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 minimal Python framework for agent handoffs, not graphs.
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Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Google's multi-language, code-first AI agent framework
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | — | — |
| Paid from | — | — |
| 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... |
ADK is Google's most technically serious agent framework, and it shows in the surface area: stable SDKs for Python, Go, Java, TypeScript and Kotlin, a built-in ADK Web debugger, and a Python repo that has passed 20,000 G... |
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