SupersededDeveloperOpen Source, MIT
OpenAI Swarm
Educational framework (superseded)
Swarm was a lightweight, experimental framework from OpenAI that demonstrated handoffs between agents. OpenAI has replaced Swarm with the OpenAI Agents SDK, which it explicitly describes as the production-ready evolution. Today Swarm is only useful for studying the concepts.
Status notice
OpenAI Swarm has been superseded
OpenAI recommends the OpenAI Agents SDK for all use cases.
Successor: OpenAI Agents SDK
This system is no longer included in our recommendations.
Good fit if
Focus: Learning the concepts; use the OpenAI Agents SDK for projects
- your project is about Learning or Simple multi-agent examples
- your team is just getting started (skill level: Beginner to Intermediate)
- you want to get started quickly (learning curve: flat)
Key figures
- Usable without developers
- 3/5
- Scalability
- 3/5
- Integrations
- 2/5
- Versioning
- 1/5
- Observability
- 1/5
Editorial rating on a scale from 1 to 5. Methodology
Fact sheet
- Category
- Developer
- Type
- Educational framework (superseded)
- Licence
- Open Source (MIT)
- Pricing
- Open SourceOpen source and free (MIT), no further development
- Deployment
- Self-Hosted
- Models
- OpenAI
- RAG
- No
- Multi-Agent
- Yes
- SSO, roles (RBAC)
- SSO no, RBAC no
- GitHub stars
- 22,000
Key features
- Lightweight
- Agent handoffs
- Minimal abstraction
- Experimental
Typical use cases
- Learning
- Simple multi-agent examples
Implementation
Get OpenAI Swarm implemented
Free for you. Partners only pay for requests they accept.
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