Comparison

Cloudflare Agents SDK vs OpenAI Agents SDK

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

OpenAI Agents SDK

OpenAI's lightweight agents SDK (Swarm successor).

  • + Minimal and readable abstraction
  • + First-class OpenAI tracing and guardrails
  • − OpenAI models first
  • − Young ecosystem
Spec Cloudflare Agents SDK OpenAI Agents SDK
Category framework framework
License Apache-2.0 MIT
Open source Yes Yes
Self-hostable No Yes
MCP support Yes Yes
Pricing usage free
Starting price Cloudflare Workers free tier BYOK usage cost
Models claude, gpt, gemini, byok gpt
Languages typescript python
GitHub stars 5.2k 27.4k
Last activity 2026-06-25 2026-06-24