Comparison

AutoGen vs Haystack

No clear leader: Haystack (65.8) and AutoGen (61.2) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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AutoGen61
Haystack66
Score
vioscaleAI score
AutoGen61 / 100medium · 56%
Haystack66 / 100medium · 68%
Pricing
Free tier
AutoGen✓
Haystack✓
Model
AutoGenfreemium
Haystackfreemium
Price level
AutoGenlow
Haystacklow
Transparent
AutoGen✓
Haystack✗
Integrations
Count
AutoGen11
Haystack9
Reliability
Status page
AutoGen✓
Haystack–
Adoption
Dependent repos
AutoGen0
Haystack237
Github stars
AutoGen61,388
Haystack26,738
Package downloads weekly
AutoGen130,424
Haystack121,930
Activity
Commits last 30d
AutoGen–
Haystack100
Release
Cadence days
AutoGen8
Haystack2
History
AutoGen20 items
Haystack20 items
License
Spdx
AutoGenCC-BY-4.0
HaystackApache-2.0
Language
Primary
AutoGenPython
HaystackPython
Market
Availability
AutoGen–
Content
Faq
AutoGen5 items
Haystack6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for mlops & llmops tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Tool role
AutoGenAgent / RAG framework
HaystackEnd-to-end ML platform
Deployment
Self-hostable / OSS core
AutoGen✓
Haystack✓
Managed cloud available
AutoGen✗
Haystack✓
On-prem / VPC deployment
AutoGen✓
Haystack✓
Observability
LLM tracing / observability
AutoGen✓
Haystack✓
Evaluation (offline / LLM-judge / human)
AutoGen✗
Haystack✓
Dev
Prompt management + versioning
AutoGen✗
Haystack✓
Tracking
Experiment tracking / model registry
AutoGen✗
Haystack-
Serving
Model serving / inference endpoint
AutoGen✗
Haystack✓
Interop
OpenTelemetry / OpenLLMetry compatible
AutoGen✓
Haystack✓
Framework-agnostic
AutoGen✓
Haystack✓
Gateway
Multi-provider model support
AutoGen✓
Haystack✓
Data
No-train-on-customer-data guarantee
AutoGenYes
HaystackUnknown

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

AutoGen

A programming framework for creating applications with multiple AI agents that coordinate and communicate to solve tasks. It supports various language models, tool execution, memory management, and distributed execution with built-in observability.

Independently observed

Haystack

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.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

AutoGen

free_open_sourceFree tier

Free, open-source framework

as of verify ↗

Haystack

HybridFree tier

Free open-source core with paid enterprise support available

  • Open SourceFree
  • EnterpriseContact sales
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
AutoGen✓
Haystack✓
CLI
AutoGen✓
Haystack✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
AutoGen✗
Haystack✓
Self-hosted
AutoGen✓
Haystack✓
On-premise
AutoGen✗
Haystack✓

Integrations

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

In common (5)
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • AzureOpenAI
  • Azure OpenAI
  • OpenTelemetry

AutoGen

17 total - 12 not shared
  • Azure AI
  • Bedrock
  • Ollama
  • DuckDuckGo Search
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Llama
  • Model-Context Protocol
  • Docker
  • Redis
  • DuckDuckGo
  • MCP
  • Semantic Kernel
Independently observed

Haystack

28 total - 24 not shared
  • Mistral
  • Hugging Face
  • Weaviate
  • Pinecone
  • Elasticsearch
  • AstraDB
  • Apify
  • ReadMe
  • Datadog
  • SerperDev
  • SearchApi
  • Cohere
  • AWS Bedrock
  • FAISS
  • AWS SageMaker
  • OpenSearch
  • Google Colab
  • MCP servers
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Claude
  • Amazon S3
  • Meta
  • Stability AI
  • AI21 Labs
Independently observed
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AutoGen or Haystack: which one depends on you

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