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OpenAI Agents SDK
★ 16kLightweight agent orchestration with handoffs, guardrails and tracing — works with 100+ non-OpenAI models too.
OpenAI Agents SDK does the job of OpenAI Assistants API, self-hosted. It is MIT-licensed, so you can do essentially what you like with it, and it installs in about one command. OpenAI Assistants API bills $20 for it. 16k stars on GitHub.
Open-source replacement for OpenAI Assistants API.
- Licence
- MIT
- Self-hosting
- Easy
- The paid one costs
- $20
- GitHub stars
- 16k
Is it actually a replacement?
We have not written a verdict on OpenAI Assistants API yet, so this page says what OpenAI Agents SDK is rather than judging what you would give up. When that product gets a page, this one will link to it.
OpenAI Agents SDK questions
Is OpenAI Agents SDK open source?
Yes — it is released under MIT.
Can I self-host OpenAI Agents SDK?
Yes — we rate it easy to self-host.