AgentScope

Alibaba DAMO Academy's open-source multi-agent platform with actor-based distribution.

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What is AgentScope?

AgentScope is an open-source multi-agent platform from Alibaba's DAMO Academy, built around message passing between agents. It offers a developer-friendly Python framework with an actor-based distribution model that scales from a local prototype to a distributed deployment without code changes. A drag-and-drop Workstation UI, automatic prompt tuning, and built-in fault tolerance round out the package. Canonical repo is under the ModelScope org.

Key features

  • Message-passing multi-agent framework
  • Actor-based local-to-distributed deployment
  • Visual drag-and-drop Workstation for building agents
  • Built-in fault tolerance and checkpointing
  • Automatic prompt tuning
  • Support for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Qwen, and local models

Pros

  • Strong high-concurrency and distributed story
  • Research-backed with a published paper
  • Visual builder lowers the barrier to entry

Cons

  • Documentation quality varies across versions
  • Smaller community than LangGraph or AutoGen

AgentScope at a glance

PricingOpen Source
CategoryCoding & Development
Platformsweb, linux, macos, windows
CompanyAlibaba DAMO Academy
Official websitegithub.com
multi-agentframeworkpythondistributedworkstation

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AgentScope FAQs

What is AgentScope?

AgentScope is an open-source multi-agent platform from Alibaba's DAMO Academy, built around message passing between agents. It offers a developer-friendly Python framework with an actor-based distribution model that scales from a local prototype to a distributed deployment without code changes. A drag-and-drop Workstation UI, automatic prompt tuning, and built-in fault tolerance round out the package. Canonical repo is under the ModelScope org.

What are the main features of AgentScope?

AgentScope offers Message-passing multi-agent framework, Actor-based local-to-distributed deployment, Visual drag-and-drop Workstation for building agents, Built-in fault tolerance and checkpointing, Automatic prompt tuning and Support for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Qwen, and local models.

How much does AgentScope cost?

AgentScope is open source, so the software itself is free to download, use and self-host. Your only costs are the infrastructure you run it on and any paid services you connect to it.

What are the pros and cons of AgentScope?

Strengths of AgentScope include Strong high-concurrency and distributed story; Research-backed with a published paper; Visual builder lowers the barrier to entry. On the downside, Documentation quality varies across versions; Smaller community than LangGraph or AutoGen.