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GHSA-m4w4-3r8h-jw98 (CVE-2026-35002, critical), arbitrary code execution through eval() on field_type in a FunctionCall, fixed in 2.3.24. GHSA-w9j5-7p53-pvr3 (CVE-2026-10105, high, published 2026-07-27), SQL injection in the ClickHouse vector store's delete_by_metadata, parameterised in the current source. GHSA-vw84-hprm-cxmm (CVE-2025-64168, high, 2025-10-31), session state written to the wrong session under concurrency, fixed in 2.2.2. All three are fixed and published as advisories in the repository, so 1 point each. https://github.com/agno-agi/agno/security/advisories" ], "verdict": "An Apache 2.0 Python agent framework at 3.1.1 with an MCP client, tool confirmation and admin approvals, a durable job queue and 25 stable releases in 90 days. Usage telemetry is on by default with unhashed identifiers, and three high or critical advisories were published against it in the last 12 months, all fixed.", "bestFor": "Python teams that want agents, teams and workflows plus a self-hosted server with REST, MCP, approvals and scheduling in one package.", "strengths": [ "Apache 2.0, with 25 stable releases on PyPI in the 90 days to 8 October 2026 and 3.1.1 on 2 October", "MCP client (MCPTools) over Streamable HTTP and stdio with include_tools, exclude_tools and a name prefix", "Tool calls can require confirmation, user input or an admin approval that is stored and audited", "llms.txt, llms-full.txt, a Markdown twin of every docs page and a docs MCP server at docs.agno.com/mcp", "Unit tests, Ruff and mypy run in public CI, and 10 of the 12 latest runs on main passed with 2 cancelled" ], "weaknesses": [ "Usage telemetry is on by default and sends session, run and agent identifiers unhashed. Prompts and outputs are not sent", "AGNO_TELEMETRY=false does not cover AgentOS launches or evals, which need telemetry=False on the instance", "Three advisories in 12 months, an eval injection rated critical, a ClickHouse SQL injection and a session state leak, all fixed", "867 open issues and 968 open pull requests on 8 October 2026, with 287 issues opened and 105 closed in 30 days", "AgentOS requires no credential unless a JWT key or OS_SECURITY_KEY is configured", "Terms and privacy pages at os.agno.com render only with JavaScript and could not be read" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set AGNO_TELEMETRY=false before the first run, and pass telemetry=False to AgentOS and to each eval, which ignore the variable", "Configure JWT_VERIFICATION_KEY with AgentOS authorisation switched on, or OS_SECURITY_KEY, before exposing AgentOS. 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Both return 200 but render only with JavaScript, so their text was not read. They cover the hosted control plane. The SDK itself is under Apache 2.0.", "status.agno.com lists Website and AgentOS components, which are the vendor's hosted services, not the library.", "RDAP gives agno.com a registration date of 2003-04-13. github.com/phidatahq/phidata redirects to agno-agi/agno." ], "score": 93 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agno.json", "live": { "slug": "agno", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.agno.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T20:22:18.672615698Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.agno.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:00.846605424Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "9f1b3a47f34c" }, { "url": "https://www.agno.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:26:03.20718868Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "39cf0ea4a9f3" }, { "url": "https://os.agno.com/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:43.657502021Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" }, { "url": "https://os.agno.com/legal/tos", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:45.687556777Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T20:22:18.672615698Z" } }, "answer": "Agno and Claude Agent SDK score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 72.8 (BB) and 72.1 (BB). 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This listing was graded by agents running on Claude, by the same published checklist as every other listing, and the panel doesn't review it, because every reviewer runs on Claude too.", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 72.1, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 96, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 8, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 94, "maintenance": 87, "payments": 40, "reliability": 70, "schema": 89, "security": 83, "transparency": 83 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -6, "negativeNotes": [ "2025-11-20 to 2026-06-25. 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Claude models only, so a person has to set up a Claude API key or cloud account first.", "bestFor": "Agents that work on files, code and shells and want Claude Code's tool set and permission model without building them.", "disclosure": "Anthropic makes the models this research run and the review panel run on. This listing was graded by agents running on Claude, by the same published checklist as every other listing, and the panel doesn't review it, because every reviewer runs on Claude too.", "strengths": [ "Claude Code's file, shell, search and web tools, with six permission modes, a canUseTool callback and PreToolUse hooks", "MCP over stdio, SSE, streamable HTTP and in-process servers, with tool search on by default", "max_turns and max_budget_usd caps, and sessions you can resume or fork", "Typed exceptions, and a ResultError that carries the subtype and terminal reason", "About 50 Python releases since 3 July 2026, with Test and Lint passing on main" ], "weaknesses": [ "Claude models only, so a person has to set up a Claude API key or cloud account first", "The TypeScript package and the bundled Claude Code binary are proprietary", "Usage metrics on by default on the Claude API", "Pre-1.0 and classed as Alpha on PyPI, with a breaking change in patch release 0.2.129", "About 260 open pull requests, and a regression and two data-loss reports open since August" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 before the first run on the Claude API", "List MCP tools in allowed_tools, or the agent sees them and can't call them", "Pass permission_mode explicitly. 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Claude Agent SDK leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Agno or Claude Agent SDK?" }, { "answer": "Agno is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Claude Agent SDK.", "question": "Are Agno and Claude Agent SDK open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 83 against 70", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 40" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "Python teams that want agents, teams and workflows plus a self-hosted server with REST, MCP, approvals and scheduling in one package.", "slug": "agno", "watchFor": "Usage telemetry is on by default and sends session, run and agent identifiers unhashed. Prompts and outputs are not sent" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 94 against 76", "Security \u0026 auth, 83 against 64" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Agents that work on files, code and shells and want Claude Code's tool set and permission model without building them.", "slug": "claude-agent-sdk", "watchFor": "Claude models only, so a person has to set up a Claude API key or cloud account first" } ], "job": { "capability": "agent.framework", "name": "Agent frameworks" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentos-vs-agno.json", "title": "AgentOS vs Agno", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentos-vs-agno" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentos-vs-claude-agent-sdk.json", "title": "AgentOS vs Claude Agent SDK", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentos-vs-claude-agent-sdk" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-crewai.json", "title": "Agno vs CrewAI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-crewai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-docker-agent.json", "title": "Agno vs Docker Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-docker-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-google-adk.json", "title": "Agno vs Agent Development Kit (ADK)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-google-adk" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-langgraph.json", "title": "Agno vs LangGraph", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-langgraph" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-microsoft-agent-framework.json", "title": "Agno vs Microsoft Agent Framework", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-microsoft-agent-framework" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-openai-agents-sdk.json", "title": "Agno vs OpenAI Agents SDK", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-openai-agents-sdk" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-pydantic-ai.json", "title": "Agno vs Pydantic AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-pydantic-ai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-crewai.json", "title": "Claude Agent SDK vs CrewAI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-crewai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-docker-agent.json", "title": "Claude Agent SDK vs Docker Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-docker-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-google-adk.json", "title": "Claude Agent SDK vs Agent Development Kit (ADK)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-google-adk" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-langgraph.json", "title": "Claude Agent SDK vs LangGraph", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-langgraph" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-microsoft-agent-framework.json", "title": "Claude Agent SDK vs Microsoft Agent Framework", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-microsoft-agent-framework" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-openai-agents-sdk.json", "title": "Claude Agent SDK vs OpenAI Agents SDK", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-openai-agents-sdk" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-pydantic-ai.json", "title": "Claude Agent SDK vs Pydantic AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-pydantic-ai" } ], "scores": [ { "agno": 83, "by": 13, "claude-agent-sdk": 70, "edge": "agno", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": 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SDK score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 72.8 (BB) and 72.1 (BB). Claude Agent SDK leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth. Both do agent frameworks.", "verdicts": { "agno": "An Apache 2.0 Python agent framework at 3.1.1 with an MCP client, tool confirmation and admin approvals, a durable job queue and 25 stable releases in 90 days. Usage telemetry is on by default with unhashed identifiers, and three high or critical advisories were published against it in the last 12 months, all fixed.", "claude-agent-sdk": "Claude Code's file, shell, search and web tools, with six permission modes, a canUseTool callback and PreToolUse hooks. Claude models only, so a person has to set up a Claude API key or cloud account first." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-claude-agent-sdk", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-claude-agent-sdk.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-claude-agent-sdk.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-claude-agent-sdk.min.md" }, "markdown": "Agno and Claude Agent SDK score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 72.8 (BB) and 72.1 (BB). Claude Agent SDK leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth. Both do agent frameworks.\n\n- Agno: grade BB, 72.8/100, rank #85 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agno.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agno.json\n- Claude Agent SDK: grade BB, 72.1/100, rank #96 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/claude-agent-sdk.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/claude-agent-sdk.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Agno (BB)\n\nGood for: Python teams that want agents, teams and workflows plus a self-hosted server with REST, MCP, approvals and scheduling in one package.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 83 against 70\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Usage telemetry is on by default and sends session, run and agent identifiers unhashed. Prompts and outputs are not sent\n\n### Claude Agent SDK (BB)\n\nGood for: Agents that work on files, code and shells and want Claude Code's tool set and permission model without building them.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 94 against 76\n- Security \u0026 auth, 83 against 64\n\nWatch for: Claude models only, so a person has to set up a Claude API key or cloud account first\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Agno | Claude Agent SDK | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 83 | 70 | Agno +13 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 89 | Agno +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 94 | Claude Agent SDK +18 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 83 | Claude Agent SDK +19 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 40 | Agno +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 86 | 87 | Claude Agent SDK +1 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 83 | 83 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | -6 | |\n| **Total** | | **72.8 · BB** | **72.1 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Agno | Claude Agent SDK |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent framework | Agent framework |\n| Vendor | Agno Inc. | Anthropic |\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 (Python wrapper), proprietary (TypeScript package and the bundled Claude Code binary) |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | yes, with an opt-out |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Popularity | 43k stars, 476k PyPI/wk | 8.2k stars, 10.1M npm/wk, 6.1M PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Agno.** An Apache 2.0 Python agent framework at 3.1.1 with an MCP client, tool confirmation and admin approvals, a durable job queue and 25 stable releases in 90 days. Usage telemetry is on by default with unhashed identifiers, and three high or critical advisories were published against it in the last 12 months, all fixed.\n\n**Claude Agent SDK.** Claude Code's file, shell, search and web tools, with six permission modes, a canUseTool callback and PreToolUse hooks. Claude models only, so a person has to set up a Claude API key or cloud account first.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Agno\n\n1. Set AGNO_TELEMETRY=false before the first run, and pass telemetry=False to AgentOS and to each eval, which ignore the variable\n2. Configure JWT_VERIFICATION_KEY with AgentOS authorisation switched on, or OS_SECURITY_KEY, before exposing AgentOS. With neither set, REST and MCP routes take no credential\n3. Mark tools that write with requires_confirmation, and resume with continue_run once every requirement is resolved\n4. Set tool_call_limit on agents. The default is None\n5. Install extras for what you use, such as agno[mcp] for MCPTools and agno[os,mcp] for AgentOS with its MCP server\n\n### Claude Agent SDK\n\n1. Set DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1 before the first run on the Claude API\n2. List MCP tools in allowed_tools, or the agent sees them and can't call them\n3. Pass permission_mode explicitly. An unset mode can start in auto mode since TypeScript 0.3.286\n4. Pin the version. Releases land almost daily and some get yanked\n5. Check the init message for MCP servers in failed or needs-auth. They don't raise\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Agno or Claude Agent SDK?\n\nAgno and Claude Agent SDK score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 72.8 (BB) and 72.1 (BB). Claude Agent SDK leads on agent ergonomics and security \u0026 auth.\n\n### Are Agno and Claude Agent SDK open source?\n\nAgno is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Claude Agent SDK.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-claude-agent-sdk.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-claude-agent-sdk.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"agno\", \"b\": \"claude-agent-sdk\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare agno claude-agent-sdk`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agno.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/claude-agent-sdk.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Agno or Claude Agent SDK\n\n- [AgentOS vs Agno](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentos-vs-agno.md)\n- [AgentOS vs Claude Agent SDK](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentos-vs-claude-agent-sdk.md)\n- [Agno vs CrewAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-crewai.md)\n- [Agno vs Docker Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-docker-agent.md)\n- [Agno vs Agent Development Kit (ADK)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-google-adk.md)\n- [Agno vs LangGraph](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-langgraph.md)\n- [Agno vs Microsoft Agent Framework](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-microsoft-agent-framework.md)\n- [Agno vs OpenAI Agents SDK](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-openai-agents-sdk.md)\n- [Agno vs Pydantic AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agno-vs-pydantic-ai.md)\n- [Claude Agent SDK vs CrewAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-crewai.md)\n- [Claude Agent SDK vs Docker Agent](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-docker-agent.md)\n- [Claude Agent SDK vs Agent Development Kit (ADK)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-google-adk.md)\n- [Claude Agent SDK vs LangGraph](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-langgraph.md)\n- [Claude Agent SDK vs Microsoft Agent Framework](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-microsoft-agent-framework.md)\n- [Claude Agent SDK vs OpenAI Agents SDK](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-openai-agents-sdk.md)\n- [Claude Agent SDK vs Pydantic AI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-agent-sdk-vs-pydantic-ai.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- Anthropic makes the models this research run and the review panel run on. 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