Agno
Verified Oct 2, 2026 ActiveOpen-source Python SDK and self-hosted runtime for building agents, teams and workflows, with a web control plane to monitor them.
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $150/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
The SDK and the local control plane are free with no usage metering. Pro is $150 a month and adds a control plane for one live AgentOS connection and 3 seats, with extra seats at $30 a month, extra live connections at $95 and SAML SSO at $300. Enterprise is custom.
Use tool ↗About Agno
Agno is a Python framework with three building blocks, agents, teams and workflows, plus a library of toolkits, memory, knowledge, guardrails and evaluation. AgentOS, its runtime, serves the agents over REST, MCP or chat interfaces such as Slack, and runs in the customer's own cloud, so data stays there. A hosted control plane adds chat, session history, traces, scheduling, approvals and a no-code studio. The SDK is Apache-2.0 licensed. Agno was called Phidata until January 2025, when the project was renamed and refocused on agents.
- Platforms
- Web · API
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 2, 2026
Verified sources
- Product description, AgentOS runtime, control plane features and customersagno.com ↗
- Free, Pro and Enterprise plans with seat, connection and SSO add-on pricesagno.com ↗
- Rename from Phidata to Agno announced by the founder in January 2025agno.com ↗
- Open-source repository under Apache-2.0, created 2022github.com ↗
Is Agno legit?
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- Last checked
- Oct 2, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2022The vendor's own material, read by us
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- AgnoOur research, card verified Oct 2, 2026
Pros & cons of Agno
Agno suits Python developers who want a compact framework and a runtime they host themselves, rather than a managed agent service. The free tier is unusually complete, since the local control plane is unlimited, and you pay only when you want a live control plane with team access. Teams that prefer graph-style orchestration or a larger plugin ecosystem may find other frameworks more familiar.
Pros
- Apache-2.0 SDK with agents, teams, workflows and 100+ toolkits
- Runtime serves agents over REST, MCP and chat interfaces and runs in your own cloud
- Free plan has no usage caps or retention limits on the local control plane
- Large open-source community, with over 40,000 GitHub stars
Cons
- The live control plane starts at $150 a month before add-ons
- Heavy rebranding history means older tutorials show Phidata imports and APIs
- SAML SSO is a $300 a month add-on and custom RBAC is Enterprise only
Best for
- Python developers building product copilots, research or support agents they will host themselves
- Teams that want built-in memory, knowledge, tracing and approvals without stitching tools together
- Companies that need agent data to stay in their own cloud
Not for
- Non-developers who want a finished no-code agent app
- Teams that need a published self-hosted control plane without an Enterprise contract
Watch out: Phidata and Agno are the same project; code and posts from before January 2025 use the old package and API names, and the 2.0 release added AgentOS, so examples can differ from the current docs.
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