LangGraph vs OpenAI Assistants API

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

LangGraph Open-source graph framework for durable, stateful AI agents Visit OpenAI Assistants API OpenAI's stateful agent API — shut down 26 Aug 2026 Visit
RECATOOLS Score 8.3 / 10 5 / 10
Capability 8.5 7
Value for money 8 4
Ease of use 6 6
ASEAN readiness 6.5 6
API quality 8.5 8
Pricing Freemium Paid
Free tier
Paid from
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users
Founded 2023
Maker
Verdict

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...

The Assistants API gave developers managed conversation threads, built-in code interpreter, file retrieval and tool calling without hand-rolling orchestration, and a lot of production assistants from non-AI-native compan...

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