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LangGraph

LangChain

Low-level orchestration framework from LangChain for building stateful, multi-actor agent applications. Unlike higher-level frameworks it exposes an explicit graph/state-machine model (nodes, edges, persistence, human-in-the-loop checkpoints), the production choice when you need fine-grained control over loops, branching, and durable resumable execution.

MIT core; commercial LangGraph Platform / LangSmith is the managed layer (open-core). ~35k stars, ~58M PyPI downloads/month (heavily transitive via LangChain).

Openness

4 high confidence
4.0
license
MIT(core)
commercial
LangGraph-Platform/LangSmith
source
public

MIT-licensed self-hostable core with a commercial managed deployment platform.

Adoption

5 high confidence
5.0

~58M PyPI downloads/month (directional - largely transitive via LangChain).

Capability

5 high confidence
5.0

Deepest durable-execution control among the orchestration peers.

Unchanged since 2026-06-17 (last edited, not re-checked)