OpenAI Agents SDK vs Pydantic AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
OpenAI Agents SDK
OpenAI's small-footprint framework for agents, handoffs and guardrails...
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Pydantic AI
Type-safe Python agent framework from the Pydantic team
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8 / 10 | 8.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free and open source (MIT) in Python and JavaScript/TypeScript; model API usage is billed separately by OpenAI or another provider | Free and open source (MIT) Python framework; Logfire Personal plan free up to 10M telemetry records/month |
| Paid from | — | Framework free, optional Logfire observability from $49/month |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2025 | 2024 |
| Maker | OpenAI | Pydantic Services Inc. |
| Verdict | The Agents SDK is the straightforward choice for teams building on OpenAI models in code: a small set of primitives, built-in tracing, and a runtime that manages turns, tools, handoffs and sessions so you do not write th... |
Pydantic AI brings the Pydantic team's typing discipline to agents: validated structured outputs, dependency injection for testing, a model-agnostic interface and durable execution on eight engines. Version 2 reorganised... |
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