Claude Agent SDK

Alternatives to Claude Agent SDK

Ranked by category and the features they share with Claude Agent SDK.

1. 
   CrewAI CrewAI

   An open source Python framework for teams of AI agents with roles, plus a hosted platform.

   Free plan + paid Open source API

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2. 
   LangChain LangChain

   Open source frameworks for LLM apps and agents (LangChain, LangGraph) plus LangSmith for tracing.

   Free Open source API

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3. 
   Zapier Zapier

   Connects thousands of apps with automations and AI agents, no code needed.

   Free plan + paid API

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4. 
   n8n n8n

   Workflow automation with AI agent steps, self-hostable under a fair-code licence.

   Free plan + paid Open source API

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5. 
   Make Make (Celonis)

   Visual workflow automation with AI agents, built as flowcharts of app modules.

   Free plan + paid API

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6. 
   Manus Manus

   A general AI agent that researches, browses and builds things in its own cloud computer.

   Free plan + paid API

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7. 
   Claude Code Anthropic

   Anthropic’s coding agent: it reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and opens PRs, in the terminal, IDE, desktop and web.

   Paid API

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8. 
   OpenAI Codex OpenAI

   OpenAI’s coding agent, in ChatGPT, a terminal CLI and IDE extensions, that works on tasks in the cloud or locally.

   Paid Open source API

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9. 
   Devin Cognition

   An autonomous software engineer that takes tickets, works in its own cloud environment and opens pull requests.

   Paid API

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10. 
    Claude API Anthropic

    Claude models for developers, with tool use, prompt caching, batches and skills; also on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

    Pay per use API

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