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OpenAI Swarm
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OpenAI Swarm
Lightweight multi-agent orchestration from OpenAI.
Best for
Best for engineers learning multi-agent patterns directly from OpenAI.
At a glance
- Pricing
- open-source
- Setup time
- 2 hours
- Learning curve
- easy
- Last verified
- 5/26/2026
What we love
- ✓Official OpenAI reference
- ✓Minimal + readable code
- ✓Strong starting point
Where it falls short
- −Research/reference only — not for prod
- −OpenAI-only
- −Limited features vs LangGraph
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20261 tier
OSS
$0
perpetual
- ✓MIT
Overview
OpenAI Swarm is a lightweight OSS reference framework for multi-agent orchestration — handoffs, function calling, simple agent patterns.
Key features
- ●Multi-agent handoffs
- ●Function calling-first
- ●Pattern reference
- ●OpenAI-only
- ●MIT license
Best use cases
Multi-agent reference
Use Swarm as a clean reference to learn multi-agent patterns.
Prototype handoffs
Build quick prototypes of multi-agent handoff flows.
Integrations
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