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AutoGen
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Stack Score
Best for
Best for engineering teams + researchers learning multi-agent patterns.
At a glance
- Pricing
- open-source
- Setup time
- 4 hours
- Learning curve
- moderate
- Last verified
- 5/26/2026
What we love
- ✓Microsoft-maintained
- ✓Strong reference patterns
- ✓Active community
Where it falls short
- −Research/reference-feel
- −Less polished than LangGraph for prod
- −API churn between versions
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20261 tier
OSS
$0
perpetual
- ✓MIT
Overview
AutoGen by Microsoft is an OSS framework for building applications where multiple LLM agents converse to solve problems. Strong reference for multi-agent design patterns.
Key features
- ●Multi-agent conversation
- ●GroupChat patterns
- ●Custom agents
- ●Function calling
- ●OSS + Microsoft-backed
Best use cases
Multi-agent research
Prototype multi-agent systems with conversation patterns.
Reference architecture
Study how to build multi-agent systems via well-documented patterns.
Integrations
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