OpenAI Assistants API vs Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
OpenAI Assistants API
OpenAI's stateful agent API, shut down on 26 August 2026
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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 | 5 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Unknown | Open Source |
| Free tier | — | 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 | Not sold — shut down 26 Aug 2026 (successor: Responses API, billed per token) | 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 | 2023 | 2025 |
| Maker | OpenAI | Google (Alphabet) |
| Verdict | The Assistants API is gone. OpenAI shut it down on 26 August 2026 after a year's notice, and its old endpoints no longer answer. In its day it was a quick way to ship a stateful assistant, because threads, retrieval and... |
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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