What Agno does
Agno is presented as a self-driving agent platform that runs in your cloud, aimed at teams building customer-facing and internal agents. The Agno SDK builds agents, teams and workflows, with 100+ toolkits plus knowledge, memory, scheduling, evaluations, guardrails and human-in-the-loop options. AgentOS Runtime turns agents into an API and an MCP server, with durable execution, resumable streaming, JWT-based RBAC, audit logs and tracing. A control plane offers run management, traces, sessions, evals, usage metrics, user roles and admin approvals. The page lists native support for 30+ model providers and deployment on Docker, Google, Railway, AWS and Fly.io. Serving options include REST, MCP, WhatsApp and Slack. The page describes fixed pricing with no per-usage bills.
How Agno compares with its closest alternatives
All 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Agno does. 4 of the 5 offer an API, as Agno does. Agno offers a web app and a desktop app. Of the alternatives, 4 offer a web app and 2 offer a desktop app. Agno was founded in 2024; the alternatives were founded between 2022 and 2024, 2 of them earlier. Agno is based in San Francisco, United States; 2 of the 4 alternatives with a known headquarters are in the United States too, and the others in Switzerland and Singapore.