Alternatives to Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) and 3 alternative tools evaluated on the Tekai technology radar.
Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)
SubjectGoogle's official code-first Python framework for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents, optimized for Gemini but model-agnostic via LiteLLM.
Alternatives
LangGraph
A graph-based runtime for building stateful, multi-step AI agent workflows with persistence, checkpointing, and human-in-the-loop capabilities.
ADK-Rust
A community-built Rust framework for constructing LLM-powered AI agents with multi-provider support, inspired by Google's ADK but not affiliated with Google.
Google Agents CLI
Google's open-source CLI wrapping the Agent Development Kit (ADK) to automate the full AI agent development lifecycle — scaffolding, evaluation, and deployment to Cloud Run, Agent Runtime, or GKE — from a single command interface.
Comparison Summary
| Tool | Radar | Type | License |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) | assess | open-source | Apache-2.0 |
| LangGraph | trial | open-source | MIT |
| ADK-Rust | assess | open-source | Apache-2.0 |
| Google Agents CLI | assess | open-source | Apache-2.0 |