# Agno vs Haystack

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Haystack

| Attribute | Agno | Haystack |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 58 (24% (low)) | 65.8 (68% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 237 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 26,738 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 121,930 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"An open-source framework and managed platform that enables teams to build, deploy, and manage agent platforms while maintaining full control over data, security, and infrastructure. It is indexed under AI Agent Frameworks.","source":"https://www.agno.com/pricing","question":"What is Agno?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Agno offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $150 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.agno.com/pricing","question":"Is Agno free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Agno supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://www.agno.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does Agno support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Agno can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.agno.com/pricing","question":"Can Agno be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 28 integrations for Agno, including GitHub, Slack, Postgres, Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, Google Drive and CopilotKit, plus 20 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.agno.com/pricing","question":"What does Agno integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for Agno. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Agno not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.agno.com/pricing","question":"What security certifications does Agno have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Agno is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.agno.com/pricing","question":"Where is Agno available?","confidence":0.5}]` | `[{"answer":"A Python-based orchestration tool for creating and deploying intelligent applications powered by language models. Developers assemble reusable components (data retrieval, model integration, tool execution) into customizable workflows, from question-answering systems to multi-step autonomous agents, deployable on private infrastructure or in the cloud. It is indexed under MLOps & LLMOps Tools.","source":"https://haystack.deepset.ai","question":"What is Haystack?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Haystack is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Paid editions are also offered: Enterprise Starter and Enterprise Platform, priced on request. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://haystack.deepset.ai","question":"Is Haystack free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Haystack. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://haystack.deepset.ai","question":"What platforms does Haystack support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Haystack can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://haystack.deepset.ai","question":"Can Haystack be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 21 integrations for Haystack, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Hugging Face, Weaviate, Pinecone, Elasticsearch and AstraDB, plus 13 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://haystack.deepset.ai","question":"What does Haystack integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Haystack is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack","question":"Is Haystack open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | A 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"a2a_support":true,"mcp_support":true,"open_source":true,"pricing_model":"open-source-self-host","deployment_model":"library-self-hosted","streaming_output":true,"human_in_the_loop":true,"structured_output":true,"multi_language_sdk":true,"memory_architecture":"persistent","orchestration_model":"multi-agent-hierarchical","architecture_paradigm":"conversational_hierarchy","tool_function_calling":true,"code_execution_sandbox":true,"model_provider_agnostic":true,"mit_or_apache_permissive_oss_license":true,"native_observability_and_trace_logging":true,"fault_tolerance_and_llm_retry_mechanisms":true,"native_memory_and_state_persistence_layer":true,"tool_calling_and_function_schema_validation":true,"managed_cloud_runtime_infrastructure_offered":true,"synchronous_and_asynchronous_execution_modes":true,"streaming_output_and_intermediate_step_yielding":true,"dynamic_agent_generation_and_spawning_at_runtime":true}` | `{"role":"platform","evaluation":true,"managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"pricing_model":"free_open_source","self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"otel_compatible":true,"no_train_on_data":"unknown","llm_observability":true,"prompt_management":true,"framework_agnostic":true,"architecture_paradigm":"graph_based_cycles","mit_or_apache_permissive_oss_license":true,"native_observability_and_trace_logging":true,"native_memory_and_state_persistence_layer":true,"tool_calling_and_function_schema_validation":true,"managed_cloud_runtime_infrastructure_offered":true,"dynamic_agent_generation_and_spawning_at_runtime":true}` |
| integrations.count | 17 | 9 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Postgres"},{"name":"Telegram"},{"name":"WhatsApp"},{"name":"Discord"},{"name":"Google Drive"},{"name":"CopilotKit"},{"name":"MCP"},{"name":"Claude Code"},{"name":"Claude Desktop"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"Codex"},{"name":"ChatGPT"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Cloudflare AI Gateway"},{"name":"Railway"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"Fly"},{"name":"Render"},{"name":"Modal"},{"name":"Helm"},{"name":"PostgreSQL","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Salesforce","native":true,"category":"crm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Claude","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"ScrapeGraphAI","native":true,"category":"data_extraction","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"LangGraph","native":true,"category":"framework","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Notion","native":true,"direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Gemini","native":true,"direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Ollama","native":true,"direction":"outbound"},{"name":"OpenRouter","native":true,"direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Moonshot","native":true,"direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Parallel","native":true,"direction":"outbound"}]` | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"Weaviate"},{"name":"Pinecone"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"AstraDB"},{"name":"Apify"},{"name":"ReadMe"},{"name":"Azure OpenAI"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"SerperDev"},{"name":"SearchApi"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock"},{"name":"FAISS"},{"name":"AWS SageMaker"},{"name":"OpenSearch"},{"name":"Google Colab"},{"name":"MCP servers"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Claude","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Amazon S3","native":true,"category":"data","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Meta","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Stability AI","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"AI21 Labs","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"outbound"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Python |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free, open source (Apache-2.0)","features":["Build multi-agent systems","Run agent systems using AgentOS","Local AgentOS Control Plane","Chat with agents, teams and workflows","Session monitoring & metrics","Knowledge & memory management","System evaluations","Pre-built production-ready codebases","Community support and forums","Documentation"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Open source tier for building agent systems locally","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$150/mo with 4 seats, 1 live connection","features":["Everything in Free","Live AgentOS Control Plane","1 live connection included","4 total seats included","Unlimited usage, monitoring, retention","Unlimited knowledge & memories","Unlimited chats"],"minSeats":4,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":150,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Managed platform for production agent systems","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"chats":"unlimited","seats":"4","usage":"unlimited","memories":"unlimited","knowledge":"unlimited","retention":"unlimited","monitoring":"unlimited","live_connections":"1"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing, contact sales","features":["Everything in Pro","Dedicated Slack channel","Dedicated technical lead","Support SLA","Custom SSO and RBAC","Custom agent solutions","Self-hosted Control Plane"],"description":"Custom solution for mission-critical deployments","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Additional seats","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":30,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Additional live connections","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"connection","amount":95,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free open source, $150/mo Pro plan, custom Enterprise pricing. No hidden fees.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.agno.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T12:47:22.989Z","startingPrice":{"amount":150,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Open Source","description":"Free, open-source AI framework with community support","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","description":"Enterprise support with exclusive access to data workflows, testing tools, and scalable cloud or on-premise deployment","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free open-source core with paid enterprise support available","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://haystack.deepset.ai","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T22:38:13.832Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | high | low |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":150,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| release.cadence_days | - | 2 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v3.3.0","date":"2026-10-01T10:39:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v3.3.0-rc1","date":"2026-09-30T13:33:59Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.3.0-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v3.2.0","date":"2026-09-24T10:49:36Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v3.2.0-rc1","date":"2026-09-23T12:24:18Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.2.0-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v3.1.1","date":"2026-09-03T09:27:52Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.1.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v3.1.1-rc1","date":"2026-09-03T07:27:21Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.1.1-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v3.1.0","date":"2026-08-24T15:19:09Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v3.1.0-rc3","date":"2026-08-21T15:31:26Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.1.0-rc3"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v3.1.0-rc2","date":"2026-08-21T14:30:15Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.1.0-rc2"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v3.1.0-rc1","date":"2026-08-18T09:09:17Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.1.0-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v3.0.0","date":"2026-07-20T12:07:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v3.0.0-rc1","date":"2026-07-20T09:04:49Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.0.0-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v2.31.0","date":"2026-07-08T11:34:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.31.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v2.31.0-rc2","date":"2026-07-07T08:18:58Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v2.31.0-rc2"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v2.31.0-rc1","date":"2026-07-07T06:24:07Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v2.31.0-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v2.30.2","date":"2026-06-18T08:36:45Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.30.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v2.30.2-rc1","date":"2026-06-17T14:32:06Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v2.30.2-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v2.30.1","date":"2026-06-09T13:26:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.30.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v2.30.1-rc1","date":"2026-06-09T12:45:47Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v2.30.1-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/releases/tag/v2.30.0","date":"2026-06-03T10:21:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.30.0"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 9.4 |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":1,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=farm-haystack&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"CRITICAL"}` |

## Capabilities (Multi Agent Orchestration)

| Capability | Agno | Haystack |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Architecture paradigm | Conversational hierarchy | Graph based cycles |
| Native memory and state persistence layer | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dynamic agent generation and spawning at runtime | ✓ | ✓ |
| Synchronous and asynchronous execution modes | ✓ | - |
| Tool calling and function schema validation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Streaming output and intermediate step yielding | ✓ | - |
| Fault tolerance and LLM retry mechanisms | ✓ | - |
| Managed cloud runtime infrastructure offered | ✓ | ✓ |
| Native observability and trace logging | ✓ | ✓ |
| SOC2 type ii | - | - |
| Mit or apache permissive oss license | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pricing model | open-source-self-host | Free open source |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-17T05:42:08.159Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*