Claude Agent SDK vs Haystack

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	Claude Agent SDK Anthropic's official SDK for building production agents on Claude.	Haystack Open-source Python orchestration framework from deepset for production LLM and RAG applications.
Category	framework	framework
Vendor type	commercial	hybrid
Pricing	free	freemium
Strengths	+ First-class Claude features (prompt caching, extended thinking) + Designed around production agent patterns + Compatible with the Skills standard	+ Transparent, modular pipeline architecture + Strong, mature support for RAG and retrieval workflows + Broad ecosystem of model and document-store integrations + Production focus with a commercial platform option from deepset
Tradeoffs	− Claude-only (cross-provider needs a gateway like Portkey)	− Pipeline/component model adds boilerplate for simple tasks − Historically RAG-centric, with agents added more recently
Used in stacks	9	0