# Google Agent Development Kit vs LlamaIndex

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** LlamaIndex

| Attribute | Google Agent Development Kit | LlamaIndex |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 58.2 (44% (low)) | 65.1 (69% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 28 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 265 | 52,481 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 1,685,400 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A multi-language agent development framework that enables developers to create production-grade AI agents with built-in tools for orchestration, memory management, code execution, and deployment to cloud or self-hosted infrastructure. It is indexed under Multi Agent Orchestration.","source":"https://google.github.io/adk-docs/","question":"What is Google Agent Development Kit?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Google Agent Development Kit is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://google.github.io/adk-docs/","question":"Is Google Agent Development Kit free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Google Agent Development Kit supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://google.github.io/adk-docs/","question":"What platforms does Google Agent Development Kit support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Google Agent Development Kit can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://google.github.io/adk-docs/","question":"Can Google Agent Development Kit be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 43 integrations for Google Agent Development Kit, including Google Search, Google Maps, Vertex AI Search, Anthropic, Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and TikTok, plus 35 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://google.github.io/adk-docs/","question":"What does Google Agent Development Kit integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Google Agent Development Kit 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/google/adk-kotlin","question":"Is Google Agent Development Kit open source?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"Google Agent Development Kit is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://google.github.io/adk-docs/","question":"Where is Google Agent Development Kit available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"LlamaParse is a cloud-based document parsing platform that uses vision language models and intelligent agents to automatically process complex documents—including PDFs, images, and office files—with support for layout detection, multi-modal content, and 80+ languages. It transforms document ingestion workflows with agentic extraction and indexing capabilities. It is indexed under MLOps & LLMOps Tools.","source":"https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing","question":"What is LlamaIndex?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"LlamaIndex is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the MIT licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $50 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.llamaindex.ai/pricing","question":"Is LlamaIndex free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to LlamaIndex. 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://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing","question":"What platforms does LlamaIndex support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Not fully, on what we have confirmed. LlamaIndex is offered as cloud / SaaS and hybrid, and a hybrid deployment usually means some components can run on your own infrastructure while the rest stays vendor-hosted. We have not confirmed a completely self-hosted option, so check with the vendor if that is a requirement.","source":"https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing","question":"Can LlamaIndex be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 3 integrations for LlamaIndex, including AWS, Microsoft Azure and GitHub. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing","question":"What does LlamaIndex integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for LlamaIndex. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as LlamaIndex not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.llamaindex.ai","question":"What security certifications does LlamaIndex have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"Yes. LlamaIndex is published under the MIT 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/run-llama/llama_index","question":"Is LlamaIndex open source?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"LlamaIndex is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the EU. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing","question":"Where is LlamaIndex available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true}` |
| description.long | A multi-language agent development framework that enables developers to create production-grade AI agents with built-in tools for orchestration, memory management, code execution, and deployment to cloud or self-hosted infrastructure. | A platform that uses AI models to parse and extract data from documents across 130+ file formats, supporting complex layouts, multiple languages, and multi-step extraction agents. Optimized for accuracy, cost, and latency at enterprise scale. |
| features.capabilities | `{"soc2_type_ii":false,"pricing_model":"free_open_source","architecture_paradigm":"graph_based_cycles","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":"framework","evaluation":false,"soc2_type_ii":true,"managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"pricing_model":"commercial_enterprise_platform","self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"otel_compatible":true,"no_train_on_data":"unknown","llm_observability":false,"prompt_management":false,"framework_agnostic":true,"experiment_tracking":false,"mit_or_apache_permissive_oss_license":false,"native_observability_and_trace_logging":true,"fault_tolerance_and_llm_retry_mechanisms":true,"native_memory_and_state_persistence_layer":false,"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}` |
| integrations.count | 22 | 3 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Google Search"},{"name":"Google Maps"},{"name":"Vertex AI Search"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Google Ads"},{"name":"Meta"},{"name":"LinkedIn"},{"name":"TikTok"},{"name":"Aerospike"},{"name":"Firebase"},{"name":"Firestore"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Google Workspace"},{"name":"Google Calendar"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Figma"},{"name":"Linear"},{"name":"Notion"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Milvus"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Grafana Cloud"},{"name":"Langfuse"},{"name":"LangSmith"},{"name":"Freeplay"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"Postman"},{"name":"Zapier"},{"name":"Stripe"},{"name":"Resend"},{"name":"Postmark"},{"name":"Pagerduty"},{"name":"Respan"},{"name":"Cloud Trace"},{"name":"Replit"},{"name":"Vercel"},{"name":"Vite"},{"name":"Qwik"},{"name":"BuilderIO"},{"name":"Windsurf"},{"name":"Tonal"},{"name":"Unkey"},{"name":"Meta Ads","category":"marketing"},{"name":"LinkedIn Ads","category":"marketing"},{"name":"TikTok Ads","category":"marketing"},{"name":"Google Cloud Agent Identity","category":"identity"},{"name":"Google Cloud Agent Registry","category":"registry"},{"name":"Twilio","category":"communications"},{"name":"Modal","category":"compute"},{"name":"HuggingFace","category":"ai"},{"name":"Datadog","category":"monitoring"}]` | `[{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure"},{"name":"GitHub"}]` |
| language.primary | Kotlin | Python |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Free and open-source under Apache 2.0 license","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://google.github.io/adk-docs/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T11:02:16.517Z"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","features":["Basic support","100 users","130+ file formats","80+ languages supported"],"minSeats":100,"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"10,000 credits per month","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"concurrent_parse_jobs":"20","external_data_sources":"1"}},{"free":false,"name":"Starter","features":["Basic support","Multiple parse tiers","Auto Mode with up to 80% savings","Saved parse configs","Advanced table/chart extraction","Structured JSON output"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Up to 400K credits per month","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"concurrent_parse_jobs":"100"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","features":["Priority Slack support","All parsing and extraction capabilities","Extraction agents","Webhooks & API callbacks","Smart result caching"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":500,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"one_time","amount":1000,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"400K credits per month plus 800K one-time bonus","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Pay-as-you-go","features":["Priority Slack support","Flexible credit usage up to $5,000/month"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"credit"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.00125,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Variable usage-based pricing","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","features":["Volume discounts on credits","5x higher rate limits","Enterprise SSO","SaaS or Hybrid cloud deployment","Dedicated account manager","Custom SLAs"],"description":"Custom pricing with dedicated support","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free (10K credits/month), Starter $50/month (400K credits), Pro $500/month (400K + 800K bonus), Pay-as-you-go up to $5,000/month, Enterprise custom","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T22:31:28.854Z","startingPrice":{"amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":50,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 12 | 17 |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/google/adk-kotlin/releases/tag/v1.3.0","date":"2026-10-02T12:56:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/google/adk-kotlin/releases/tag/v1.2.0","date":"2026-09-28T10:00:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/google/adk-kotlin/releases/tag/v1.1.0","date":"2026-09-15T08:48:26Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/google/adk-kotlin/releases/tag/v1.0.1","date":"2026-09-10T09:25:55Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/google/adk-kotlin/releases/tag/v1.0.0","date":"2026-09-07T11:08:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/google/adk-kotlin/releases/tag/v0.9.0","date":"2026-08-31T07:34:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/google/adk-kotlin/releases/tag/v0.8.0","date":"2026-08-17T09:59:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/google/adk-kotlin/releases/tag/v0.7.0","date":"2026-08-03T12:54:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/google/adk-kotlin/releases/tag/v0.6.0","date":"2026-07-20T14:05:14Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/google/adk-kotlin/releases/tag/v0.5.0","date":"2026-07-06T09:42:44Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/google/adk-kotlin/releases/tag/v0.4.0","date":"2026-06-23T08:10:55Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.4.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/google/adk-kotlin/releases/tag/v0.3.0","date":"2026-06-12T13:52:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/google/adk-kotlin/releases/tag/v0.2.0","date":"2026-05-26T11:24:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/google/adk-kotlin/releases/tag/v0.1.0","date":"2026-05-19T16:16:45Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/google/adk-kotlin/releases/tag/v0.1.0-rc.1","date":"2026-05-19T09:50:57Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.1.0-rc.1"}]` | `[{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.25","date":"2026-09-21T16:22:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.25"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.24","date":"2026-08-19T18:48:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.24"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.23","date":"2026-06-24T19:36:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.23"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.22","date":"2026-05-14T20:22:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.22"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.21","date":"2026-04-21T00:18:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.21"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.20","date":"2026-04-03T19:55:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.20"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.19","date":"2026-03-25T20:59:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.19"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.18","date":"2026-03-16T19:42:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.18"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.16","date":"2026-03-10T19:20:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.15","date":"2026-02-18T19:06:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.14","date":"2026-02-10T23:08:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.13","date":"2026-01-21T20:44:52Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.12","date":"2025-12-30T01:07:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.10","date":"2025-12-04T19:46:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.9","date":"2025-12-02T21:31:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.8","date":"2025-11-10T22:18:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.7","date":"2025-10-30T23:58:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.6","date":"2025-10-26T03:01:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.5","date":"2025-10-15T19:10:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.4","date":"2025-10-03T17:52:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.4"}]` |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | - | https://www.llamaindex.ai/legal/privacy-notice |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=com.google.adk%3Agoogle-adk-kotlin-core-jvm&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":10,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=llama-index-core&per_page=100","last_12m":1,"max_severity":"CRITICAL"}` |

## Capabilities (Multi Agent Orchestration)

| Capability | Google Agent Development Kit | LlamaIndex |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Architecture paradigm | 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 | Free open source | Commercial enterprise platform |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:58:48.109Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*