Agno vs Haystack
On the evidence we track, Haystack leads this comparison with a composite score of 66/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for multi agent orchestration. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Agno
An open-source platform that provides a framework (SDK) and runtime (AgentOS) for creating, deploying, and managing AI agents, teams, and workflows. It includes 100+ pre-built toolkits, multi-provider LLM support, and a web-based control plane for monitoring and governance.
Haystack
LeaderA Python-based orchestration framework for building production-ready AI applications with modular pipelines, agent workflows, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Provides explicit control over retrieval, reasoning, memory, tools, and generation components, supporting everything from simple semantic search to complex multi-step agent systems.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Agno
Free open source, $150/mo Pro plan, custom Enterprise pricing. No hidden fees.
- FreeFree
- Build multi-agent systems
- Run agent systems using AgentOS
- Local AgentOS Control Plane
- Chat with agents, teams and workflows
- Session monitoring & metrics
- +5 more
- Pro$150/mo with 4 seats, 1 live connection
- Everything in Free
- Live AgentOS Control Plane
- 1 live connection included
- 4 total seats included
- Unlimited usage, monitoring, retention
- +2 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- Everything in Pro
- Dedicated Slack channel
- Dedicated technical lead
- Support SLA
- Custom SSO and RBAC
- +2 more
Haystack
LeaderFree open-source core with paid enterprise support available
- Open SourceFree
- EnterpriseContact sales
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- OpenAI
- Claude
Agno
- GitHub
- Slack
- Postgres
- Telegram
- Discord
- Google Drive
- CopilotKit
- MCP
- Claude Code
- Claude Desktop
- Cursor
- Codex
- ChatGPT
- Cloudflare AI Gateway
- Railway
- Docker
- AWS
- GCP
- Azure
- Fly
- Render
- Modal
- Helm
- +10 more
Haystack
Leader- Anthropic
- Mistral
- Hugging Face
- Weaviate
- Pinecone
- Elasticsearch
- AstraDB
- Apify
- ReadMe
- Azure OpenAI
- Datadog
- OpenTelemetry
- SerperDev
- SearchApi
- Cohere
- AWS Bedrock
- FAISS
- AWS SageMaker
- OpenSearch
- Google Colab
- MCP servers
- Amazon Bedrock
- Amazon S3
- Meta
- +2 more
Agno or Haystack: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.