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OpenAI Agents SDK
A lightweight framework for building agentic apps with agents, tools, handoffs, guardrails, sessions and tracing.
Our rating
★ 4.4 / 5 preliminary
Pricing
Free
Category
Agent framework
For
Builder
Last updated
Oct 15, 2026
💲 Open-source SDK; model usage billed by OpenAI. Source: openai.github.io (checked Oct 15, 2026).
Pros & cons
👍 Pros
- Minimal abstractions
- Built-in tracing, handoffs, voice/realtime agents
👎 Cons
- Best experience with OpenAI models
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