OpenAI Agents SDK
Lightweight multi-agent workflows with handoffs.
A minimal SDK for agents, handoffs, guardrails and tracing; provider-agnostic.
- Vendor
- OpenAI
- Category
- Agent frameworks
- Pricing
- Open source
- Open source
- Yes
- License
- MIT
- Platforms
- Python, TypeScript
- Launched
- 2025
- Website
- openai.github.io/openai-agents-python
Features
- Handoffs
- Guardrails
- Built-in tracing
Best for
- Agents
Works with
- GPT-6.1 Sol — OpenAI. Mid-tier GPT-6 model with excellent cost per task for agentic coding.
- GPT-6 Luna — OpenAI. Fast, cost-efficient GPT-6 tier for chat, classification and light agents.
More agent frameworks
- Model Context Protocol — Anthropic (open standard). The open standard for connecting AI to tools and data.
- LangGraph — LangChain. Stateful, controllable agent orchestration.
- Claude Agent SDK — Anthropic. The agent harness behind Claude Code, as a library.
- CrewAI — CrewAI. Role-based multi-agent crews.
- Agent Development Kit — Google. Google’s open-source framework for multi-agent systems.
- Pydantic AI — Pydantic. Type-safe agent framework for Python.
- Microsoft Agent Framework — Microsoft. Successor to AutoGen and Semantic Kernel.
- Mastra — Mastra. The TypeScript agent framework.