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OpenAI Agents SDK pricing (2026)

What OpenAI Agents SDK costs, summarised from its own pricing materials. Every figure below links to the vendor's source.

Pricing summary

The SDK is free and open source (MIT); you pay OpenAI (or the chosen provider's) API/token costs.

Vendor pricing page ↗ · accessed 2026-07-01

Hosting model
A self-deployed library (Python, with a TypeScript version too) that runs in your own process and infrastructure.source ↗
Open source (free to self-host)
Yessource ↗

The vendor's pricing text references a free tier or $0 option — see the exact wording above.

How OpenAI Agents SDK pricing compares

Peer platforms, each figure sourced or marked unverified — factual only, no ranking implied

PlatformPricing
OpenAI Agents SDK

SDK

The SDK is free and open source (MIT); you pay OpenAI (or the chosen provider's) API/token costs.source ↗
Claude Agent SDK

SDK

The SDK library is free (the Python repo is MIT), but use is governed by Anthropic's Commercial Terms of Service and you pay Claude API token costs (or via Bedrock/Vertex/Azure).source ↗
Vercel AI SDK

SDK

The SDK is free and open source (MIT); you pay the underlying model/token costs of whichever provider you route to. Vercel's hosting and AI Gateway are billed separately.source ↗
Cloudflare Agents

Framework

No separate charge for the SDK — you pay for underlying Workers and Durable Objects. Workers has a free tier (100k req/day) and a paid plan from $5/mo; Durable Objects bills requests, duration, and (from Jan 2026) SQLite storage.source ↗

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