LangGraph (orchestration)
https://www.langchain.com/langgraph
LangChain's stateful graph runtime for agents — explicit state, persistence, time-travel debugging, human-in-the-loop. Memory is one persistence target (LangGraph Persistence cross-listed).
Active · Verified 2026-10-27 · fresh as of 2026-10-27 · 45 cited facts, 12 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Stateful agent graph runtime vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Latest release
- v1.2.18 (2026-10-26) registry fix
- Pricing
- searched not found fix
- Funding
- Part of LangChain Inc — same funding (see LangChain row). vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-27 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- open-source vendor fix
- SDK languages
- python, typescript third-party fix
- Protocols
- a2a, mcp-client, mcp-server vendor fix
- Compliance
- gdpr, hipaa, iso27001, iso42001, soc2-type2 vendor fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 23.15 (12-mo avg 26.44) · 270 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
Optimised for: searched not found
Anti-fit: searched not found
Pros & cons
Pros
searched not found
Cons
searched not found
Claims & capabilities
Adopted by Klarna, Uber, LinkedIn, Replit per LangChain marketing.
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Deployment
- Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — OSS library; LangSmith Deployment cloud, hybrid, or self-hosted Agent Server
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- yes — MCP tools via LangChain MCPAdapter (langchain.mcp) for LangGraph-based agents
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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Sources (44 cited facts, 12 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is Stateful agent graph runtime vendor
- What it does & what's distinct LangChain's stateful graph runtime for agents — explicit state, persistence, time-travel… vendor
- Claims / benefits Adopted by Klarna, Uber, LinkedIn, Replit per LangChain marketing. vendor
- Created 2024 repo
- Latest release v1.2.18 (2026-10-26) registry
- License MIT vendor
- GitHub langchain-ai/langgraph — ~44k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo
- Funding Part of LangChain Inc — same funding (see LangChain row). vendor
- Customers / scale Adopted by Klarna, Elastic, Replit, Rakuten, BlackRock for stateful agent workflows. vendor
- Deployment Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — OSS library; LangSmith Deployment cloud, hybrid, or… vendor
- Code/weights release Active — last commit 2026-05 · 31,879★ repo
- MCP support yes — MCP tools via LangChain MCPAdapter (langchain.mcp) for LangGraph-based agents vendor
- Runtimes Python, TypeScript registry
- obs-langsmith yes vendor
- obs-opentelemetry yes vendor
- obs-datadog yes third-party
- obs-helicone yes third-party
- obs-weave yes third-party
- obs-langfuse yes third-party
- obs-arize yes third-party
- obs-custom Native LangSmith tracing; broad OTLP support via LangChain Callbacks vendor
- cost-token-budget yes vendor
- cost-prompt-caching yes vendor
- cost-semantic-caching yes vendor
- cost-batching yes vendor
- cost-model-routing yes vendor
- cost-streaming-only no vendor
- cost-observability-cost-attribution yes vendor
- eval-langsmith-evals yes vendor
- eval-braintrust yes third-party
- eval-weights-and-biases-agent yes third-party
- eval-helicone-evals yes third-party
- eval-custom-test-harness yes third-party
- eval-human-loop yes third-party
- eval-production-traffic-replay yes vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus local vendor
- licensing-bucket open-source vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":534.83,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":26.44,"openrank_current":23.15,"par… third-party
- compliance-certifications gdpr,hipaa,iso27001,iso42001,soc2-type2 vendor
- sdk-languages python,typescript third-party
- protocol-support a2a,mcp-client,mcp-server vendor
- maturity ga registry
What changed
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- 2026-10-27
- Latest release first recorded as “v1.2.18 (2026-10-26)” source
- Deployment first recorded as “Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — OSS library; LangSmith Deployment cloud, hybrid, or self-hosted Agent Server” source
- MCP support first recorded as “yes — MCP tools via LangChain MCPAdapter (langchain.mcp) for LangGraph-based agents” source
Related systems
References (3)
- LangSmith integrates with — LangGraph observability docs show tracing LangGraph agents to LangSmith. (verified 2026-10-29)
- MongoDB Atlas Vector Search integrates with — LangGraph checkpointer and long-term memory store docs list MongoDB (langgraph-checkpoint-mongodb, langgraph-store-mongodb) with an Atlas memory guide. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Qdrant integrates with — LangChain integrations index lists QdrantStore, a Qdrant BaseStore for LangGraph long-term memory (langgraph-store-qdrant). (verified 2026-10-29)
Referenced by (30)
- AgentOps integrates with — AgentOps docs have a LangGraph (orchestration) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Arize Phoenix integrates with — Arize Phoenix docs have a LangGraph (orchestration) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Braintrust integrates with — Braintrust docs have a LangGraph (orchestration) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Burr (DAGWorks) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: Hamilton (sister OSS framework, same company); LangGraph (closest competitor); MLflow / Phoenix observability
- Comet ML integrates with — Comet's Opik docs have a LangGraph (orchestration) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Datadog Agent Observability (LLM Observability) integrates with — Datadog LLM Observability auto-instrumentation page lists a LangGraph LLM integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Daytona integrates with — Daytona docs have a guide for running LangGraph (orchestration) with Daytona sandboxes. (verified 2026-10-29)
- e2b integrates with — E2B docs have a LangGraph (orchestration) integration guide. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Galileo integrates with — Galileo's third-party integrations docs list LangGraph (orchestration) as a supported integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Helicone integrates with — Helicone docs have a LangGraph (orchestration) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- HoneyHive integrates with — HoneyHive integrations docs have a LangGraph tracing/integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- IBM ContextForge MCP Gateway integrates with — IBM ContextForge docs have a LangGraph integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Laminar integrates with — Laminar integrations docs have a LangChain and LangGraph observability page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langfuse integrates with — Langfuse's integrations directory has a LangGraph (orchestration) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangGraph Persistence depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: requires LangGraph; checkpointer (SQLite/Postgres)
- LangMem (LangChain) depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: requires LangChain / LangGraph; BYO LLM + store
- LangSmith integrates with — LangSmith docs have a tracing integration page for LangGraph (orchestration). (verified 2026-10-29)
- LiteLLM integrates with — LiteLLM docs have a LangGraph provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mem0 integrates with — Mem0 docs have a LangGraph integration page (Build customer support agents using LangGraph for conversation flow and Mem0 for personalized responses). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Modal integrates with — Modal's examples include sandboxing a LangGraph agent's code on Modal. (verified 2026-10-29)
- MongoDB Atlas Vector Search integrates with — MongoDB's Atlas AI Integrations page lists LangGraph (orchestration) as an integration (some entries are marked community-maintained). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Neo4j integrates with — Neo4j's GenAI ecosystem docs have a LangGraph (orchestration) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails integrates with — NeMo Guardrails docs have a LangGraph integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Paragon ActionKit integrates with — Paragon "ActionKit for Tool Calling" page has a LangGraph / LangChain section. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Portkey AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a LangGraph agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pydantic Logfire integrates with — Pydantic Logfire integrations docs have a LangGraph page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Qdrant integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a LangGraph (orchestration) integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Temporal integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists LangGraph graphs as durable Temporal Workflows. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Together AI integrates with — Together AI docs third-party/agent integrations: LangGraph. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Zep & Graphiti integrates with — Zep docs have a LangGraph integration page (zep-langgraph package). (verified 2026-10-29)