agno vs deepseek-harness
deepseek-harness is much bigger: 223.4k stars against 42.2k. Over the days we have tracked them agno moved +2.3% and deepseek-harness +109.9%, so deepseek-harness is growing faster right now.
They split the axes: agno leads on noise control and model freedom, deepseek-harness on 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
An end-to-end agent framework delivering an SDK, AgentOS runtime, and a management UI with built-in storage, observability, and human approval for running agent platforms.
- Stars
- 42.2k
- Tracked growth
- +2.3%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 13m ago
- Language
- Python
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Cost to run
- Free, self-hosted
A plugin-first agent harness where every component is a plugin, enabling highly composable agent workflows.
- Stars
- 223.4k
- Tracked growth
- +109.9%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 3d ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Free, self-hosted
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 | agno | deepseek-harness |
|---|---|---|
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 only | ●●●●● Diff only |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● Human approval | ●●●●● No controls |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Configurable SDK | ●●●●● Plugin-based |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Self-hostable | ●●●●● Self-hostable |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Multiple providers | ●●●●● Fixed provider only |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● Quickstart (Docker) | ●●●●● One-command start |
Which one to pick
Pick agno if…
Privacy-first — own and run your agent stack (AgentOS) with self-hosted storage, JWT RBAC, human approval, and observability.
- Noise control: Human approval (4/5 against 1/5)
- Model freedom: Multiple providers (3/5 against 1/5)
Pick deepseek-harness if…
Extensible plugin architecture — pick this when you want a locally runnable, highly modular agent harness you can extend with custom plugins.
- Setup ease: One-command start (5/5 against 3/5)
What people want from each one
agno-agi/agno
Hacker News: Show HN: Agno – A full-stack framework for building Multi-Agent Systems drew 76 points and 19 comments.
Questions people ask
Is agno better than deepseek-harness?
They split the axes: agno leads on noise control and model freedom, deepseek-harness on setup ease. agno is worth picking when privacy-first — own and run your agent stack (AgentOS) with self-hosted storage, JWT RBAC, human approval, and observability.
Which of agno and deepseek-harness keeps my code private?
agno: Self-hostable (4/5). deepseek-harness: Self-hostable (4/5).
What does each one cost to run?
agno: Free, self-hosted. deepseek-harness: Free, self-hosted.
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