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Alternatives to smolagents

8 Agent Frameworks & SDKs rivals, ranked by the same evidence-graded leaderboard — smolagents itself ranks #5 with a PA Score of 33/100. Every “beats smolagents on” below comes from a judged head-to-head round with cited evidence — see the methodology.

  1. #1Claude Agent SDK logo
    Claude Agent SDK

    Anthropic

    PA Score 38/100vs smolagents →
    coverage
    38.4/100

    Beats smolagents on: Pause an agent mid-run for human input or approval and resume with the human's decision · Stream tokens and intermediate agent events (tool calls, steps) to my UI in real time

  2. #2OpenAI Agents SDK logo
    OpenAI Agents SDK

    OpenAI

    PA Score 37/100vs smolagents →
    coverage
    40.0/100

    Beats smolagents on: Stream tokens and intermediate agent events (tool calls, steps) to my UI in real time · Pause an agent mid-run for human input or approval and resume with the human's decision

  3. #3Pydantic AI logo
    Pydantic AI

    Pydantic Services Inc.

    PA Score 36/100vs smolagents →
    coverage
    41.8/100

    Beats smolagents on: Pause an agent mid-run for human input or approval and resume with the human's decision · Unit-test agents with mocked models and tools

  4. #4Google ADK logo
    Google ADK

    Google

    PA Score 35/100vs smolagents →
    coverage
    40.1/100

    Beats smolagents on: Pause an agent mid-run for human input or approval and resume with the human's decision · Deploy an agent to a managed runtime and call it as an API endpoint

  5. #6CrewAI logo
    CrewAI

    CrewAI, Inc.

    PA Score 33/100vs smolagents →
    coverage
    32.4/100

    Beats smolagents on: Give agents long-term memory that persists across sessions and threads · Set up automations that run autonomously in the background

  6. #7Mastra logo
    Mastra

    Kepler Software, Inc.

    PA Score 32/100vs smolagents →
    coverage
    45.1/100

    Beats smolagents on: Pause an agent mid-run for human input or approval and resume with the human's decision · Checkpoint agent state so a run can resume exactly where it left off after a crash or restart

  7. #8LangGraph logo
    LangGraph

    LangChain, Inc.

    PA Score 27/100vs smolagents →
    coverage
    33.5/100

    Beats smolagents on: Pause an agent mid-run for human input or approval and resume with the human's decision · Checkpoint agent state so a run can resume exactly where it left off after a crash or restart

  8. #9AutoGen logo
    AutoGen

    Microsoft

    PA Score 26/100vs smolagents →
    coverage
    24.5/100

    Beats smolagents on: Set up automations that run autonomously in the background · Require human approval before specific sensitive tool calls execute

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