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AI agent frameworks: October 2026
The final October 2026 standings for “What framework should I use to build AI agents?”. These numbers are fixed and can be cited by permalink. See the current standings.
AI share of voice · October 2026
440 sampled answers · 9 models
- 1AutoGen▲ 0.30.3%Claude Opus 4.8—
- 2CrewAI▲ 0.30.3%Claude Opus 4.8—
- 3LangChain▲ 0.30.3%Claude Opus 4.8—
- 4LangGraph▲ 0.30.3%Claude Opus 4.8· quiet
- 5LlamaIndex▲ 0.30.3%Claude Opus 4.8—
- 6Pydantic AI±00%not named this month—
Share of voice weights each compared model equally: it is the average, across the models, of how often each one named the tool in its own answers, so a model probed more than another can't skew it. Model chips list which AI models named it this month; the pulse is the sentiment of that month's developer mentions across Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Bluesky and more.
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Averaged equally across 9 AI models, AutoGen is named in 0.3% of answers about ai agent frameworks (1 of 9 name it).
The 3 prompts behind these standings
- ›What framework should I use to build AI agents? (recommendation)
- ›What are the best LangChain alternatives? (alternatives)
- ›Which framework is best for building an LLM app? (recommendation)
Each prompt is sampled several times per model per probe because answers vary run to run; 440 answers across 5 probe runs fed this month.