Agno
Also known as: Phidata, AgentOS
Python agent framework and AgentOS runtime (formerly Phidata) for building, running and managing agents, teams and workflows in your own cloud.
Agno is a framework and runtime for building agent platforms, formerly known as Phidata. Teams build with the open source Python SDK, run what they build on the AgentOS runtime in their own cloud, and manage it from the AgentOS control plane. The SDK gives three patterns: agents, teams of agents that delegate and coordinate, and workflows that run ordered steps with loops, parallel branches and approval gates. More than 100 toolkits, MCP tools and a broad model provider catalog sit behind them.
Agents get persistent memory per user, knowledge bases backed by vector stores, sessions, human-in-the-loop confirmation before sensitive tool calls, and evals that run in development and CI. AgentOS serves agents over a REST API, as an MCP server, over A2A and in chat apps such as Slack and WhatsApp, records traces of runs, model calls and tool calls in the customer's own database, schedules cron jobs, and enforces JWT authentication with scoped roles, service accounts and per-user isolation.
Agno also publishes complete agent applications as templates, including Scout for company intelligence, Dash for data questions and Coda for code review and triage. The control plane has a free tier for local use, a Pro tier for live deployments with basic role-based access and a SAML SSO add-on, and an Enterprise tier with per-resource RBAC, audit logs and a self-hosted control plane; Agno states that customer data stays in the customer's own cloud.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://www.agno.com/
Category
Agent infrastructure
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Target customers
Deployment options
In practice
You're running many agents and heavier frameworks feel sluggish and memory-hungry. Agno's agents instantiate near-instantly with a small footprint, and turn plain Python functions into callable tools so you write minimal code.
A single agent isn't enough; your task needs research, analysis, and writing handled by different specialists. Agno lets you compose agents into a coordinated team, or a deterministic workflow with steps, loops, and parallel branches.
You've prototyped an agent but need to run it as a real service in your own cloud. Agno's AgentOS runtime serves agents over FastAPI with tracing, scheduling, and role-based access, keeping your data and permissions in your environment.
Sources & related URLs
Related / legacy domains
Agentic Index coverage score
13.0 / 14 capabilities · 93%
| Integrations & Tool Calling | Full |
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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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| Workflow Orchestration | Full |
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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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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Full |
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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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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Full |
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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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| Security, Identity & Governance | Full |
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AgentOS documents a deep access surface: 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. Compliance evidence is thinner: 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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| Observability & Auditability | Full |
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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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| Memory & State Persistence | Full |
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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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| Deployment & Data Residency | Full |
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The open source runtime runs in the customer's own cloud, with documented deployment templates for Docker, AWS, Azure, GCP, Helm, Modal, Railway and Render; the pricing page states 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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| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Full |
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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 one stands alone and does its own job. SourceAgno, docs.agno.com/deploy/templatesread 2026-09-21 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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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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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Full |
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The developer sets each agent's model by choosing a provider model class and model id, from a documented catalog spanning OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, open-weight hosts and gateways, and the homepage shows agents on different models side by side, so model choice sits with the customer. SourceAgno, docs.agno.com/models/overview and agno.com homepageread 2026-09-21 |
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| APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Full |
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Agents built with the Python SDK are served by AgentOS over a documented REST API, as an MCP server, over A2A and through chat interfaces, with a published API reference and authentication on each route, so outside callers drive the platform. SourceAgno, docs.agno.com/agent-os/security/overview and agno.com/pricingread 2026-09-21 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Full |
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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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| Browser & Computer Use | Not documented |
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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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Recent platform changes
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. Authorization engines are pluggable, including a fine grained option.
Bears on: Security / enterprise
View sourceAgno 3.0.11 introduced a shared Knowledge retrieval pipeline with MMR reranking for result diversity and recency reranking to favor newer revisions. It deprecates reranker configuration on individual vector databases in favor of the Knowledge layer. The release adds guarded APIs for relocating indexed documentation sources, with migration running as a dry run by default. Typed page tool results expose errors, completeness and truncation, while run outputs and API schemas gain a cancellation_stage field.
Bears on: Memory / state
View sourceAgno announced comprehensive per-user data isolation across its platform, extending beyond sessions to cover components, entity memory, and vector databases. The update also introduced CodeMode for direct Python execution by agents and AdvisorTools for multi-model escalation, allowing smaller primary models to consult frontier models.
Bears on: Security / enterprise
View sourcePricing
From $150/mo · free tier
flat
Included quota
Free ($0): control plane for a local AgentOS, unlimited usage and retention, pre-built templates, community support. Pro ($150/month): control plane for one live AgentOS connection, three team seats, basic RBAC, email support. Enterprise (custom): end-user management and audit logs, per-resource RBAC, self-hosted control plane, Slack Connect support and SLA.
What is public
The Agno runtime is free and open source. The control plane publishes Free at $0 for a local AgentOS and Pro at $150 per month for one live connection and three seats, with add-ons of $30 per seat, $95 per live connection and $300 per month for SAML SSO; Enterprise is custom. Agno states there are no per-event, compute, storage, retention or egress fees.
Billing mechanics
A flat control plane subscription (Free, Pro at $150/month plus add-ons, or Enterprise) with no usage metering, because the runtime and data run in the customer's own cloud; model provider and infrastructure costs are billed by those providers.
Cost watchouts
Model provider and cloud infrastructure costs are the customer's own, since AgentOS runs in the customer's cloud. Pro add-ons raise the bill above $150: $30 per extra seat, $95 per extra live AgentOS connection and $300 per month for SAML SSO.
Variable cost rationale
Agno's fee is a flat subscription with no usage metering; variable cost is the customer's own infrastructure and model provider usage.
Additional watchouts
SAML SSO is a paid add-on on Pro and per-resource RBAC and audit logs start at Enterprise; you operate your own AgentOS infrastructure.
Overage / add-ons
No per-event, compute, storage, retention or egress fees on any plan. Pro adds $30 per month per extra seat, $95 per month per extra live connection and $300 per month for SAML SSO.
Sales call required
Mixed (some tiers require a call)
Free / trial
Free tier
Lowest paid plan
Pro $150/mo
Commercial notes
The runtime is free and open source and serving agents costs nothing on any plan; Agno charges only for the hosted control plane and enterprise governance.
Key ambiguities
Enterprise pricing is by sales; Free and Pro publish their inclusions and add-on rates.
Cancellation / refund
The open source runtime has no contract; the Free control plane is free; Pro is self-serve at $150 per month with a free trial; Enterprise is contracted through sales.
Support SLA / resale
Community support on Free, email support on Pro, and Slack Connect support with a service SLA, security reviews and monthly engineering office hours on Enterprise.
Missing data
Enterprise pricing is not published.
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