AutoGen by Microsoft vs Microsoft Agent Framework vs LangGraph vs CrewAI

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

AutoGen by Microsoft Microsoft's open-source multi-agent framework Visit Microsoft Agent Framework Open-source SDK unifying Semantic Kernel and AutoGen Visit LangGraph Open-source graph framework for durable, stateful AI agents Visit CrewAI Framework for orchestrating teams of AI agents Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7.5 / 10 7.7 / 10 8.3 / 10 7.6 / 10
Capability 8 8 8.5 8
Value for money 9 8 8 8
Ease of use 5 7 6 6
ASEAN readiness 8 6.5 6.5 6
API quality 7 8 8.5 8
Pricing Open Source Open Source Freemium Open Source
Free tier Fully free open source framework
Paid from
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users 20m+ downloads
Founded 2023 2023
Maker Joao Moura
Verdict

AutoGen is Microsoft's open-source framework for building multi-agent LLM applications, enabling agents that converse, use tools, and collaborate to solve tasks, with an event-driven core, AgentChat layer, and Studio UI....

Microsoft finally stopped shipping two competing agent frameworks. Agent Framework 1.0, released April 7, 2026, folds AutoGen's orchestration patterns into Semantic Kernel's enterprise foundation — session-based state, m...

LangGraph has genuine production mileage that most agent frameworks can only cite in a blog post: Klarna's customer-support assistant runs on it at 85 million users, Replit Agent's multi-step app-building flow is built o...

CrewAI is the most-starred open-source framework for building multi-agent systems — spin up agents with roles, goals and tools, then orchestrate them into "crews" or sequential flows. Version 1.14 (April 2026) dropped th...

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