A software component that plans, calls tools, observes outcomes, and continues acting toward a goal, using an LLM as its reasoning engine.
agents
AI Agent
Related terms
Tools that implement AI Agent
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Claude Agent SDK
Agents · Claude Opus / Sonnet
8.6
Anthropic's official SDK for building autonomous Claude agents.
Free· Free SDK; API usage billed at Claude ratesClaude agentstool use
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CrewAI
FeaturedAgents · BYO (Claude / GPT / open)
8.4
Python framework for multi-agent orchestration.
Freemium· Basic: Free · Enterprise: Custommulti-agentorchestration
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LangGraph
FeaturedAgents · BYO (Claude / GPT / open)
8.8
Stateful, graph-based agent orchestration from LangChain.
Freemium· Developer: $0 / seat · Plus: $39 / seat · Enterprise: Custom pricingstateful agentshuman-in-loop
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OpenHands
Agents · Multi-model (Claude, Gemini, GPT/Codex)
8.0
Open-source autonomous coding agent that plans, edits, and ships changes across real codebases.
Freemium· Open Source: Free · Individual: Free · Enterprise: Custom pricingautonomous-codingpr-review
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AutoGen
Agents · Model-agnostic: OpenAI (GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, o-series), Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Ollama, and any OpenAI-compatible local model (vLLM, llama.cpp)
Microsoft's open-source framework for multi-agent AI applications
Free· Free and open-source (MIT/CC-BY-4.0). You pay only for the underlying model providers (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, local models, etc.) you plug into it.Coder and critic pair programming loopsMulti-agent research and report writing
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LangChain
RAG · BYO (any major LLM)
8.3
The broad LLM application framework — chains, agents, retrievers.
Freemium· Free open-source; LangSmith paidgeneral LLM appsRAG