Alternatives to Google ADK
8 Orchestration tools you could use instead. Each one shares a way to connect with Google ADK and overlaps on what it does. Strongest match first.
Alternatives

Microsoft Agent Framework
API · CLIBuilds and orchestrates multi-agent apps with a .NET and Python SDK. The successor unifying Semantic Kernel and AutoGen…
VerifiedOfficialby Microsoft · Orchestration · 3 skills · API KeyWhy Both offer API and CLI. In common: orchestration, framework, multi-agent.

LangGraph
API · CLIGraph-based agent orchestration with stateful multi-actor workflows. Deploy agents as REST APIs via LangGraph Platform.…
VerifiedOfficialby LangChain AI · Infrastructure & Ops, Orchestration · 3 skills · API KeyWhy Both offer API and CLI. In common: orchestration, deployment, multi-agent.

CrewAI
API · MCP · CLIMulti-agent orchestration framework for building teams of AI agents that collaborate, delegate, and solve complex tasks…
Verifiedby CrewAI · Infrastructure & Ops, Code & DevTools · API KeyWhy Both offer API and CLI. In common: orchestration, framework, multi-agent.

KaibanJS
API · CLIBuilds multi-agent systems in JavaScript with role-based agents, tasks, and teams that run on a Kanban-style board, for…
Verifiedby Kaiban · Orchestration · 4 skills · API KeyWhy Both offer API and CLI. In common: orchestration, framework, multi-agent.

Spring AI Alibaba
API · MCPBuilds agentic, workflow and multi-agent applications in Java and Spring Boot on a graph runtime for stateful agents…
VerifiedOfficialby Alibaba · Orchestration, Code & DevTools · 5 skills · API KeyWhy Both offer API. In common: java, multi-agent.

AG2
APIBuilds multi-agent systems in Python with async agents, @tool functions, human-in-the-loop pauses, and a…
Verifiedby AG2 AI · Orchestration, Code & DevTools · 5 skills · No authWhy Both offer API. In common: framework, multi-agent, python.

AgentScope
CLI · APIBuilds multi-agent applications with a Python framework focused on transparency, observability, and tracing. Includes a…
VerifiedOfficialby Alibaba · Orchestration · 3 skills · API KeyWhy Both offer CLI and API. In common: framework, multi-agent, python.

fast-agent
CLI · API · MCPDefine and run multi-agent workflows in Python with first-class MCP support — chains, routers, parallel fan-out…
Verifiedby evalstate · Orchestration · 3 skills · API KeyWhy Both offer CLI and API. In common: framework, multi-agent, python.