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Cloudflare Agents SDK vs Smolagents

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

Smolagents

Hugging Face's minimalist code-writing agents.

  • + Minimal and easy to reason about
  • + Code-as-action avoids JSON tool schemas
  • − Less orchestration than LangGraph
  • − Executing agent code needs sandboxing
Spec Cloudflare Agents SDK Smolagents
Category framework framework
License Apache-2.0 Apache-2.0
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 claude, gpt, gemini, local, byok
Languages typescript python
GitHub stars 5.2k 28.0k
Last activity 2026-06-25 2026-06-23