries PyPI Apache-2.0
How Google Agent Development Kit is used
Google Agent Development Kit is a dependency in 8 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 213 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is LangChain (126 projects). Projects that use it most often also use python-dotenv (66.7%), Google GenAI Python SDK (53.5%), FastAPI (53.1%).
Google Agent Development Kit popularity over time
Gid Score 64: downloads 72, use in agent projects 62, GitHub stars 63, downloads trend 52 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Google Agent Development Kit
| python-dotenv | 66.7% of Google Agent Development Kit projects · 7.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| Google GenAI Python SDK | 53.5% of Google Agent Development Kit projects · 32.6× more than average |
| FastAPI | 53.1% of Google Agent Development Kit projects · 7.1× more than average |
| Uvicorn | 51.6% of Google Agent Development Kit projects · 6.7× more than average |
| Pydantic | 47.9% of Google Agent Development Kit projects · 5.5× more than average |
| Requests | 35.7% of Google Agent Development Kit projects · 5.2× more than average |
| Google Cloud AI Platform | 31.9% of Google Agent Development Kit projects · 180.2× more than average |
| Model Context Protocol SDK (Python) | 31.0% of Google Agent Development Kit projects · 3.9× more than average |
From all 213 projects in our scan that use Google Agent Development Kit, including the dependency samples.
Install
| Package | pip install google-adk |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (210), Next.js (3) |
| Example projects | sinanuozdemir/oreilly-ai-agents, pipixia-labs/openteamwork, arjunprabhulal/adk-vertex-ai-rag-engine, rachedblili/AgentExamples, bhancockio/adk-voice-agent |
Alternatives to Google Agent Development Kit
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Google Agent Development Kit are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LangChain pypi Framework for composing applications with LLMs through chains and agents. |
88 | 126 (7.8%) | 37.3M | 148K | MIT |
| Pydantic AI pypi AI agent framework built with Pydantic for structured, typed agent development. |
62 | 16 (1.0%) | 1.5M | 20.7K | MIT |
| smolagents pypi Barebones library for building agents that write Python code to call tools. |
46 | 5 (0.3%) | 113K | — | — |
| CrewAI pypi Framework for orchestrating collaborative AI agents to solve complex autonomous tasks. |
62 | 3 (0.2%) | 669K | 59.9K | MIT |
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