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Agno vs PydanticAI

Both are Grade A and 1.7 points apart, so choose on what you weigh most. PydanticAI leads on supply-chain integrity and transparency.

A Agno 86.9

The self-driving agent platform

agno-agi/agno · #75 overall · #9 Agent Frameworks · coverage A (4/5)

Agno doesn't lead on any scored dimension in this pair.

A PydanticAI 88.6

How Python does AI. Agents, realtime voice, image generation, embeddings. Every model, every interface, typed end to end.

pydantic/pydantic-ai · #52 overall · #8 Agent Frameworks · coverage A (4/5)

Choose PydanticAI if supply-chain integrity and transparency matter most.

+1.8Safety / Integrity: 100% of recent commits signed, against 96%
+1.1Transparency: OSSF Scorecard 6.0 against 4.7

Where they differ

18.2

Safety / IntegrityPydanticAI +1.8

20.0

12.5

TransparencyPydanticAI +1.1

13.6

19.9

MaintenancePydanticAI +0.1

20.0

-0.4

Runtime calibrationAgno +1.3

-1.7

2 dimensions identical: Identity 18.0 · Adoption 18.7 · Full evidence table

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Agno and PydanticAI, two Agent Frameworks projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.

Full evidence

Signal	Agnoagno-agi/agno	PydanticAIpydantic/pydantic-ai
HVTrust score	86.9	88.6
Evidence grade	A	A
Coverage grade	A	A
Overall rank	#75	#52
Rank in Agent Frameworks	#9	#8
GitHub stars	43.0k	21.0k
Last updated	1d ago	today
Build provenance	Yes	Yes
OSSF Scorecard	4.7 / 10	6.0 / 10
License	Apache-2.0	MIT
Downloads	515k/wk	1.7M/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25	18.2	20.0
Identity & provenance / 18	18.0	18.0
Transparency / 17	12.5	13.6
Maintenance / 20	19.9	20.0
Adoption / 20	18.7	18.7
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server	Implemented	Declared
External providers	18 — Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Brave Search, …	9 — Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Cohere, …
Requires API keys	No	No
Plugin surface	—	plugins
Provenance drift	Match	Match

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How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption, scaled by an evidence-confidence factor. Grade bands: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Signals refresh daily. Full methodology v4.4 →