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 minimal Python framework for agent handoffs, not graphs.
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Pydantic AI
Type-safe Python agent framework built by 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 | — | — |
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| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Verdict | OpenAI's Agents SDK is the deliberately small option in a field of increasingly elaborate agent frameworks: a handoff pattern with guardrails and tracing gets you a working multi-agent setup in well under 100 lines, whic... |
Pydantic AI is the agent framework built by the team whose validation library already sits inside the OpenAI, Anthropic and Google SDKs, and that pedigree shows: structured output validation and dependency-injected testi... |
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