OpenAI Swarm
OpenAI's experimental multi-agent framework
Overview
Swarm is OpenAI's lightweight experimental framework for multi-agent orchestration — agents hand off to each other with context. Open-source (MIT). Positioned as 'educational' rather than production-ready, but widely studied.
Pricing
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Use cases
ASEAN Perspective
OpenAI Swarm in Southeast Asia
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Swarm was OpenAI's deliberately minimal, educational multi-agent framework demonstrating clean handoff and routine abstractions in under a thousand lines. Its ideas were influential and the codebase is still a good teaching resource for understanding agent handoffs.
Critically, Swarm is deprecated: OpenAI explicitly replaced it with the production-ready Agents SDK (openai-agents-python/-js), which carries the same handoff model plus guardrails, tracing, sessions and hosted tools. The Swarm README itself now redirects users to the SDK. New projects should use the Agents SDK, not Swarm. Swarm was never production-intended and had no support guarantees. Free and open-source, global/English. Treat this entry as historical; build on the successor.
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