agentscope vs langchain
langchain is much bigger: 145.7k stars against 30.7k. Over the days we have tracked them agentscope moved +16.3% and langchain +2.6%, so agentscope is growing faster right now.
They split the axes: agentscope leads on context depth and noise control and customization, langchain on model freedom and setup ease.
Stars and commit dates come from our own daily tracking. The six axes are read off each project's documentation by our review pipeline, so they describe what a project says about itself, not what we measured in its code.
Where they stand today
A production-ready agent framework offering multi-tenancy, fine-grained permission controls, sandboxed workspaces, and an extensible middleware/event system for building trustworthy agent services.
- Stars
- 30.7k
- Tracked growth
- +16.3%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 1d ago
- Language
- Python
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Cost to run
- Requires a model provider API key (provider-dependent).
A broad, production-ready agent framework with a large ecosystem of integrations and modular abstractions to swap models, tools, and retrievers without rewriting application code.
- Stars
- 145.7k
- Tracked growth
- +2.6%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 2h ago
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Your API key, per-provider pricing
Six axes, head to head
Each axis runs 0 to 5. The label under a score is what that project's own docs claim, not a category average.
| Axis | agentscope | langchain |
|---|---|---|
Context depth How much of your codebase it sees before it answers: the open diff, the diff plus related files, or the whole repository. | ●●●●● Diff + related files | ●●●●● Diff/file only |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● Human-in-the-loop | ●●●●● None mentioned |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Extensible middleware & tools | ●●●●● Config & prompts |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Self-hostable | ●●●●● Cloud-key usage |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Provider-specific | ●●●●● Multiple providers |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● API key + config | ●●●●● One-command start |
Which one to pick
Pick agentscope if…
Production-ready — choose AgentScope when you need a deployable, multi-tenant agent platform with sandboxed workspaces and fine-grained permission controls.
- Context depth: Diff + related files (3/5 against 1/5)
- Noise control: Human-in-the-loop (3/5 against 1/5)
- Customization: Extensible middleware & tools (5/5 against 3/5)
Pick langchain if…
Model interoperability — Swap providers and integrations easily to prototype and productionize LLM applications with minimal code changes.
- Model freedom: Multiple providers (3/5 against 1/5)
- Setup ease: One-command start (5/5 against 3/5)
What people want from each one
agentscope-ai/agentscope
Hacker News: AgentScope: Lego-style Agent Building Platform from Alibaba Qwen drew 2 points and 0 comments.
langchain-ai/langchain
Hacker News: Why we no longer use LangChain for building our AI agents drew 480 points and 297 comments.
Questions people ask
Is agentscope better than langchain?
They split the axes: agentscope leads on context depth and noise control and customization, langchain on model freedom and setup ease. agentscope is worth picking when production-ready — choose AgentScope when you need a deployable, multi-tenant agent platform with sandboxed workspaces and fine-grained permission controls.
Which of agentscope and langchain keeps my code private?
agentscope: Self-hostable (4/5). langchain: Cloud-key usage (3/5).
What does each one cost to run?
agentscope: Requires a model provider API key (provider-dependent).. langchain: Your API key, per-provider pricing.
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