Comparison

Cloudflare Agents SDK vs DSPy

A like-for-like, spec-level comparison. Both entries are verified against their docs and repo.

Cloudflare Agents SDK

Stateful agents on Cloudflare Workers.

  • + Stateful agents on serverless edge
  • + Durable Objects give durable execution and alarms
  • − Cloudflare-locked runtime
  • − Newer mental model to learn

DSPy

Declarative, programmable prompt programming from Stanford.

  • + Compiles and optimizes prompts instead of hand-writing them
  • + Strong for repeatable, measurable prompt engineering
  • − Different mental model from typical agent frameworks
  • − Smaller ecosystem of tool integrations
Spec Cloudflare Agents SDK DSPy
Role Agent framework Agent framework
Tags agent-framework, hosted, orchestration agent-framework, library
License Apache-2.0 MIT
Open source Yes Yes
Self-hostable No Yes
MCP support Yes No
Pricing usage free
Starting price Cloudflare Workers free tier BYOK usage cost
Models claude, gpt, gemini, byok byok
Languages typescript python
GitHub stars 5.2k 35.5k
Last activity 2026-06-26 2026-06-25