# Agno review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Open-source agent runtime with a hosted control plane Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Agno is a platform for building and running agents in your own cloud. It pairs an open-source SDK and a runtime called AgentOS, which serves agents as an API or an MCP server, with a control plane for chat, sessions, traces, memory, evaluations and approvals. The runtime is free; the live control plane is the paid part. - **Category:** AI Agents - **Made by:** Agno - **Website:** https://www.agno.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Pricey if you want a live control plane, at $150 a month for 1 connection and 3 seats. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Agno has a free plan, and paid plans start at $150 per month for the Pro control plane. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** $0 a month, unlimited usage and retention, and a control plane for a local AgentOS. - **Free trial:** Free trial of Pro offered; length not stated on the page. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | Control plane for a local AgentOS with chat, traces, memory, evaluations and templates, plus community support. | | Pro | $150 per month for 1 live AgentOS connection and 3 seats | Control plane for a live AgentOS, basic role-based access and email support. Extra seats $30, extra connections $95 a month. | | Enterprise | Custom | End-user management and audit logs, custom RBAC, Slack Connect, an SLA and security reviews. | Read from https://www.agno.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Agno before buying. ## Key features - **AgentOS runtime:** A runtime that serves agents as an API for your product and as an MCP server that ChatGPT and Claude can connect to. - **Control plane:** A web console for chat, sessions, traces, memory, knowledge, metrics, evaluations, approvals and a scheduler. - **Agents, teams and workflows:** The demo environment shows single agents, teams of agents and step-based workflows, such as an invoice flow with an approval gate. - **Runs in your own cloud:** The vendor says you own your data and compute, so it does not meter usage, storage or egress. - **Works with other frameworks:** The Free plan's control plane accepts agents built with the Agno SDK, LangGraph or Claude Code. ## Good for - Engineering teams that want agents running inside their own cloud - Developers who want an open-source runtime and pay only for the control plane - Teams that need approvals, traces and evaluations around production agents ## Worth knowing - The paid Pro plan covers one live AgentOS connection and three seats; more cost $95 and $30 a month each. - SAML SSO is a $300 a month add-on on Pro. - You run the runtime on your own infrastructure, so hosting and model costs are yours. - Governance features such as end-user audit logs and custom RBAC need Enterprise. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Agno gives you an open-source SDK and a runtime that runs in your own cloud, plus a control plane for chat, traces and approvals. The control plane for a live deployment is $150 a month for one connection and three seats. - **Value for money: D.** Pro is $150 a month, the start of the category's dearest tenth, for one live connection and three seats. The runtime is free but you host it. - **Free plan and trial: B.** The free plan has no usage cap and a control plane for a local AgentOS. Going live is the paid step. - **Features: B.** Runtime, agents, teams, workflows, traces, evals and approvals. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job. - **Ease of use: D.** No rating on record. You run the runtime on your own infrastructure and write code. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web control plane and API or MCP serving, with Slack, Discord, ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor links. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Agno's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI agents - Agno's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 81 of the 178 other AI agents we grade, and level with 41. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 144 of 178) and worst on value for money (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $150 a month, against a middle price of $25 for the category: 87 of the 98 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 36 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-agents ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Agno you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It costs $1,800 a year. Agno is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Slack, Discord and ChatGPT among them, and has an API. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Slack, Discord, ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, LangGraph, Cursor, Codex **Tags:** AI agents, Open source, Self-hostable, Public API ## Alternatives - [CrewAI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/crewai): Multi-agent platform to build, run and govern AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/agno-vs-crewai) - [LangGraph](https://toolgpa.com/tools/langgraph): Open-source framework for building controllable AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/agno-vs-langgraph) - [LlamaIndex](https://toolgpa.com/tools/llamaindex): Document parsing and extraction platform for AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/agno-vs-llamaindex) - [Pydantic AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pydantic-ai): Typed Python SDK for building AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/agno-vs-pydantic-ai) - [Mastra](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mastra): TypeScript framework for building and running AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/agno-vs-mastra) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.agno.com/pricing - https://www.agno.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/agno Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).