OpenAI Swarm (deprecated)

OpenAI Swarm — experimental educational multi-agent framework released Oct 2024; deprecated in favour of the OpenAI Agents SDK in Mar 2025.

Deprecated · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 15 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction

At a glance

Type: Experimental multi-agent recipe repo fix
Tier: T4
Section: Agent frameworks (no first-party memory layer)
Created: 2024 repo fix
Latest release: searched not found fix
License: MIT repo fix
GitHub: openai/swarm — ~22k stars, last commit 2026-04 (not archived; no releases) repo fix
Pricing: searched not found fix
Funding: searched not found fix
Freshness: 2026-10-29 fix
Layer: agent-infra repo fix
Licensing: open-source repo fix
Deployment locus: local repo fix
Platform vs product: platform repo fix
Developer activity: OpenRank 0.39 (12-mo avg 0.57) · 5 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix

Optimised for: searched not found

Anti-fit: searched not found

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Educational multi-agent framework released 2024-10; superseded by OpenAI Agents SDK in 2025-03; MIT.

Alternatives to OpenAI Swarm (deprecated) → live options ranked by shared design, licence, hosting and MCP support

Other agent frameworks (no first-party memory layer) in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.

Model Context Protocol (MCP spec) T1
Anthropic-introduced open protocol (Nov 2024) for connecting LLMs to data sources and tools. Donated by Anthropic to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation (announced 2025-12-09); now governed as Model Context Protocol, a Series of LF Projects, LLC. Supported across Claude, ChatGPT, VS Code, Cursor and many other clients.
LangChain (framework) T1
Dominant Python/JS framework for LLM apps — tool calling, agents, retrievers, runnables. Memory is one component (LangMem cross-listed); the framework itself is the product.
Vercel AI SDK T1
Vercel's TypeScript LLM SDK — streaming, tool calls, structured outputs, agents. Dominant framework for Next.js LLM apps.
LlamaIndex (framework) T1
Data framework for LLM apps — connectors, indices, query engines, agents, workflows. Memory is one of many subsystems (LlamaIndex Memory cross-listed).
OpenAI Agents SDK T1
OpenAI's official Python framework for agents — handoffs, guardrails, tracing built in. Successor to OpenAI Swarm (experimental); officially supported.
LangGraph (orchestration) T1
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).

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2026-10-27
- Lifecycle first recorded as “superseded”
- Deployment first recorded as “Self-hosted only — library” source
#270

Invariant Guardrails integrates with — Invariant Gateway README has a OpenAI Swarm integration section. (verified 2026-10-29)
OpenAI Agents SDK succeeds — Successor to OpenAI Swarm (experimental)
Portkey AI integrates with — Portkey docs have an OpenAI Swarm agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
TrueFoundry AI Gateway integrates with — TrueFoundry AI Gateway ecosystem lists a OpenAI Swarm integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)