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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openai-agents-sdk.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openai-agents-sdk.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### AgentOS (BB)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Version 0.12.12, with 27 releases on 7 and 8 October 2026 and breaking minors 0.11.0 and 0.12.0 on the same day\n\n### OpenAI Agents SDK (AA)\n\nGood for: Teams that want hand-offs, guardrails and approvals with little code, and are happy with OpenAI's tracing or will turn it off.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 85 against 77\n- Agent ergonomics, 97 against 74\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 100 against 87\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 89 against 64\n\nWatch for: Tracing on by default, with model and tool content, sent to OpenAI\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | AgentOS | OpenAI Agents SDK | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 77 | 85 | OpenAI Agents SDK +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 92 | 95 | OpenAI Agents SDK +3 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 97 | OpenAI Agents SDK +23 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 81 | 80 | AgentOS +1 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 87 | 100 | OpenAI Agents SDK +13 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 89 | OpenAI Agents SDK +25 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **75.3 · BB** | **86.2 · AA** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | AgentOS | OpenAI Agents SDK |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent framework | Agent framework |\n| Vendor | Framers Lab, Inc. | OpenAI |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-02 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-11-06 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-11-06 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 677 stars, 5.3k npm/wk | 30k stars, 1.3M npm/wk, 3M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.9/5 (8) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**AgentOS.** A TypeScript agent framework with typed tools, six multi-agent strategies, checkpointed graphs, approval gates and no telemetry of its own. It is at 0.12.12 after 98 releases in 90 days, two of them breaking on 7 October 2026. No MCP client was found in the package, and code tools an agent writes run in an in-process node:vm context.\n\n**OpenAI Agents SDK.** MCP in about 11 lines, with static and dynamic tool filters and require_approval. Tracing on by default, with model and tool content, sent to OpenAI.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### AgentOS\n\n1. Pin an exact version of @framers/agentos. Feature commits ship as patch releases while it is 0.x, and breaking changes ship as minors\n2. Leave emergentConfig.allowSandboxTools off unless forged code runs through an executor that isolates. The default executor shares the host process\n3. Pass your own ICheckpointStore to compile() for runs that must survive a restart. The default store is in memory\n4. Set hitl.approvals.beforeTool for tools that write, and choose a handler. No approval gate is on by default\n5. Use Node 22 or newer, and set a provider key such as OPENAI_API_KEY or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY. The provider is detected from the environment\n\n### OpenAI Agents SDK\n\n1. Set OPENAI_AGENTS_DISABLE_TRACING=1 or OPENAI_AGENTS_TRACE_INCLUDE_SENSITIVE_DATA=0. Through 0.23.1, RunConfig(tracing_disabled=True) doesn't stop spans inside your own trace() block\n2. Pin to a minor version. Each 0.Y can break\n3. Set require_approval on MCP servers that write\n4. Name the model explicitly. The default changed in 0.20.0\n5. Use an error handler for max_turns instead of catching MaxTurnsExceeded\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, AgentOS or OpenAI Agents SDK?\n\nOpenAI Agents SDK scores 86.2 (AA) on agent readiness against AgentOS's 75.3 (BB), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Are AgentOS and OpenAI Agents SDK open source?\n\nYes. AgentOS is open source (Apache-2.0). 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