Haystack vs LangChain vs LiveKit Agents vs Semantic Kernel

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Haystack
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LangChain
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LiveKit Agents
Competitor 3
Semantic Kernel
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Haystack
haystack.deepset.ai
Haystack is an open-source AI orchestration framework from deepset for building production-grade LLM applications and agents.
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Competitor LangChain
langchain.com
Framework for building with large language models
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Competitor LiveKit Agents
livekit.io
LiveKit Agents is an open source framework and cloud platform for building voice, video and physical AI agents and running them in production.
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Competitor Semantic Kernel
learn.microsoft.com
Semantic Kernel is a lightweight, open-source development kit from Microsoft for building AI agents and adding AI models to existing C#, Python or Java codebases.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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3.4Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▲ 0.7%
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6-month growth
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+21.0%
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Global rank web
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#13,384
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Avg. last 3 months
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3.3M
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Bounce rate lower is better
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42%
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Pages / visit
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6.2
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Visit duration
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5m 29s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 73% · ● Referral 24%
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Pricing
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Freemium
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Starting price
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$39per month · free tier available
$50per month · free tier available
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Plans
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Developer FreePlus $39/moEnterprise Custom/mo
Build FreeShip $50/moScale $500/moEnterprise Custom
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeDocuments
CodeText
AudioTextVideo
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Output
Apps
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AudioText
Apps
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
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Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Developer Tools
Business & MarketingDevelopment & CodeProductivity & OfficeVoice & Speech+4 more
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 3 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Agent creation
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Developer tools
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.