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Claude Agent SDK vs LangGraph

A side-by-side look at pricing, capabilities, pros, cons, and our editorial scores.

 
Claude Agent SDK
Agents
LangGraph
Agents
TaglineAnthropic's official SDK for building autonomous Claude agents.Stateful, graph-based agent orchestration from LangChain.
CategoryAgentsAgents
PricingFree· Free SDK; API usage billedFreemium· Open source; LangGraph Platform paid
ModelClaude Opus / Sonnet—
Editorial score8.6 / 108.8 / 10
Use cases
Claude agentstool useproduction
stateful agentshuman-in-loopproduction
Pros
  • Official, well-tested abstractions
  • Same primitives as Claude Code
  • Strong tool-use ergonomics
  • Reliable, debuggable agent graphs
  • Built-in persistence + HITL
  • Production-grade
Cons
  • Claude-only
  • Newer than LangGraph/CrewAI
  • Steeper learning curve than CrewAI
  • Verbose to set up
Websitedocs.claude.comwww.langchain.com
Pick Claude Agent SDK if
  • ✅ Official, well-tested abstractions
  • ✅ Same primitives as Claude Code
  • ✅ Strong tool-use ergonomics
Pick LangGraph if
  • ✅ Reliable, debuggable agent graphs
  • ✅ Built-in persistence + HITL
  • ✅ Production-grade
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