AutoGen

license

MIT(code,via LICENSE-CODE)

docs

CC-BY-4.0

source

public

core features withheld

no

Code is MIT and fully open; the GitHub-surfaced CC-BY-4.0 is only the docs license. The whole framework is published with no enterprise directory and no paid tier.

• https://github.com/microsoft/autogen recorded 2026-08-13

  README states the split - documentation under LICENSE, "a license to any code in the repository under the MIT License, see the LICENSE-CODE file"; full framework source published, 60.4k stars, 9.1k forks, no enterprise directory or paid tier

• https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/LICENSE-CODE recorded 2026-08-13

  MIT License text, "Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation"

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/autogen/main/LICENSE-CODE recorded 2026-09-29

  The code license file is the MIT License, quoting "MIT License" and "Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation" with the standard grant of rights to use, copy, modify and sell.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/autogen/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-29

  The README grants "a license to any code in the repository under the" MIT License, with documentation under CC-BY 4.0. Searched the body for paid, license key, subscription and commercial: none; enterprise appears only in describing the successor, "Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) is the enterprise‑ready successor to AutoGen", not any AutoGen tier.

Adoption is measured by PyPI downloads of autogen-agentchat, the package Microsoft ships the framework through. Download volume is flat to declining as the project enters maintenance.

• https://pypistats.org/api/packages/autogen-agentchat/recent recorded 2026-10-07

  379,923 downloads in the trailing 30 days for autogen-agentchat (pypistats last_month)

AutoGen offers a strong multi-agent conversation model, with group chats, code execution and a no-code Studio. It has less durable-execution depth than LangGraph and is now in maintenance mode.

• https://github.com/microsoft/autogen recorded 2026-08-13

  multi-agent conversation orchestration, team patterns, tool use and code execution published in full; no benchmark figure

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/autogen/main/README.md recorded 2026-09-29

  The README describes "a framework for creating multi-agent AI applications", a "no-code GUI for building multi-agent applications" in Studio, and says AutoGen "is now in maintenance mode".