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Agent Frameworks

Agent frameworks are a three-brand race at the top of AI discovery. LangChain surfaces in 91% of buyer queries across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. AutoGen and CrewAI each appear in 80% of discovery prompts, both visible on all four engines (though CrewAI misses one). LlamaIndex holds the fourth slot at 74%, also ubiquitous across engines. The category is fragmented below that tier—base.ai and handoff.ai split visibility across three or four engines but surface in fewer than 30% of queries. No evaluation-stage data exists yet, so we cannot report who wins head-to-head comparisons. This is a consolidated discovery category: three brands capture nearly all AI attention, with a long tail of niche players fighting for the remaining eyeballs.

35 discovery queries · refreshed May 1, 2026

Discovery stage

The shortlist

Across 35 buyer-style "Agent Frameworks" queries

LangChain surfaces in 91% of buyer queries about agent frameworks and appears across every AI engine we audit. AutoGen and CrewAI each land in 80% of discovery prompts—AutoGen shows up on all four engines, while CrewAI misses one (Perplexity). LlamaIndex follows at 74%, also visible across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Below that tier, base.ai and handoff.ai each surface in fewer than 30% of queries; base.ai reaches all four engines but with thin mention volume, while handoff.ai appears on three.

0%15%30%46%61%Coverage — share of discovery prompts where the brand surfaces48%60%72%85%97%Engine diversity

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X = coverage across discovery prompts · Y = engine diversity · Bubble size = total mentions
Tracked acrossChatGPT,Gemini,Claude

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Signal by intent

By topic

Top 5 most-cited brands per intent cluster. Brands with zero citations in a topic are not shown.

1LangChain
9/10
2LlamaIndex
8/10
3Handoff
8/10
4AutoGen
7/10
5Base
7/10
1LangChain
7/7
2CrewAI
6/7
3AutoGen
6/7
4Uipath
5/7
5LlamaIndex
4/7
1LangChain
6/6
2AutoGen
6/6
3CrewAI
6/6
4LlamaIndex
5/6
5Microsoft
4/6
1LangChain
6/6
2AutoGen
6/6
3CrewAI
6/6
4LlamaIndex
5/6
5Swarm
5/6
1LangChain
6/6
2LlamaIndex
6/6
3CrewAI
6/6
4AutoGen
6/6
5Base
1/6
1LangChain
5/6
2LlamaIndex
4/6
3AutoGen
4/6
4CrewAI
4/6
5Microsoft
3/6
1LangChain
6/6
2AutoGen
5/6
3CrewAI
5/6
4LlamaIndex
3/6
5Handoff
3/6
1LangChain
5/5
2Handoff
5/5
3LlamaIndex
4/5
4Base
3/5
5AutoGen
3/5
≥50% cited
25–49%
<25%
Topics are discovery-stage prompt clusters · agent-frameworks

Citation sources

Where AI pulls citations from

1000 citations captured across Agent Frameworks prompt runs.

Vendor pages

286

Product, help, and marketing pages from tracked vendors

Independent sources

308

Reviews, encyclopedias, forums, press — not vendor-owned

Buyer questions

What AI cites for top Agent Frameworks questions

Every query in this category is top-of-funnel exploration. Buyers ask AI for the best agent frameworks by use case, persona, or technical requirement—'what tools do financial analysts use for developing predictive agent frameworks?', 'as a technical lead, what's the best agent framework for integrating with existing systems?', 'which agent frameworks help in predictive modeling?' No head-to-head comparisons, pricing questions, or trust signals appear in the query mix yet.

Discovery

Buyers exploring the category

Evaluation

Buyers comparing options

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