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smolagents
★ 24kHugging Face's minimal agent library — agents that write their actions in code, any model, ~1,000 lines of core.
smolagents does the job of OpenAI Agents platform, self-hosted. It is Apache-2.0-licensed, so you can do essentially what you like with it, and it installs in about one command. OpenAI Agents platform bills $20 for it. 24k stars on GitHub.
Open-source replacement for OpenAI Agents platform.
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Self-hosting
- Easy
- The paid one costs
- $20
- GitHub stars
- 24k
Is it actually a replacement?
We have not written a verdict on OpenAI Agents platform yet, so this page says what smolagents is rather than judging what you would give up. When that product gets a page, this one will link to it.
smolagents questions
Is smolagents open source?
Yes — it is released under Apache-2.0.
Can I self-host smolagents?
Yes — we rate it easy to self-host.