Google ADK vs Strands Agents

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	Google ADK Open-source, code-first toolkit from Google for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents.	Strands Agents Open-source, model-driven SDK from AWS for building AI agents in a few lines of code.
Category	framework	framework
Vendor type	hybrid	hybrid
Pricing	freemium	freemium
Strengths	+ Code-first design with explicit control over orchestration and tools + Native multi-agent composition and delegation + Built-in evaluation and local dev CLI (adk run, adk web) + Backed by Google with paths to managed Vertex AI deployment	+ Minimal, model-driven API that reduces orchestration boilerplate + Provider- and cloud-agnostic model support + Built-in observability via OpenTelemetry + Production deployment patterns for common AWS runtimes
Tradeoffs	− Newer framework with a smaller community than longer-established options − Strongest ergonomics within the Google/Gemini and Cloud ecosystem	− Model-driven control can be less predictable than explicit graph flows − Smoothest experience and deployment docs skew toward AWS infrastructure
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