Cloudflare Agents vs PydanticAI
Both are Grade A and 1.6 points apart, so choose on what you weigh most. PydanticAI leads on supply-chain integrity and adoption, and rests on broader evidence. Note: Cloudflare Agents's evidence coverage is thinner (coverage B vs A) — its score rests on fewer independent signal types.
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Cloudflare Agents doesn't lead on any scored dimension in this pair.
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Choose PydanticAI if supply-chain integrity and adoption matter most.
- +1.0Safety / Integrity: OSSF Scorecard 6.0 against 5.2
- +0.9Adoption: 21k GitHub stars against 5.9k
- +0.7Transparency: OSSF Scorecard 6.0 against 5.2
- A vs BEvidence coverage: 4 of 5 independent signal types, against 3
Where they differ
1 dimension identical: Identity 18.0 · Full evidence table
An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Cloudflare Agents 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 | Cloudflare Agentscloudflare/agents | PydanticAIpydantic/pydantic-ai |
|---|---|---|
| HVTrust score | 90.2 | 88.6 |
| Evidence grade | A | A |
| Coverage grade | B | A |
| Overall rank | #26 | #52 |
| Rank in Agent Frameworks | #7 | #8 |
| GitHub stars | 5.9k | 21.0k |
| Last updated | 1d ago | today |
| Build provenance | Yes | Yes |
| OSSF Scorecard | 5.2 / 10 | 6.0 / 10 |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Downloads | 3.4M/wk | 1.7M/wk |
| Trust dimensions (points earned) | ||
| Safety / integrity / 25 | 19.0 | 20.0 |
| Identity & provenance / 18 | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Transparency / 17 | 12.9 | 13.6 |
| Maintenance / 20 | 19.9 | 20.0 |
| Adoption / 20 | 17.8 | 18.7 |
| Runtime capability surface (full matrix) | ||
| MCP server | Implemented | Declared |
| External providers | 2 — Anthropic, OpenAI | 9 — Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Cohere, … |
| Requires API keys | No | No |
| Plugin surface | extensions | plugins |
| Provenance drift | Match | Match |
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 →