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OpenAI Agents SDK vs AWS Strands Agents

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

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

AWS Strands Agents

AWS's model-driven, open-source agent SDK.

  • + Model-driven design keeps agents concise
  • + Tight AWS Bedrock and observability integration
  • − Leaned toward the AWS ecosystem
  • − Smaller community than LangGraph/CrewAI
Spec OpenAI Agents SDK AWS Strands Agents
Role Agent framework Agent framework
Tags agent-framework, library, orchestration, persona-solo-builder, persona-platform-engineer agent-framework, library, orchestration, persona-solo-builder, persona-platform-engineer
License MIT Apache-2.0
Open source Yes Yes
Self-hostable Yes Yes
MCP support Yes Yes
Pricing free free
Price Free Free
Usage cost Included BYOK
Models gpt byok
Languages python python
GitHub stars 27.6k 6.4k
Last activity 2026-07-04 2026-07-03