Agno and Hubzoid both run AI agents in Python on your own infrastructure. Agno (opens in a new tab) is a framework and runtime for engineers who write agent programs. Hubzoid is an open-source platform for internal AI agents: your team's knowledge, rules and tools in one Hub, used in chat, workflows and the assistants people already use.
In short. Choose Hubzoid when the people who know the process should keep the agent's knowledge and rules right, with per-person access, approvals and a team web app in the open-source product. Choose Agno when engineers will own a Python agent application end to end and want a complete runtime to build on.
Hubzoid and Agno at a glance
✓ yes · ◐ partly, or paid · ✗ no · ○ not documented
| Hubzoid | Agno | |
|---|---|---|
| Team controls in the open-source product | ✓ Apache 2.0, all of it | ◐ Role-based access is in paid control plane plans |
| Per-person tool permissions | ✓ Checked in code before a tool runs | ○ Not documented for end users |
| Process owners edit knowledge and rules | ✓ Plain files in the Hub | ◐ Knowledge bases, with agents written in Python |
| Team web app with sign-in | ✓ Chat, Inbox and Settings included | ◐ Hosted control plane, paid to manage a live deployment |
| Use your Claude Code login instead of an API key | ✓ On your laptop | ○ |
| Approval before a tool runs | ✓ | ✓ |
| Workflows that wait for a person | ✓ | ✓ |
| Slack | ✓ | ✓ |
| MCP server for your assistant | ✓ | ✓ |
| Traces, usage and cost | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-hosting | ✓ Laptop, Linux server or Docker | ✓ Templates for Docker and major clouds |
| You build in | Markdown and Python | Python |
| Price | Free, Apache 2.0 | Free libraries and runtime. Paid control plane for live deployments |
Sources: Agno's repository (opens in a new tab), pricing (opens in a new tab), approvals (opens in a new tab), interfaces (opens in a new tab), tracing (opens in a new tab), security (opens in a new tab) and MCP (opens in a new tab) pages, and Hubzoid's docs. Both products change often, so check the current pages before you decide.
Why teams choose Hubzoid
- The people who know the work keep it right. A Hub is a folder of readable files. A finance lead changes the duplicate-bill rule in one file, without an engineer.
- Team controls are open source. Per-person grants, approvals and the audit log are part of the Apache 2.0 product. Nothing to pay for to manage a live deployment.
- A team app from day one. Teammates sign in to web chat, approve actions in their Inbox and get reports in My schedules.
- Your assistant joins in. Claude Code connects over MCP as you, with the same knowledge and only the tools you may use.
Where Agno is stronger
- A complete Python runtime with memory, knowledge, learning stores, scheduling and tracing, plus deploy templates for many clouds.
- A large, active community and many examples.
One task, built two ways
A finance team wants an agent that flags duplicate bills.
In Agno, an engineer writes the agent in Python with instructions, knowledge and a ledger lookup tool, and serves it with AgentOS in the team's cloud.
In Hubzoid, the finance lead writes the duplicate rules as a short document, a coding assistant builds the ledger lookup tool, and an administrator grants it to the right people in Settings. Teammates run the check from chat as themselves, and a person reviews flagged bills before the ledger changes.
Other Agno alternatives
- LangGraph, for graph-shaped agent workflows with fine control over state.
- CrewAI, for teams of role-based agents working on one task.
- OpenAI Agents SDK, for a light agent loop with handoffs and guardrails.
- Microsoft Agent Framework, the successor to AutoGen.
Looking at Agno for a company brain? Agno's Scout navigates sources such as Slack and Drive. Hubzoid keeps the brain as a maintained Hub of files. See company brain.
Questions
Is Agno open source? Its libraries and runtime are Apache 2.0. Managing a live deployment from Agno's hosted control plane is a paid plan. Hubzoid is Apache 2.0 throughout, including its team web app and controls.
Do I need to write Python to use Hubzoid? Not for knowledge and rules, which are plain files. Tools and code workflows are Python, and a coding assistant can write them with you.
Can they work together? Possibly, through MCP. We have not tested this end to end, so check sign-in, allowed and denied tools, and renewal first.
Get started
Build a small Hub in about five minutes with the quickstart, or read the code on GitHub (opens in a new tab).