OpenAI Agents SDK vs Pydantic AI

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

	OpenAI Agents SDK OpenAI's official SDK with handoffs, tools, guardrails, tracing.	Pydantic AI Type-safe Python agent framework built by the Pydantic team around validated structured outputs.
Category	framework	framework
Vendor type	commercial	open source
Pricing	free	free
Strengths	+ Deep integration with OpenAI features + Built-in handoff and guardrail primitives	+ Strong type safety and validated structured outputs + Familiar, ergonomic API for Pydantic users + Model-agnostic with broad provider support + Native OpenTelemetry/Logfire observability
Tradeoffs	− OpenAI-first; cross-provider use is awkward	− Younger framework with a smaller ecosystem than incumbents − Fewer built-in high-level multi-agent orchestration abstractions − APIs still maturing
Used in stacks	3	0