Key findings
- LangGraph's Python package recorded about 44.8 million downloads in the 30 days to October 12, 2026, against 12.4 million for openai-agents and 2.4 million for crewai.
- LangGraph shipped 38 stable Python releases in the year to October 12, 2026. The OpenAI Agents SDK shipped 87 and is still on 0.x, where its policy allows breaking changes in minor versions.
- On October 12, 2026, CrewAI's repository had the most GitHub stars of the three, 59,613, against 43,144 for LangGraph's Python repository.
- LangChain maintains LangGraph 1.0 for at least a year after 2.0 ships. LangGraph 0.4 receives fixes until December 2026.
LangGraph is installed about 3.6 times as often as the OpenAI Agents SDK and 18 times as often as CrewAI. No release note on its 1.x long-term-support line, through 1.2.18 on October 26, 2026, lists a breaking change, so pin a 1.x minor version and upgrade on your own schedule. Downloads count installations, including CI runs and installs pulled in by langchain, so they overstate the number of teams.
Installs
PyPI Stats counted 44,769,952 langgraph downloads in the 30 days to October 12, 2026, 12,449,784 for openai-agents, and 2,442,764 for crewai. LangGraph's count includes installs pulled in by the langchain package, whose create_agent runs on LangGraph, so it overstates how many teams chose LangGraph directly.
On npm, @langchain/langgraph recorded 3,795,517 downloads in the week to October 11, 2026, and @openai/agents 2,282,139. CrewAI has no JavaScript package.
| Package | Downloads |
|---|---|
| langgraph | 44.8 million |
| openai-agents | 12.4 million |
| crewai | 2.4 million |
PyPI Stats, recent downloads endpoint, checked Oct 12, 2026; counts include CI and dependency installs
Release pace
Between October 12, 2025 and October 12, 2026, PyPI lists 38 stable langgraph releases, 19 of them in the last six months, moving from 1.0.0 to 1.2.14 on October 6, 2026. Minor releases 1.1 and 1.2 came in March and May 2026. LangGraph.js runs its own line and reached 1.4.21 on October 7, 2026.
Over the same year crewai published 65 stable releases, moving from the 0.203 line to 1.15.27, and openai-agents published 87 across twenty minor versions, reaching 0.23.1. The Agents SDK's release policy uses minor versions for breaking changes while it stays on 0.x.
| Package | Releases | Latest |
|---|---|---|
| langgraph | 38 | 1.2.14 |
| crewai | 65 | 1.15.27 |
| openai-agents | 87 | 0.23.1 |
PyPI release history, checked Oct 12, 2026; pre-releases excluded
Attention and open work
On October 12, 2026, GitHub showed 43,144 stars for LangGraph's Python repository and 3,350 for LangGraph.js, 59,613 for CrewAI, and 29,988 for the OpenAI Agents SDK in Python. GitHub search counted 579 open issues on the LangGraph repository, 252 on CrewAI's, and 19 on the Agents SDK's. Each project closes and labels issues its own way, so open-issue counts say as much about triage as about code quality.
What the support policy commits to
LangChain designates LangGraph 1.0 a long-term-support release, developed until 2.0 and then given at least a year of security patches and critical fixes. Breaking changes come only in major releases, deprecated features keep working for at least one minor release, and major releases come at least six to twelve months apart. LangGraph 0.4 is in maintenance until December 2026.
Before October 2025, engineers reported breaks in minor and patch releases. Since 1.0, LangChain has kept the policy. GILD read the GitHub release notes for every 1.x release through 1.2.18 on October 26, 2026, and none lists a breaking change. LangGraph 1.1.0 (March 10, 2026) shipped a typed output format as an opt-in and left the default output unchanged. When a strict type check broke OpenTelemetry instrumentation, LangChain removed it in the 1.1.8 patch on April 17, 2026.
Methodology
Downloads come from PyPI Stats and the npm downloads API, and release counts from each package's PyPI release history with pre-releases excluded. Stars and open issue counts come from GitHub. GILD collected all of them on October 12, 2026. Support terms come from LangChain's release policy and the OpenAI Agents SDK release process page on the same date. GILD read the GitHub release notes for every LangGraph 1.x release on October 25, 2026. Download counts include automated and dependency installs, so they count installations and say nothing direct about teams or production use.
Products in this piece
Sources
- Public source
- 5
- Official documentation
- 12
- PyPI Stats: langgraph downloads, last 30 days (Oct 12, 2026)
- PyPI Stats: crewai downloads, last 30 days (Oct 12, 2026)
- PyPI Stats: openai-agents downloads, last 30 days (Oct 12, 2026)
- npm downloads API: @langchain/langgraph, week to Oct 11, 2026 (Oct 12, 2026)
- npm downloads API: @openai/agents, week to Oct 11, 2026 (Oct 12, 2026)
- langgraph on PyPI (release history)
- LangGraph releases on GitHub
- LangGraph on GitHub (MIT license, stars, issues)
- LangGraph.js on GitHub
- LangChain docs: Release policy (LangGraph LTS)
- LangGraph docs: What's new in LangGraph v1
- LangChain blog: LangChain and LangGraph reach v1.0 (Oct 22, 2025)
- LangGraph release 1.1.0 on GitHub: type-safe streaming and invoke (Mar 10, 2026)
- LangGraph release 1.1.8 on GitHub: fix for a type check that broke OpenTelemetry instrumentation (Apr 17, 2026)
- CrewAI on GitHub (MIT license)
- OpenAI Agents SDK on GitHub (MIT license)
- OpenAI Agents SDK docs: Release process (0.Y.Z versioning)