AI · pricing
AutoGen pricing
AutoGen publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the ai tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no pricing
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
AutoGen plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free | 4 | Entry tier |
Where AutoGen stops being free
Open Source, Free
- MIT and CC-BY-4.0 licenses
- Full framework access
- Community support
- Self-hosted deployment
No paid tier on record
AutoGen lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full AutoGen feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Multi-agent orchestration
- Message passing API
- AgentChat API
Integrations
- Extensions API
- MCP server support
Tools
- AutoGen Studio
Compatibility
- Cross-language support
Observability
- Observable agent networks
People bring AutoGen in for building multi-agent conversational systems, rapid prototyping of agent applications, research on agentic ai patterns and architectures, distributed agent networks across boundaries. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to AutoGen are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in AI
Too few ai tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutoGen (this page) | Free | Open source, no pricing | - | |
| Lindy | Free, then $29.99/month | Per-user subscription with shared credit pool | - | vs AutoGen |
| Gumloop | Free | Tiered subscription with usage credits | - | vs AutoGen |
| Vellum | Free, then $30/month | Freemium with paid plans and pay-as-you-go credits | - | vs AutoGen |
| LangGraph | Free | Open source and free, with optional managed platform | - | vs AutoGen |
| Writer | On request | quote | - | vs AutoGen |
| Resemble AI | Free, then $350/month | freemium | - | vs AutoGen |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the AutoGen badges page.
Before you pay for AutoGen
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
AutoGen runs on python, .net, and is published by Microsoft Research. The full record is on the AutoGen review, and the rest of the category is under best ai tools.
AutoGen pricing questions
- How much does AutoGen cost?
- AutoGen publishes a single tier, Open Source, at Free.
- Does AutoGen have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers mit and cc-by-4.0 licenses, full framework access, community support.
- Which ai tools can I use without paying?
- 7 of the 8 ai tools listed alongside AutoGen have a free tier: Lindy, Gumloop, Vellum, LangGraph, Resemble AI.
- What am I actually paying for with AutoGen?
- The record lists 8 features across 5 areas: core, integrations, tools, compatibility, observability. In practice it is brought in for building multi-agent conversational systems, rapid prototyping of agent applications, research on agentic ai patterns and architectures.
- Does AutoGen charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these AutoGen prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare AutoGen against before paying?
- The closest ai tools in this directory are Lindy, Gumloop, Vellum, LangGraph. Each has a side-by-side comparison with AutoGen covering price, platforms and features.