OpenAI Agents SDK vs Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)
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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Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Google's open-source, code-first framework for multi-agent AI
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8 / 10 | 7.8 / 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 | Apache-2.0 framework free in all five languages. Agent Runtime includes 50 vCPU-hours and 100 GiB-hours of memory free per month |
| Paid from | — | Framework free, Agent Runtime hosting $0.085 per vCPU-hour after 50 free hours a month |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2025 | 2025 |
| Maker | OpenAI | Google (Alphabet) |
| 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... |
ADK is Google's most serious agent framework: five language SDKs, a built-in ADK Web dev UI, evaluation tooling and, in ADK 2.0, a graph-based workflow runtime that gives explicit control over multi-agent orchestration i... |
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