Haystack vs OpenAI Agents SDK

Pick two tools from the same category to compare side-by-side.

	Haystack Open-source Python orchestration framework from deepset for production LLM and RAG applications.	OpenAI Agents SDK OpenAI's official SDK with handoffs, tools, guardrails, tracing.
Category	framework	framework
Vendor type	hybrid	commercial
Pricing	freemium	free
Strengths	+ 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	+ Deep integration with OpenAI features + Built-in handoff and guardrail primitives
Tradeoffs	− Pipeline/component model adds boilerplate for simple tasks − Historically RAG-centric, with agents added more recently	− OpenAI-first; cross-provider use is awkward
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