OpenAI Agents SDK
Lightweight Python SDK for multi-agent apps with handoffs, guardrails and tracing
Our editorial assessment, based on the public sources listed below. Last reviewed .
- Task rank
- #5
- Tier
- A
- Score
- 84.7
Strengths
- Small set of primitives: agents, handoffs, guardrails, sessions
- Built-in tracing plus MCP tool calling and human-in-the-loop
- Sandbox and realtime voice agents in the same SDK
Considerations
- Defaults to OpenAI's Responses API; other models need extra setup
- Code-first; no visual builder for non-developers
Price
Free open-source SDK; model API usage billed separately
Shown for reference — price is not part of the score.
Score breakdown
- Performance
- 85.0
- 55% of score
- Reputation
- 82.0
- 35% of score
- Recency
- 92.0
- 10% of score
The overall score combines these sub-scores using the weights shown. How we score →
Verification status
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