Comparison

Agno vs Pydantic AI

On the evidence we track, Pydantic AI 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.

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Agno58

★Pydantic AI66

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Agno	Pydantic AILeader
vioscaleAI score	58 / 100low · 24%	66 / 100medium · 62%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	freemium	freemium
Price levelpricing.price_level	high	mid
Starting pricepricing.starting_price	$150	$49
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	17	7
Security
Certificationssecurity.certifications	-	SOC 2 Type II
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	✓
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	-	✓
Soc2security.soc2	-	✓
Trust centersecurity.trust_center	-	https://pydantic.dev/security
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	-	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fpydantic%2Fpydantic-ai&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	-	0
Github starsadoption.github_stars	-	20,608
Package downloads weeklyadoption.package_downloads_weekly	-	3,171,945
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	-	100
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	-	1
Historyrelease.history	-	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	-	MIT
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	-	Python
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide · Popular in US	Available worldwide
Content
Faqcontent.faq	7 items	7 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

Agno58 / 100low · 24%

Pydantic AI66 / 100medium · 62%

Pricing

Free tier

Agno✓

Pydantic AI✓

Model

Agnofreemium

Pydantic AIfreemium

Price level

Agnohigh

Pydantic AImid

Starting price

Agno$150

Pydantic AI$49

Transparent

Agno✓

Pydantic AI✓

Integrations

Count

Agno17

Pydantic AI7

Security

Certifications

Agno–

Pydantic AISOC 2 Type II

Disclosure policy

Agno✓

Pydantic AI✓

Gdpr

Agno✓

Pydantic AI✓

Hipaa

Agno–

Pydantic AI✓

Soc2

Agno–

Pydantic AI✓

Trust center

Agno–

Pydantic AIhttps://pydantic.dev/security

Vulnerabilities

Agno–

Pydantic AICount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fpydantic%2Fpydantic-ai&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0

Adoption

Dependent repos

Agno–

Pydantic AI0

Github stars

Agno–

Pydantic AI20,608

Package downloads weekly

Agno–

Pydantic AI3,171,945

Activity

Commits last 30d

Agno–

Pydantic AI100

Release

Cadence days

Agno–

Pydantic AI1

History

Agno–

Pydantic AI20 items

License

Spdx

Agno–

Pydantic AIMIT

Language

Primary

Agno–

Pydantic AIPython

Market

Availability

AgnoAvailable worldwide · Popular in US

Pydantic AIAvailable worldwide

Content

Faq

Agno7 items

Pydantic AI7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for multi agent orchestration. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for Multi Agent Orchestration
Capability	Agno	Pydantic AI
Capabilities
Architecture paradigm	Conversational hierarchy	-
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	Commercial enterprise platform

Capabilities

Architecture paradigm

AgnoConversational hierarchy

Pydantic AI-

Native memory and state persistence layer

Agno✓

Pydantic AI-

Dynamic agent generation and spawning at runtime

Agno✓

Pydantic AI✓

Synchronous and asynchronous execution modes

Agno✓

Pydantic AI✓

Tool calling and function schema validation

Agno✓

Pydantic AI✓

Streaming output and intermediate step yielding

Agno✓

Pydantic AI✓

Fault tolerance and LLM retry mechanisms

Agno✓

Pydantic AI✓

Managed cloud runtime infrastructure offered

Agno✓

Pydantic AI✓

Native observability and trace logging

Agno✓

Pydantic AI✓

SOC2 type ii

Agno-

Pydantic AI✓

Mit or apache permissive oss license

Agno✓

Pydantic AI✓

Pricing model

Agnoopen-source-self-host

Pydantic AICommercial enterprise platform

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.

Independently observed

Pydantic AI

Leader

An observability and development platform for production AI agent systems that combines tracing, evaluation, and inference gateway capabilities for building reliable LLM applications.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Agno

from $150/moHybridFree tier

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

as of 2026-08-21verify ↗

Pydantic AI

Leader

from $49/moSubscriptionFree tier

Free tier for 10M spans/month. Paid plans from $49/month with flat-rate overage pricing at $2 per million spans.

PersonalFree
- 10M spans per month
- Hard cap to prevent bill shock
Team$49/month + $2 per million spans
- Overage billing at flat rate
- Seat limits apply
Growth$249/month + $2 per million spans, unlimited seats
- No seat limits
- Overage billing at flat rate

as of 2026-09-13verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Agno	Pydantic AI
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✗
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✓
On-premiseDeployment	✗	✓

Platforms

Web

Agno✓

Pydantic AI✓

CLI

Agno✓

Pydantic AI✗

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Agno✓

Pydantic AI✓

Self-hosted

Agno✓

Pydantic AI✓

On-premise

Agno✗

Pydantic AI✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (1)

OpenAI

Agno

36 total - 35 not shared

GitHub
Slack
Postgres
Telegram
WhatsApp
Discord
Google Drive
CopilotKit
MCP
Claude Code
Claude Desktop
Cursor
Codex
ChatGPT
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Railway
Docker
AWS
GCP
Azure
Fly
Render
Modal
Helm
+11 more

Independently observed

Pydantic AI

Leader

10 total - 9 not shared

Pydantic AI
Pydantic Evals
OpenTelemetry
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Snowflake
FastAPI
LangChain
HuggingFace
Prefect

Independently observed

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