awesome-ai-stack

A curated stack of the tools and services you actually use to build AI systems — each with a detail page and runnable sample code.

Pricing
License
Language
Last updated: Show all
Sort: A–Z

Agent Frameworks

Libraries for orchestrating reasoning loops, tools, and multi-agent flows

Agno

Agno

Agno

High-performance framework and runtime (AgentOS) for multi-agent systems

v2.8.02026-07-20PythonApache-2.0
41.4k Open source Free tier Paid
AutoGen

AutoGen

Microsoft

Microsoft's multi-agent conversation framework (maintenance-only; new work moved to Microsoft Agent Framework)

Maintenance onlyNo updates in 6+ monthspython-v0.7.52025-09-30PythonMIT
59.9k Completely free Open source
CrewAI

CrewAI

CrewAI

Role-based multi-agent orchestration — assemble a crew of agents with goals and tasks.

v1.15.52026-07-20PythonMIT
56.0k Open source Free tier Paid
DSPy

DSPy

Stanford NLP

Program — don't prompt — language models; declare modules and let DSPy compile and optimize the prompts.

v3.2.12026-05-05PythonMIT
36.3k Completely free Open source

instructor

567 Labs

Structured, validated outputs from any LLM — define a Pydantic model and get a typed object back.

v1.15.42026-06-28PythonMIT
13.6k Completely free Open source
LangChain

LangChain

LangChain

The original LLM-app framework — standard model/tool interfaces, hundreds of integrations, and the create_agent prebuilt that compiles to a LangGraph agent

langchain-core==1.5.02026-07-21Python / JSMIT
142.4k Completely free Open source
LangGraph

LangGraph

LangChain

Graph-based orchestration for stateful, multi-step agents with branching, loops, and human-in-the-loop

v1.2.92026-07-10Python / JSMIT
37.9k Open source Free tier Paid
LlamaIndex

LlamaIndex

LlamaIndex

Data framework for building RAG pipelines and document agents over your own data

v0.14.232026-06-24PythonMIT
51.0k Open source Free tier Paid

OpenAI's lightweight SDK for agents with tools, handoffs, and guardrails

v0.18.32026-07-17PythonMIT
28.1k Completely free Open source
Pydantic AI

Pydantic AI

Pydantic

Type-safe agent framework from the Pydantic team — structured, validated results with any model

v2.16.02026-07-23PythonMIT
18.7k Completely free Open source
smolagents

smolagents

Hugging Face

Hugging Face's minimal library for agents that act by writing and running code

v1.26.02026-05-29PythonApache-2.0
28.5k Completely free Open source

Coding Agents

Autonomous agents that read, write, and run code to complete software tasks

Aider

Aider

Aider

AI pair programming in your terminal — edits your code and auto-commits each change to git.

No updates in 6+ monthsv0.86.02025-08-09PythonApache-2.0
47.6k Completely free Open source
Cline

Cline

Cline

Autonomous coding agent inside VS Code — plans, edits files, runs commands, and supports MCP tools.

v4.0.102026-07-20TypeScriptApache-2.0
65.0k Completely free Open source
Continue

Continue

Continue

Open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains — autocomplete, chat, and agents

v2.0.0-vscode2026-06-19TypeScriptApache-2.0
35.0k Completely free Open source
GooseGoose

Goose

Block

Block's open-source, extensible coding agent for the terminal and desktop

v1.43.02026-07-14RustApache-2.0
51.5k Completely free Open source
mini-SWE-agent

mini-SWE-agent

Princeton NLP

The minimal successor to SWE-agent — a ~100-line core that autonomously resolves GitHub issues, as performant but far simpler

v2.4.62026-07-23PythonMIT
6.0k Completely free Open source

SST's open-source, model-agnostic terminal coding agent with a TUI

v1.18.42026-07-20TypeScriptMIT
188.8k Completely free Open source
OpenHands

OpenHands

All Hands AI

Open-source platform for autonomous AI software developers that edit code, run commands, and browse the web

cloud-1.47.12026-07-21PythonMIT
81.8k Open source Free tier Paid
Roomote

Roomote

Roo Code

Formerly Roo Code

Cloud autonomous coding agent that runs tasks end to end across Slack, GitHub, and Linear

Proprietary
Paid
SWE-agent

SWE-agent

Princeton NLP

Princeton's agent that autonomously resolves real GitHub issues via an agent–computer interface. Now maintenance-only — superseded by mini-SWE-agent

Maintenance onlyNo updates in 1+ yearv1.1.02025-05-22PythonMIT
19.9k Completely free Open source

LLM Providers & Gateways

Foundation-model APIs — and the gateways that unify them — powering an AI system’s reasoning

Frontier LLM API with strong tool-use and long-context reasoning, ideal as an agent's core model

APIProprietary
Paid

Google's Gemini models via the AI Studio API — long context, multimodal, with a free tier

APIProprietary
Free tier Paid
Groq

Groq

Groq

Ultra-fast inference API for open models on custom LPU hardware

APIProprietary
Free tier Paid

LiteLLM

BerriAI

Call 100+ LLM APIs through one OpenAI-style interface, plus a proxy with routing, fallbacks, and cost tracking.

v1.93.02026-07-19PythonMIT
54.4k Open source Paid
LM Studio

LM Studio

LM Studio

Desktop app to discover, run, and serve local LLMs with an OpenAI-compatible server

AppProprietary
Free tier Paid
Mistral AI

Mistral AI

Mistral AI

European model lab with strong open-weight models and a hosted API (La Plateforme)

APIProprietary
Free tier Paid
Ollama

Ollama

Ollama

Run open LLMs locally with one command — an OpenAI-compatible API for offline, private agents.

v0.32.12026-07-16GoMIT
176.7k Open source Free tier Paid
OpenAI

OpenAI

OpenAI

OpenAI's GPT models via the API — function calling, structured outputs, and the de-facto API shape

v2.47.02026-07-22APIProprietary
31.2k Paid

OpenRouter

OpenRouter

One OpenAI-compatible API to 300+ models across providers, with routing and fallbacks

APIProprietary
Free tier Paid
vLLM

vLLM

PyTorch Foundation

High-throughput serving engine for running open LLMs with an OpenAI-compatible API

v0.25.12026-07-14PythonApache-2.0
86.9k Completely free Open source

Vector Stores & Memory

Embeddings storage and retrieval for long-term memory and RAG

Chroma

Chroma

Chroma

Open-source embedding database for RAG — store vectors and query by similarity in a few lines.

v1.5.92026-05-05PythonApache-2.0
28.9k Open source Free tier Paid
LanceDB

LanceDB

LanceDB

Embedded vector database built on the Lance columnar format — serverless and local-first

python-v0.35.0-beta.22026-07-14Rust / PythonApache-2.0
11.0k Open source Free tier Paid

Mem0

Mem0

Memory layer for agents — extracts and recalls facts across sessions, not raw chat logs.

v2.0.132026-07-22PythonApache-2.0
61.5k Open source Free tier Paid
Milvus

Milvus

Zilliz

Open-source vector database built for billion-scale similarity search

v2.6.202026-07-14GoApache-2.0
45.3k Open source Free tier Paid

pgvector

pgvector

Postgres extension for vector similarity search — add agent memory and RAG without a separate database.

v0.8.52026-07-08SQL / CPostgreSQL
22.3k Completely free Open source
Qdrant

Qdrant

Qdrant

High-performance open-source vector database for similarity search and agent memory

v1.18.32026-07-17RustApache-2.0
33.5k Open source Free tier Paid

Run embedding models locally (e.g. bge-m3) to turn text into vectors for RAG and memory — no API.

v5.6.02026-06-16PythonApache-2.0
18.9k Completely free Open source
Weaviate

Weaviate

Weaviate

Open-source vector database with hybrid search, filtering, and built-in vectorizers

v1.38.62026-07-21GoBSD-3-Clause
16.6k Open source Free tier Paid
Zep

Zep

Zep

Long-term memory layer for agents, building a temporal knowledge graph from conversations

No updates in 6+ monthszep-crewai-v1.1.12025-09-11PythonApache-2.0
4.8k Open source Free tier Paid

Observability & Eval

Tracing, evaluation, and monitoring for AI system runs

Open-source LLM and agent observability — OpenTelemetry tracing and evals you can self-host

arize-phoenix-v19.4.02026-07-22PythonElastic-2.0
10.7k Open source Free tier Paid
DeepEval

DeepEval

Confident AI

Open-source "Pytest for LLMs" — unit-test your model and RAG output with metrics.

v4.1.32026-07-12PythonApache-2.0
17.1k Open source Free tier Paid
Helicone

Helicone

Helicone

Open-source LLM observability via a one-line proxy — logging, caching, and cost tracking

No updates in 6+ monthsv2025.08.21-12025-08-21TypeScriptApache-2.0
6.0k Open source Free tier Paid
Langfuse

Langfuse

Langfuse

Open-source tracing, evaluation, and analytics for LLM and agent applications

v3.224.02026-07-22TypeScriptMIT
31.7k Open source Free tier Paid
LangSmith

LangSmith

LangChain

LangChain's hosted platform for tracing, evaluating, and monitoring LLM and agent apps (works with or without LangChain)

SaaS / SDKProprietary
Free tier Paid
Opik

Opik

Comet

Comet's open-source platform for tracing, evaluating, and monitoring LLM apps

v2.1.322026-07-17PythonApache-2.0
20.8k Open source Free tier Paid
Ragas

Ragas

Exploding Gradients

Open-source evaluation framework for RAG pipelines and LLM applications

No updates in 6+ monthsv0.4.32026-01-13PythonApache-2.0
15.0k Completely free Open source

Agent Tooling & Integrations

Capabilities you plug into an agent — web access, browser control, sandboxes, and integration hubs

Browser Use

Browser Use

Browser Use

Let an LLM agent drive a real browser — navigate, click, type, and extract from any website.

v0.13.62026-07-17PythonMIT
106.2k Open source Free tier Paid
Composio

Composio

Composio

Connects agents to 1000+ external apps with managed auth and ready-made tool definitions.

@composio/experimental@0.2.02026-07-16PythonMIT
29.3k Open source Free tier Paid

Daytona

Daytona

Secure, elastic infrastructure for running AI-generated code in fast, fully isolated sandboxes

v0.190.02026-06-23GoAGPL-3.0
72.2k Open source Free tier Paid

Docker

Docker, Inc.

The container runtime most self-hosted agent sandboxes are built on — isolate and run model-generated code in a throwaway container

docker-v29.6.22026-07-16GoApache-2.0
71.9k Open source Free tier Paid
E2B

E2B

E2B

Secure, isolated cloud sandboxes that let AI agents run model-generated code safely

e2b@2.35.12026-07-22PythonApache-2.0
13.1k Open source Free tier Paid
Exa

Exa

Exa

Neural web search API for agents — semantic search plus full page contents in one call

v2.16.12026-07-08Python / TypeScriptProprietary
222 Free tier Paid
Firecrawl

Firecrawl

Firecrawl

Crawl or scrape any URL and get back clean, LLM-ready markdown or structured data.

v2.11.02026-06-19TypeScriptAGPL-3.0
154.7k Open source Free tier Paid

Modal

Modal Labs

Serverless cloud runtime whose Sandboxes run untrusted, model-generated code in isolated containers on demand

v1.3.12026-01-22PythonApache-2.0
494 Free tier Paid
Stagehand

Stagehand

Browserbase

AI browser-automation framework — drive Playwright with act, extract, and observe in natural language.

stagehand-server-v3/v3.7.42026-07-21TypeScriptMIT
23.6k Open source Free tier Paid

Tavily

Tavily

Web search API built for LLMs and agents — returns clean, ranked, RAG-ready results from one call.

Python / TypeScriptProprietary
Free tier Paid

Guardrails & Safety

Validate, constrain, and steer model input and output at runtime.

Guardrails AI

Guardrails AI

Guardrails AI

Validate and structure LLM input/output with composable validators from the Guardrails Hub.

v0.10.22026-06-04PythonApache-2.0
7.2k Open source Paid

Programmable rails for LLM apps — keep conversations safe, on-topic, and on-policy with Colang flows.

v0.23.02026-07-01PythonApache-2.0
6.8k Completely free Open source

Voice Agents

Frameworks for real-time, conversational voice and multimodal agents

Realtime framework for voice, video, and physical AI agents on the LiveKit WebRTC stack

livekit-agents@1.6.62026-07-18PythonApache-2.0
11.5k Open source Free tier Paid
Pipecat

Pipecat

Daily

Open-source Python framework for real-time voice and multimodal conversational agents

v1.6.02026-07-21PythonBSD-2-Clause
13.7k Open source Free tier Paid