Pipecat vs Haystack vs ChatNode vs OpenAI Agents SDK

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

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Pipecat
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Haystack
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ChatNode
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OAOpenAI Agents SDK
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Pipecat
pipecat.ai
Pipecat is an open-source Python framework for building voice and multimodal AI agents that talk in real time.
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Competitor 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 ChatNode
chatnode.ai
ChatNode builds AI customer service agents that handle support queries and execute actions through API calls
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Competitor OAOpenAI Agents SDK
openai.github.io
The OpenAI Agents SDK is a Python package for building agentic applications with very few abstractions.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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7.9Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▼ 56.0%
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6-month growth
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-13.9%
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Global rank web
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#1,061,283
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Avg. last 3 months
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12.2K
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Bounce rate lower is better
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39%
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Pages / visit
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4.9
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Visit duration
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2m 20s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 97% · ● Mail 3%
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PipecatHaystackChatNodeOpenAI Agents SDK
04.5K9K13.5K18KChatNode · 11.7KChatNode · 6.7KChatNode · 10KChatNode · 9.2KChatNode · 4.6KChatNode · 10.4KChatNode · 10.6KChatNode · 18KChatNode · 7.9K1K10K100KChatNode · 11.7KChatNode · 6.7KChatNode · 10KChatNode · 9.2KChatNode · 4.6KChatNode · 10.4KChatNode · 10.6KChatNode · 18KChatNode · 7.9KDec '25Jan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Starting price
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$35per month
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Plans
Open source Free
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Lite $35/moStandard $89/moScale $377/moEnterprise Custom
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Capabilities input → output
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VideoTextAudio
DocumentsCode
DocumentsWeb pagesText
CodeTextAudio
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TextAudio
Apps
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AudioApps
Skill level
Advanced
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Intermediate
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Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeVoice & SpeechAI Agent+2 more
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Developer Tools
Business & MarketingChatbots & CompanionsProductivity & OfficeAI Agent+2 more
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Agents
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Voice agents
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Voice
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