# Agent Development Kit (ADK) vs TradingAgents

> Agent Development Kit scores 73.6 (BB) to TradingAgents's 64.7 (B) for agent frameworks. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-25

Agent Development Kit (ADK) scores 73.6 (BB) on agent readiness against TradingAgents's 64.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do agent frameworks.

- Agent Development Kit (ADK): grade BB, 73.6/100, rank #87 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/google-adk.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/google-adk.json
- TradingAgents: grade B, 64.7/100, rank #388 of 1210. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/tradingagents.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/tradingagents.json
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## Which one, for what

### Agent Development Kit (ADK) (BB)

Good for: Teams on Google Cloud or working outside Python, and for anyone who wants approval, guardrail callbacks and evaluation in one framework.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 80 against 67
- Schema & documentation, 87 against 61
- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 61
- Security & auth, 92 against 62
- Maintenance & community, 90 against 82

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- No key needed to call it

Watch for: Four CVEs in 2026, three of them critical, one in tool confirmation itself

### TradingAgents (B)

Good for: Researchers who want a fixed multi-agent analysis of one listed instrument or crypto pair on a date, with point-in-time data for backtests, and who will run Python.

Also in its favour:
- No incidents deducted, where Agent Development Kit (ADK) loses 7 points for them

Watch for: No MCP client or MCP server, so an agent drives it only through Python or the CLI


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Agent Development Kit (ADK) | TradingAgents | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 67 | Agent Development Kit (ADK) +13 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 61 | Agent Development Kit (ADK) +26 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 80 | 61 | Agent Development Kit (ADK) +19 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 92 | 62 | Agent Development Kit (ADK) +30 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 60 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 90 | 82 | Agent Development Kit (ADK) +8 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 68 | even |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -7 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **73.6 · BB** | **64.7 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Agent Development Kit (ADK) | TradingAgents |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent framework | Agent framework |
| Vendor | Google | Tauric Research |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-13 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-01 |  |
| Customer content may train models | yes |  |
| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |
| Popularity | 22k stars | 114k stars |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (8) | none |

## Verdicts

**Agent Development Kit (ADK).** Python, TypeScript, Go, Java and Kotlin, with tool confirmation and context compaction built in. Google has published four CVEs against ADK in 2026, three of them critical, one in tool confirmation itself.

**TradingAgents.** An Apache 2.0 LangGraph framework at 0.7.0 with six releases in 90 days, a dated changelog with upgrade notes, a public test matrix and point-in-time rules for historical runs. It has no MCP client or server, no PyPI package and no documentation beyond the README, and its output is a model-written rating that places no orders.

## Before you call either

### Agent Development Kit (ADK)

1. Run 2.7.0 or later, which fixes the adk web code-injection CVE and the tool-confirmation forgery
2. Always pass tool_filter to McpToolset
3. Pin a 2.x minor and read the changelog before each bump. 2.12.0 needs Python 3.11 or later, which its changelog doesn't say
4. Set EventsCompactionConfig on the App for long sessions so context doesn't grow without limit
5. Keep ADK Web off public interfaces

### TradingAgents

1. Run headless with `tradingagents --ticker <T> --date <YYYY-MM-DD> --analysts market,news,fundamentals --save --no-show`; a missing answer stops the run and names the flag
2. Guard on the REVIEW signal before mapping `propagate()`'s decision to a rating; it means no rating could be parsed
3. Set SEC_EDGAR_USER_AGENT to the operator's own name and address before fetching US fundamentals
4. Keep provider keys out of the working directory tree unless intended, since the package loads the nearest .env on import
5. Treat the rating as model output for research; the framework places no orders and its results vary between runs

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Agent Development Kit (ADK) or TradingAgents?

Agent Development Kit (ADK) scores 73.6 (BB) on agent readiness against TradingAgents's 64.7 (B), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.

### Are Agent Development Kit (ADK) and TradingAgents open source?

Yes. Agent Development Kit (ADK) is open source (Apache-2.0). TradingAgents is open source (Apache-2.0).


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