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Claude Agent SDKvsLangGraph

Anthropic's official agent SDK versus Graph-based stateful agent orchestration

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Choose Claude Agent SDK when…

  • •You are building Claude-first production agents
  • •You want native MCP and sub-agent primitives
  • •You want a first-party Anthropic SDK with prompt caching

Choose LangGraph when…

  • •You need stateful, graph-based agent control flow
  • •Complex branching or retry logic is required
  • •You're building production agents that need observability

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Claude Agent SDK
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Agent Frameworks
Agent Frameworks
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Free Tier
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OSS: Free
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Claude Agent SDK

Anthropic's first-party agent SDK for building production agents on top of Claude. Native MCP support, sub-agents, tool use, and prompt caching out of the box. Routinely benchmarked alongside Strands, LangGraph, and the OpenAI Agents SDK in 2026 framework comparisons.

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LangGraph

Build stateful multi-actor applications as directed graphs. Part of the LangChain ecosystem. Strong for complex agentic workflows.

Website ↗GitHub ↗

Shared Connections2 tools both integrate with

OpenAI Agents SDKMicrosoft Agent Framework

Only Claude Agent SDK (3)

LangGraphAnthropic APIMCP SDK (Python)

Only LangGraph (28)

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