# Agno vs LlamaIndex Framework (slim)

> Agno and LlamaIndex Framework score within a point of each other for agent frameworks, 70.9 and 70 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Agno and LlamaIndex Framework score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 70.9 (BB) and 70 (BB). LlamaIndex Framework leads on security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do agent frameworks.

- Agno: BB 70.9, rank #179 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agno.min.md
- LlamaIndex Framework: BB 70, rank #217 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/llamaindex.min.md
- Agno, good for Python teams that want agents, teams and workflows plus a self-hosted server with REST, MCP, approvals and scheduling in one package. Ahead on Reliability, 83 against 70; Schema & documentation, 90 against 85; Maintenance & community, 86 against 69; Transparency & trust, 84 against 67.
- LlamaIndex Framework, good for Python teams building retrieval-heavy agents over their own data, with many connectors. Ahead on Security & auth, 74 against 64; Payments & pricing, 60 against 50. Also No key needed to call it.

| Category | Agno | LlamaIndex Framework |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 83 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 90 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 76 | 73 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 64 | 74 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 86 | 69 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 84 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Agno | LlamaIndex Framework |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Agno Inc. | LlamaIndex |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-29 | 2026-09-21 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-08-24 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not read yet |
| Popularity | 43k stars, 476k PyPI/wk | 53k stars, 1.3M PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3.3/5 (4) | none |

Why the edge:
- Maintenance & community, Agno +17: Agno 86 (3.1.12, tagged 29 October 2026 (30). 27 stable releases and 5 pre-releases tagged in the 90 days to 1 November, from 2.8.7 on 5 August to 3.1.12 (20). Bug reports were usually answered within days on 8 October, when 867 issues and 968 pull requests were open and issues were opened nearly three times as fast as they were closed, per the 8 October check, not re-read on 1 November (14). The Python package is current (15). CI runs lint, types and tests with pinned development tools. No Dependabot configuration file is in the repository (7).); LlamaIndex Framework 69 (llama-index-core 0.14.25 on 21 September 2026, 46 days before this check (20). Two core changelog entries in the 90 days (19 August and 21 September), with integration packages and Workflows (2.24.1 to 2.26.1) publishing in between, so partial (12). 379 open issues and 1,291 open issues and pull requests on 6 November, with 241 issues opened in the 90 days to 3 November. Of the 50 newest, 28 had a comment and 3 were closed; a stale bot and an issue classifier run on the repository (12). Core, Workflows and integrations are current (15). CI and CodeQL passing on main and a stale-package policy that moves unmaintained integrations out of main (10). 20+12+12+15+10 = 69.)
- Transparency & trust, Agno +17: Agno 84 (Apache 2.0 (30). The telemetry page lists the fields sent and says identifiers are not hashed, and the pricing page says the control plane holds no copy of customer data. The terms and privacy pages render only with JavaScript and were not read, and no retention period for telemetry was found (15). Migration guides for 2.0 and 3.0 and migration notices on what was removed, with no written deprecation policy found (10). Telemetry is disclosed in the README and docs with an opt-out, though the environment variable does not cover AgentOS or evals (18).); LlamaIndex Framework 67 (MIT (30). The library stores nothing itself; OpenAI is the default provider unless changed, which the docs show (20). A stale-package policy and removals noted in the changelog, such as deprecated IPEX integrations removed in 0.14.25, without dated notice (10). No telemetry, though no page states it (12). 30+20+10+12 = 72.)
- Reliability, Agno +13: Agno 83 (Official PyPI package with Python 3.9 or later stated (20). Public CI runs Ruff, mypy and the unit tests in five groups, and of the 12 latest runs on main on 8 October, 10 passed and 2 were cancelled, per the 8 October check, not re-read on 1 November (25). 867 open issues, 171 of them labelled bug and 227 older than six months, with 287 opened and 105 closed in the 30 days to 8 October, per the 8 October check, not re-read on 1 November (12). Majors 2.0 and 3.0 came with migration guides and release notes list breaking changes, but 3.1.0, a minor, shipped a breaking filesystem table re-key (11). Version 3.1.12 with the Production/Stable classifier (15). Local-software reading.); LlamaIndex Framework 70 (Local-package reading. Official PyPI packages with Python 3.10 to below 4.0 (20). Public unit-test, type-check, lint, coverage and CodeQL workflows, with the type-check, lint and CodeQL runs on main passing on 3 November (25). 379 open issues and 1,291 open issues and pull requests on 6 November, with 241 issues opened in the 90 days to 3 November. Of the 50 newest, 28 had a comment and 3 were closed; a stale bot and an issue classifier run on the repository (12). A dated, generated changelog per package, but core is 0.x and minors such as 0.13 and 0.14 carried breaking changes (8). Core isn't 1.0; Workflows is at 2.x, so partial (5). 20+25+12+8+5 = 70.)
- Security & auth, LlamaIndex Framework +10: Agno 64 (Telemetry is on by default. It carries no prompts, responses or keys, but session, run and agent identifiers are sent unhashed, and AGNO_TELEMETRY does not cover AgentOS or evals (18). Tools can require confirmation or admin approval, and AgentOS has JWT scopes and service accounts, but takes no credential unless configured, and issue 10589 (25 September 2026, open) reports that /continue trusts approval state from the client (14). The prompt-injection guardrail matches literal phrases in the run input only, which the docs state (9). OpenTelemetry tracing, run history and an audit log in the 3.1 authorisation package (13). A valid security.txt (expires 10 August 2027) pointing to GitHub advisories, and advisories published in the repository. No SECURITY.md, no bounty found, and the trust centre was not read (10). Framework reading.); LlamaIndex Framework 74 (Framework reading (telemetry defaults, approvals, guardrails, sandboxing). No telemetry found in llama-index-core (25). Human-in-the-loop events in Workflows and agents can wait for a person, but there's no per-tool approval primitive and CodeActAgent's executor is the developer's to supply (12). The threat model puts input validation on the application, with no prompt-injection guidance in the agent pages (5). Instrumentation events and callback handlers for tracing (14). A huntr bug bounty, GitHub private reporting and public advisories with fixed versions (18). 25+12+5+14+18 = 74.)
- Payments & pricing, LlamaIndex Framework +10: Agno 50 (No payment protocol (0). Self-hosted rule, with the paid option scored. The control plane has public plan prices, Free at $0 and Pro at $150 a month, with Enterprise by quote (10). The package installs with no card (20) and runs with no Agno account (20).); LlamaIndex Framework 60 (Self-hosted rule. Free MIT packages with nothing to buy for the framework itself (20 + 20 + 20). No payment protocol (0). LlamaCloud is graded on its own listing. 0+20+20+20 = 60.)
- Schema & documentation, Agno +5: Agno 90 (A class reference under docs.agno.com/reference and a REST reference for AgentOS, which also serves /openapi.json (25). llms.txt with 3,985 lines, llms-full.txt, a Markdown twin of each page and a docs MCP server (10). Pages state limits, for example that guardrails check only the supplied input and when to keep the MCP protocol mode on legacy (15). Pydantic-typed classes and tool signatures, with a py.typed marker (13). Runnable examples throughout and a page on tool exceptions and retries, with no single reference page for the exception classes found (12). Dated changelog and release notes per version (15). Framework reading.); LlamaIndex Framework 85 (Framework reading. A typed Python API with a generated reference (22). llms.txt indexing the framework docs, plus a docs search API and an MCP server for the docs (10). The agents guide says what each agent class is for, and the MCP page lists the three ways to use MCP (15). Tools are typed from function signatures and Pydantic models (13). Many examples and notebooks, few documented error types (10). Dated changelog (15). 22+10+15+13+10+15 = 85.)