Agentic Index
Agno vs Akka (2026)
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Both give agents a real runtime, not just a framework. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Agno is a high performance agent runtime with multi agent support and memory, Apache 2.0 self hosting, and Pro from $150 a month. Akka runs multi agent systems on a durable distributed runtime unifying orchestration, agents, memory and streaming in one software development kit, open source core under a business source license converting to Apache. Agno is Python and lighter, and Akka brings distributed durability from a lineage that has been solving this problem since long before agents existed.
On the Agentic Index agent infrastructure ranking, Agno and Akka both clear the bar: each documents all five production contract capabilities in full. 33 of the 186 vendors in the lane clear it. See the agent infrastructure ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Agno and Akka are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 1,084 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Agno if
- Python is your language and a lighter runtime suits you.
- Apache 2.0 from the start rather than a delayed conversion matters for your license review.
- A hundred and fifty a month flat is simpler to plan than per hour runtime pricing.
Choose Akka if
- Durable distributed execution is the property your production agents need.
- Streaming unified with orchestration and memory is a real architectural simplification.
- The runtime lineage matters because you have been burned by naive orchestration before.
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
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AgnoIntegrations & Tool Calling The Agno SDK ships more than 100 toolkits, alongside MCP tools and custom tools that agents call to act in outside systems. SourceAgno, agno.com homepage and docs.agno.com/tools/mcpread 2026-09-21 |
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AkkaIntegrations & Tool Calling Agents call function tools and MCP tools as the model requests, services integrate over REST, OpenAPI, gRPC, WebSocket and Kafka or other brokers, and guardrails check MCP tool requests and responses. Sourcedoc.akka.io/sdk/agents.html.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
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AgnoWorkflow Orchestration The SDK gives three patterns, agents, teams that delegate across member agents, and workflows that run ordered steps with loops, parallel branches and approval gates, so deterministic steps and agent steps combine in one run. SourceAgno, agno.com homepage and docs.agno.com/workflowsread 2026-09-21 |
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AkkaWorkflow Orchestration Durable workflows run long multi step processes with compensation and resume from the current step after a restart, agents share a session under a workflow, and autonomous agents coordinate by delegation, handoff, teams and moderation with a registry for dispatching to specialists at runtime. Sourcedoc.akka.io/sdk/workflows.html.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
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AgnoTriggers & Channel Coverage The Scheduler creates cron jobs that execute AgentOS endpoints and tracks their run history, so an agent, team or workflow starts without a person initiating it, and AgentOS interfaces serve agents in Slack, WhatsApp and other chat apps. SourceAgno, docs.agno.com/scheduler/overview and agno.com homepageread 2026-09-21 |
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AkkaTriggers & Channel Coverage Timed Actions schedule delayed and recurring calls, Consumers react to event streams and Kafka topics, and Akka Streaming processes real time inputs such as IoT metrics, audio and video that can start agents, alongside HTTP, gRPC, WebSocket and MCP endpoints. Sourcedoc.akka.io/llms.txtread 2026-09-27 |
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
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AgnoKnowledge Grounding & RAG Knowledge loads files, URLs or raw text into a knowledge base backed by a vector store, and the agent searches it to ground its response; a published pages mode keeps Markdown and vectors in sync with a documentation site and shows the page revision behind each result. SourceAgno, docs.agno.com/knowledge/overviewread 2026-09-21 |
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AkkaKnowledge Grounding & RAG Durable memory can hold semantic knowledge and retrieved data, and a sample RAG agent shows vector search with streaming, but indexing and retrieval over a customer's documents is code the developer writes. Akka does not ship a knowledge store of its own. Sourcedoc.akka.io/akka-memory.html.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
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AgnoMemory & State Persistence Memory stores facts per user_id in the configured database and loads them into later runs across conversations, with a memory mode controlling when records are created, updated or deleted, alongside sessions scoped to a single conversation. SourceAgno, docs.agno.com/memory/overviewread 2026-09-21 |
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AkkaMemory & State Persistence Akka Memory keeps session memory for the turns of an interaction and durable long term memory across users, sessions and agents, scoped per session, per agent or shared, stored as an event sourced journal that is both the in memory tier and the durable record, with compaction of older context. Akka does not publish retention or deletion terms. Sourcedoc.akka.io/akka-memory.html.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
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AgnoHuman Oversight & Guardrails Human-in-the-loop covers agents, teams and workflows: user confirmation requires explicit approval before a tool executes, user input and dynamic user input pause for information, and external tool execution hands a call outside the agent's control, with approvals managed from the AgentOS control plane. SourceAgno, docs.agno.com/hitl/overview and agno.com homepageread 2026-09-21 |
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AkkaHuman Oversight & Guardrails A workflow can pause for an approval command and resume where it left off, durably across crashes, deployments and days; autonomous agent pipelines carry a human approval task between drafting and publishing; Akka Verify HITL boundaries block in a reviewer queue until a person decides; and guardrails check model and MCP tool requests and responses, failing closed. Sourceakka.io/llms-full.txtread 2026-09-27 |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
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AgnoSecurity, Identity & Governance AgentOS offers JWT authentication across REST, MCP, A2A and WebSocket requests, roles as named bundles of scopes, service accounts and per-user data isolation, with basic RBAC on Pro, a SAML SSO add-on, and per-resource RBAC and audit logs on Enterprise. The site shows a SOC 2 badge with no report, auditor or date, and the attestation details sit in a trust center at trust.agno.com. SourceAgno, docs.agno.com/agent-os/security/overview and agno.com/pricingread 2026-09-21 |
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AkkaSecurity, Identity & Governance The trust center (Akka dba Lightbend, Inc.) lists SOC 2 Type II on request, a public SOC 3, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, PCI DSS, HIPAA and GDPR among 50 standards, and Akka Automated Operations provides access control at the organization level, with secured HTTP and gRPC endpoints and secrets management in the SDK. Sourcetrust.akka.ioread 2026-09-27 |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
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AgnoObservability & Auditability Tracing records execution spans in the customer's own database, covering run input and output, model calls, tool calls with timing, results and errors, team delegation and workflow steps, viewable in the control plane or queryable through the AgentOS API; retention is unlimited on every plan and Enterprise adds audit logs. SourceAgno, docs.agno.com/agent-os/tracing/overview and agno.com/pricingread 2026-09-21 |
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AkkaObservability & Auditability A non sampled, hash chained interaction log records each agent interaction with authority snapshots, Verify emits typed events for every guardrail, human and evaluation decision, the local and Akka console show traces for debugging, and metrics, logs and traces export over OpenTelemetry. Sourceakka.io/llms.txtread 2026-09-27 |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
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AgnoDeployment & Data Residency The open source runtime runs in the customer's own cloud, with deployment templates for Docker, AWS, Azure, GCP, Helm, Modal, Railway and Render. Agno says data never leaves the customer's system, and Enterprise adds a self hosted control plane. SourceAgno, agno.com/pricing and docs.agno.com/deploy/templatesread 2026-09-21 |
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AkkaDeployment & Data Residency Akka runs self managed on the customer's own VMs, containers, Kubernetes, PaaS or edge, or through Akka Automated Operations in the customer's VPC or Akka's serverless cloud, with projects pinned to chosen regions, multi region replication and data pinning, and sovereign cloud deployments for China, Hong Kong, Singapore, North America, Canada and the EU. Sourceakka.io/llms-full.txtread 2026-09-27 |
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
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AgnoPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Agno publishes complete agent applications as templates, each with its own repository: Scout, a company intelligence agent across web, Slack, Drive, wiki and CRM sources; Dash, a self-learning data agent; and Coda, a code companion for pull request review and issue triage in Slack. Each works on its own. SourceAgno, docs.agno.com/deploy/templatesread 2026-09-21 |
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AkkaPrebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs A samples and blueprints catalog filters by AI use case, pattern, domain and governance: downloadable working samples such as a medical tagging agent with human verification, a real estate customer service agent and an IoT monitoring agent, plus 460 blueprints that the Akka Specify plugin turns into runnable systems. Sourcedoc.akka.io/getting-started/samples.html.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
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AgnoModel Flexibility & Routing The developer sets each agent's model by choosing a provider model class and model id, from a catalog spanning OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, open-weight hosts and gateways, and agents on different models can run side by side. SourceAgno, docs.agno.com/models/overview and agno.com homepageread 2026-09-21 |
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AkkaModel Flexibility & Routing Nine providers are built in, Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Vertex AI, Bedrock, Mistral, Hugging Face, Ollama and LocalAI, any other plugs in as a custom provider, each agent can set its own model, and an AI Gateway Router and Akka Optimize route work to served open weight models. Sourcedoc.akka.io/sdk/integrations/ai-and-models.html.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
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AgnoAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Agents built with the Python SDK are served by AgentOS over a REST API, as an MCP server, over A2A and through chat interfaces, with a published API reference and authentication on each route. SourceAgno, docs.agno.com/agent-os/security/overview and agno.com/pricingread 2026-09-21 |
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AkkaAPIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility The Akka SDK is the component model for agents, workflows, entities, views and endpoints, services expose HTTP, gRPC and MCP endpoints with A2A and ACP built into agents, and a CLI and Claude Code plugin with an MCP server manage projects. The runtime is source available under BSL. Sourcedoc.akka.io/llms.txtread 2026-09-27 |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
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AgnoTesting, Debugging & Optimization Evals turn expected behavior into repeatable checks that run in development and CI: an accuracy eval runs the agent and has an evaluator model compare its response with the expected output, alongside agent as judge, reliability and performance evals. SourceAgno, docs.agno.com/evals/overviewread 2026-09-21 |
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AkkaTesting, Debugging & Optimization EvalKit scores a service against a dataset of eval cases with deterministic, heuristic and agentic evaluators, saves baselines that CI gates regressions against, and renders reports; RedKit red teams against AILuminate and OWASP LLM Top 10 taxonomies, and Verify runs evaluations inline or over the interaction log. Sourcedoc.akka.io/testing/evaluation/index.html.mdread 2026-09-27 |
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
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AgnoBrowser & Computer Use Interactive browsing in Agno runs through third party engines such as Browserbase, Stagehand and AgentQL, each bought separately. The product has no browser, desktop or computer control of its own, and its Web Browser toolkit opens URLs in a browser without operating the page. SourceAgno, docs.agno.com/tools/toolkits/others/web-browser and /tools/toolkits/web-scrape/browserbaseread 2026-09-21 |
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AkkaBrowser & Computer Use Akka is a runtime and SDK for backend agentic services, with no browser or computer use component. Sourcedoc.akka.io/llms.txtread 2026-09-27 |
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Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Pro from $150 a month, with a free tier and a free open source runtime. Enterprise is custom. | Free for development. Serverless Hobby is $10 a month and Priority is $0.25 per Akka hour, and self managed production is priced per core on custom terms. |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, exact | Contact only |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
Flat. The hosted control plane is a monthly subscription with no usage metering, and Pro add ons are priced per seat, per live connection and for SAML SSO. | Two units. Self managed production is licensed per core per year on custom terms, and the serverless Akka Automated Operations plans bill a flat $10 a month on Hobby or per Akka hour on Priority and Critical. Your VPC is priced per region. |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Low variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Mixed | Mixed |
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Pricing verified When this pricing was last checked |
Product updates
Newest first, each linked to its source.
Agno
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· Agent capability
CompanyOS, a new part of AgentOS, gives agents ongoing areas of responsibility called Products, each with Sources such as repositories, documentation, local Markdown files and websites.
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· Deployment / data residency
Agno v3.1.4 adds a sandbox parameter so ClaudeAgent and CodexAgent run their whole harness process inside an isolated computer for each session, with DockerSandbox as a provider the customer operates and AgentCoreSandbox on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime.
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· Security / enterprise
Role based access control and user management come to AgentOS in Agno 3.1.0, with a role store, scope policies, an audit log, a user directory and an admin interface.
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Akka
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· Human approval / guardrails
Akka SDK 3.7.0 adds a new guardrail API: a guardrail runs before each model call, on the agent's final reply, or before a function or MCP tool call, and allows or denies it.
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· Observability / auditability
Akka SDK 3.6.6 adds EvalKit, which runs agent evaluations as ordinary JUnit tests that score tool calls, arguments, replies and cost, with model judges and a minimum pass rate gate.
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