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smolagents alternatives

Explore 8 options alongside smolagents (Hugging Face), a product in Platforms & Infrastructure.

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Agenta

Related: shares the task Automation agents

Team workspace for creating AI coworkers and scheduled or event-triggered automations through chat.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Development of tool-using agents
  • Construction of retrieval-augmented applications

Pricing: Hobby gives 75 daily free credits on up to 10 days per month, plus a one-time 500-credit signup bonus. Starter is USD 29 per month with 2900 credits; credits cover included models and runtime, and paid plans do not charge per seat.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-11-03.

Agno

Related: shares the task Automation agents

Agent SDK and AgentOS runtime for combining agents into durable services, teams and workflows.

Open (open weights/source)

Use cases

  • Development of tool-using agents
  • Construction of retrieval-augmented applications

Pricing: Self-hosting the open-source project and buying the hosted platform are separate choices. The hosted service has its own plans and usage limits; self-hosting still requires infrastructure and any model-provider charges.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-11-03.

DSPy

Related: shares the task Automation agents

Python framework that expresses language-model tasks as modules and optimizes them against metrics.

Open (open weights/source)

Use cases

  • Development of tool-using agents
  • Construction of retrieval-augmented applications

Pricing: The open-source software can be run on your own infrastructure. Compute, storage and any external model API usage are separate costs; a managed service is not included.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-11-03.

Haystack

Related: shares the task Automation agents

Python orchestration framework for composable agents, RAG pipelines and multimodal search.

Open (open weights/source)

Use cases

  • Development of tool-using agents
  • Construction of retrieval-augmented applications

Pricing: The open-source software can be run on your own infrastructure. Compute, storage and any external model API usage are separate costs; a managed service is not included.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-11-03.

LangChain

Related: shares the task Automation agents

Open-source framework for building LLM applications and agents, with LangSmith and LangGraph for observability and orchestration.

Open (open weights/source) MIT

Use cases

  • Building RAG pipelines and chatbots
  • Orchestrating multi-step agents
  • Debugging and evaluating LLM applications

Pricing: The framework is free and open source; LangSmith offers a free tier plus paid plans for teams.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-09-10.

LlamaIndex

Related: shares the task Automation agents

Open-source data framework for connecting LLMs to private data, powering retrieval-augmented generation and document agents.

Open (open weights/source) MIT

Use cases

  • Building RAG over enterprise documents
  • Question answering on PDFs and knowledge bases
  • Document-processing agents

Pricing: The framework is free and open source; LlamaCloud and LlamaParse are usage-priced hosted services.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-09-10.

Mastra

Related: shares the task Automation agents

TypeScript framework for building agents, durable workflows and observable AI applications.

Open (open weights/source)

Use cases

  • Development of tool-using agents
  • Construction of retrieval-augmented applications

Pricing: Self-hosting the open-source project and buying the hosted platform are separate choices. The hosted service has its own plans and usage limits; self-hosting still requires infrastructure and any model-provider charges.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-11-03.

MindsHub

Related: shares the task Automation agents

AI agent workspace, evolved from MindsDB, with model choice, connected business data and team spending controls.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Development of tool-using agents
  • Construction of retrieval-augmented applications

Pricing: Hosted MindsHub advertises ongoing free access to its Air model under fair-use limits. A topped-up balance pays for other models; team budgets and spend controls do not make premium-model calls free. Running the source stack yourself has separate infrastructure and provider costs.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-11-03.

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