Phidata (now Agno)
Multi-modal agent framework (renamed from Phidata to Agno in 2025) — agents, memory, knowledge, tools; emphasis on multi-modal pipelines.
Renamed · Verified 2026-10-27 · fresh as of 2026-10-27 · 37 cited facts, 1 with a third-party source · 2 recorded changes · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Multi-modal agent framework vendor fix
- Tier
- T3
- Latest release
- v3.1.10 (2026-10-23) registry fix
- License
- Apache-2.0 repo fix
- Pricing
- Free (control plane against local AgentOS); Pro USD 150/mo (one live AgentOS connection, 3 seats); Enterprise custom vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-27 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Protocols
- a2a, ag-ui, mcp-client, mcp-server vendor fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 54.96 (12-mo avg 66.96) · 285 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
Optimised for: lightweight Python multi-agent systems; alternative to LangChain bloat
Anti-fit: searched not found
Pros & cons
Pros
Lightweight Python framework; first-party memory + knowledge + reasoning + tools (no LangChain dependency); clean docs.
Cons
Smaller ecosystem than LangChain / LlamaIndex; rebrand from Phidata creates discovery friction; pre-product commercial revenue.
Claims & capabilities
OSS Python framework (MPL-2.0); rebranded Phidata → Agno 2024; pre-seed + seed funded (Mozilla Ventures + others)
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Deployment
- Self-hosted only — open-source SDK and AgentOS run in your own cloud; paid tiers add a hosted control plane
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- yes — MCPTools class connects agents to MCP servers (stdio, Streamable HTTP)
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
Alternatives to Phidata (now Agno) → live options ranked by shared design, licence, hosting and MCP support
Similar systems
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).
Sources (36 cited facts, 1 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is Multi-modal agent framework vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Multi-modal agent framework (renamed from Phidata to Agno in 2025) — agents, memory, kno… vendor
- Claims / benefits OSS Python framework (MPL-2.0); rebranded Phidata → Agno 2024; pre-seed + seed funded (M… vendor
- Created 2023 vendor
- Latest release v3.1.10 (2026-10-23) registry
- License Apache-2.0 repo
- GitHub agno-agi/agno — ~43k stars, last commit 2026-10 (phidatahq/phidata redirects here) repo
- Funding Agno (formerly Phidata) raised $10M seed 2025; commercial agent framework. vendor
- Pricing Free (control plane against local AgentOS); Pro USD 150/mo (one live AgentOS connection,… vendor
- Deployment Self-hosted only — open-source SDK and AgentOS run in your own cloud; paid tiers add a h… vendor
- HQ Distributed (US-based founders) vendor
- Founders / pedigree Ashpreet Bedi (CEO); founded 2022 (Phidata rebranded to Agno in 2024-12). vendor
- Code/weights release MPL-2.0 — OSS vendor
- MCP support yes — MCPTools class connects agents to MCP servers (stdio, Streamable HTTP) vendor
- Agent abstraction multi-agent (lightweight Python; agent + crew + team primitives) vendor
- Memory primitives key-value + vector + structured (first-party Storage / Memory / Knowledge primitives) vendor
- LLM lock multi-vendor (50+ providers — OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini / Groq / Ollama / vLLM) vendor
- Runtimes Python registry
- Optimised for lightweight Python multi-agent systems; alternative to LangChain bloat vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure HuggingFace Transformers; OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini SDKs; YC W22 alumni network vendor
- Pros Lightweight Python framework; first-party memory + knowledge + reasoning + tools (no Lan… vendor
- Cons Smaller ecosystem than LangChain / LlamaIndex; rebrand from Phidata creates discovery fr… vendor
- Project & sources www.agno.com/ vendor
- cost-input-usd-per-mtok 0 vendor
- cost-output-usd-per-mtok 0 vendor
- cost-tier free vendor
- cost-pricing-model free-tier vendor
- cost-last-verified 2026-06-29 vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus local vendor
- licensing-bucket open-core vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":767.95,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":66.96,"openrank_current":54.96,"par… third-party
- sdk-languages python registry
- protocol-support a2a,ag-ui,mcp-client,mcp-server vendor
- maturity ga registry
What changed
Changes to this record's lifecycle, licence, release, pricing and hosting facts, from the catalog's git history. Subscribe (Atom)
- 2026-10-27
- Model lock-in first recorded as “multi-vendor (50+ providers — OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini / Groq / Ollama / vLLM)” source
- 2026-10-27
- License “Mozilla MPL 2.0” → “Apache-2.0” source
- Latest release first recorded as “v3.1.10 (2026-10-23)” source
- Pricing first recorded as “Free (control plane against local AgentOS); Pro USD 150/mo (one live AgentOS connection, 3 seats); Enterprise custom” source
- Deployment first recorded as “Self-hosted only — open-source SDK and AgentOS run in your own cloud; paid tiers add a hosted control plane” source
- MCP support first recorded as “yes — MCPTools class connects agents to MCP servers (stdio, Streamable HTTP)” source
Related systems
References (44)
- Anthropic Claude (foundation models) integrates with · depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: HuggingFace Transformers; OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini SDKs; YC W22 alumni network
- Browserbase integrates with — Agno ships a browserbase toolkit (agno.tools.browserbase). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cartesia Sonic integrates with — Agno ships a cartesia toolkit (agno.tools.cartesia). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Chroma integrates with — Agno ships a chroma vector DB integration module (agno.vectordb.chroma). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cohere Command R+ / Command A integrates with — Agno ships a cohere model provider module (agno.models.cohere). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cohere Embed integrates with — Agno ships a cohere embedder (agno.knowledge.embedder.cohere). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Daytona integrates with — Agno ships a daytona toolkit (agno.tools.daytona). (verified 2026-10-29)
- DeepSeek R1 / V3 family integrates with — Agno ships a deepseek model provider module (agno.models.deepseek). (verified 2026-10-29)
- e2b integrates with — Agno ships a e2b toolkit (agno.tools.e2b). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Elasticsearch integrates with — Agno ships a elasticsearch vector DB integration module (agno.vectordb.elasticsearch). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Fireworks AI integrates with — Agno ships a fireworks model provider module (agno.models.fireworks). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Google Gemini 3 family integrates with · depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: HuggingFace Transformers; OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini SDKs; YC W22 alumni network
- Hugging Face Inference API (Embeddings) integrates with — Agno ships a huggingface embedder (agno.knowledge.embedder.huggingface). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Jina AI Embeddings integrates with — Agno ships a jina embedder (agno.knowledge.embedder.jina). (verified 2026-10-29)
- LanceDB integrates with — Agno ships a lancedb vector DB integration module (agno.vectordb.lancedb). (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangChain (framework) integrates with — Agno ships a langchaindb vector DB integration module (agno.vectordb.langchaindb). (verified 2026-10-29)
- LightRAG integrates with — Agno ships a lightrag vector DB integration module (agno.vectordb.lightrag). (verified 2026-10-29)
- LiteLLM integrates with — Agno ships a litellm model provider module (agno.models.litellm). (verified 2026-10-29)
- LlamaIndex (framework) integrates with — Agno ships a llamaindex vector DB integration module (agno.vectordb.llamaindex). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mem0 integrates with — Agno ships a mem0 toolkit (agno.tools.mem0). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Meta Llama 4 family integrates with — Agno ships a meta model provider module (agno.models.meta). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Milvus integrates with — Agno ships a milvus vector DB integration module (agno.vectordb.milvus). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mistral Embed integrates with — Agno ships a mistral embedder (agno.knowledge.embedder.mistral). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family integrates with — Agno ships a mistral model provider module (agno.models.mistral). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP spec) integrates with — Agno ships MCP tools (agno.tools.mcp) for connecting agents to MCP servers. (verified 2026-10-29)
- MongoDB Atlas Vector Search integrates with — Agno ships a mongodb vector DB integration module (agno.vectordb.mongodb). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Neo4j integrates with — Agno ships a neo4j toolkit (agno.tools.neo4j). (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenAI Embeddings integrates with — Agno ships a openai embedder (agno.knowledge.embedder.openai). (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) integrates with · depends on at runtime — adjacent-infrastructure cell: HuggingFace Transformers; OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini SDKs; YC W22 alumni network
- OpenBB integrates with — Agno ships a openbb toolkit (agno.tools.openbb). (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenRouter integrates with — Agno ships a openrouter model provider module (agno.models.openrouter). (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenSearch integrates with — Agno ships a opensearch vector DB integration module (agno.vectordb.opensearch). (verified 2026-10-29)
- pgvector integrates with — Agno ships a pgvector vector DB integration module (agno.vectordb.pgvector). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pinecone integrates with — Agno ships a pineconedb vector DB integration module (agno.vectordb.pineconedb). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Portkey AI integrates with — Agno ships a portkey model provider module (agno.models.portkey). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Qdrant integrates with — Agno ships a qdrant vector DB integration module (agno.vectordb.qdrant). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Replicate integrates with — Agno ships a replicate toolkit (agno.tools.replicate). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Sentence Transformers integrates with — Agno ships a sentence_transformer embedder (agno.knowledge.embedder.sentence_transformer). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Together AI integrates with — Agno ships a together model provider module (agno.models.together). (verified 2026-10-29)
- vLLM integrates with — Agno ships a vllm model provider module (agno.models.vllm). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Voyage AI (MongoDB) integrates with — Agno ships a voyageai embedder (agno.knowledge.embedder.voyageai). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Weaviate integrates with — Agno ships a weaviate vector DB integration module (agno.vectordb.weaviate). (verified 2026-10-29)
- xAI Grok 4 integrates with — Agno ships a xai model provider module (agno.models.xai). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Zep & Graphiti integrates with — Agno ships a zep toolkit (agno.tools.zep). (verified 2026-10-29)
Referenced by (20)
- AgentOps integrates with — AgentOps docs have a Phidata integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Arize Phoenix integrates with — Arize Phoenix docs have a Phidata integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Braintrust integrates with — Braintrust docs have a Phidata integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Browserbase integrates with — Browserbase docs have a Phidata integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Comet ML integrates with — Comet's Opik docs have a Phidata integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- e2b integrates with — E2B docs have a Phidata integration guide. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LanceDB integrates with — LanceDB's docs have a Phidata integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langfuse integrates with — Langfuse's integrations directory has a Phidata integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mem0 integrates with — Mem0 docs have an Agno integration page (Add persistent multimodal memory to Agno-based agents using Mem0 for text and image interactions). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Milvus integrates with — Milvus's integrations overview lists a Milvus + Phidata integration tutorial. (verified 2026-10-29)
- MongoDB Atlas Vector Search integrates with — MongoDB's Atlas AI Integrations page lists Phidata as an integration (some entries are marked community-maintained). (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenInference integrates with — The OpenInference repo README lists an OpenInference instrumentation package for Phidata. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenLLMetry (Traceloop) integrates with — OpenLLMetry's What's Supported page lists Phidata as instrumented out of the box. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Portkey AI integrates with — Portkey docs have an Agno AI agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pydantic Logfire integrates with — Pydantic Logfire integrations docs have a Agno page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Qdrant integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a Phidata integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Together AI integrates with — Together AI docs third-party/agent integrations: Agno. (verified 2026-10-29)
- TrueFoundry AI Gateway integrates with — TrueFoundry AI Gateway ecosystem lists a Agno integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Weaviate integrates with — Weaviate's integrations / model-provider docs list Phidata as an integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Weights & Biases integrates with — W&B Weave docs have a Phidata integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)