# Google Agent Development Kit vs LlamaIndex

| Attribute | Google Agent Development Kit | LlamaIndex |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 74.2 (29% (low)) | 66.3 (75% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 85 | 32 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 185 | 51,883 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 1,685,400 |
| 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. | 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. |
| 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 | 42 | 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":"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":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":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","summary":"$0/month, 10K credits included","features":["Basic parsing","Up to 130+ file formats","File upload only","Community support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"credits":"10,000/month","concurrent_parse_jobs":"20","concurrent_sheets_jobs":"1","concurrent_extract_jobs":"5"}},{"free":false,"name":"Starter","summary":"$50/month up to 400K credits","features":["Multiple parse tiers (Cost Effective, Agentic, Agentic Plus)","Auto Mode smart tier routing","Advanced table and chart extraction","Structured JSON output","Extraction agents","Saved parse configs & model versioning","99.9% uptime","Basic email support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"credits":"400,000/month","concurrent_parse_jobs":"100"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$500/month up to 4M credits","features":["All Starter features","Classification & splitting","Sheets (spreadsheet data extraction)","Agents Builder","External data sources","Webhooks & API callbacks","Smart result caching","Slack support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":500,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"credits":"4,000,000/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing with volume discounts","features":["Volume discount on credits","5x higher rate limits","Enterprise SSO","SaaS or Hybrid cloud deployment","Dedicated account manager","Priority Slack support with SLAs"],"contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier with 10K monthly credits; pay-as-you-go starting at $50/month. Credit pricing: 1,000 credits = $1.25.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T12:45:05.106Z","startingPrice":{"amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":50,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 13 | 12 |
| release.history | `[{"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/v0.14.24","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"},{"url":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index/releases/tag/v0.14.3","date":"2025-09-24T21:02:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.14.3"}]` |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=nixpkgs&package_name=python312Packages.llama-index-llms-openai&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## 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: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T14:57:03.402Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*