# AgentOS vs Claude Agent SDK (slim)

> AgentOS scores 75.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Claude Agent SDK's 72.1 (BB), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Claude Agent SDK leads on agent ergonomics and transparency & trust. Both do agent frameworks. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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AgentOS scores 75.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Claude Agent SDK's 72.1 (BB), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Claude Agent SDK leads on agent ergonomics and transparency & trust. Both do agent frameworks.

- AgentOS: BB 75.3, rank #46 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentos.min.md
- Claude Agent SDK: BB 72.1, rank #96 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-agent-sdk.min.md
- AgentOS, good for TypeScript teams that want long-term memory, personas, voice and channel adapters and multi-agent teams in one package, and that will pin versions. Ahead on Reliability, 77 against 70; Payments & pricing, 60 against 40. Also Free to start without a card; Open source.
- Claude Agent SDK, good for Agents that work on files, code and shells and want Claude Code's tool set and permission model without building them. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 94 against 74; Transparency & trust, 83 against 64.

| Category | AgentOS | Claude Agent SDK |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 77 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 92 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 74 | 94 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 81 | 83 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 87 | 87 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 83 |

| Fact (where they differ) | AgentOS | Claude Agent SDK |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Framers Lab, Inc. | Anthropic |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT (Python wrapper), proprietary (TypeScript package and the bundled Claude Code binary) |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-11-06 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-11-06 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 677 stars, 5.3k npm/wk | 8.2k stars, 10.1M npm/wk, 6.1M PyPI/wk |