Best Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 Alternatives in 2026

Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 scores 8.4/10 on our tests. Here are 3 alternatives worth considering in the AI Agent Orchestration space.

Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0

Microsoft's MIT-licensed open-source agent orchestration framework -- GA on 2026-04-03. Merges Semantic Kernel and AutoGen into a single SDK. Python and .NET. Native MCP and A2A protocol support. Connectors for Foundry, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, Claude, Bedrock, Gemini, Ollama

8.4

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Paperclip

+0.2 higher

Open-source orchestration layer that turns your AI agents into a company -- org charts, budgets, governance, and heartbeats for the whole team

Overall: 8.6/10Free tier availableFrom $0

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LangGraph

LangChain's graph-based framework for building stateful, controllable multi-agent and human-in-the-loop AI workflows

Overall: 8.3/10Free tier availableFrom $0

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CrewAI

Python framework for building multi-agent systems with role-based agents, tasks, and sequential or hierarchical processes

Overall: 8.0/10Free tier availableFrom $0

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Score Comparison

Tool	Ease of Use	Output Quality	Value	Features	Overall
Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0(current)	6.0	8.5	10.0	9.0	8.4
Paperclip	7.5	8.5	9.5	9.0	8.6
LangGraph	6.0	9.0	8.5	9.5	8.3
CrewAI	7.5	8.0	8.5	8.0	8.0

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