Cloudflare Agents vs Strands Agents
Both are Grade A and 0.3 points apart, so choose on what you weigh most. Strands Agents leads on adoption.
Build and deploy AI Agents on Cloudflare
Cloudflare Agents doesn't lead on any scored dimension in this pair.
Build an agent harness and control it end-to-end. Open-source SDK for production AI agents in Python & TypeScript - any model, any cloud.
Choose Strands Agents if adoption matters most.
- +1.0Adoption: 9.6M weekly downloads against 3.4M
Where they differ
2 dimensions identical: Identity 18.0 · Maintenance 19.9 · Full evidence table
An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Cloudflare Agents and Strands Agents, 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 | Strands Agentsstrands-agents/harness-sdk |
|---|---|---|
| HVTrust score | 90.2 | 90.5 |
| Evidence grade | A | A |
| Coverage grade | B | B |
| Overall rank | #26 | #20 |
| Rank in Agent Frameworks | #7 | #6 |
| GitHub stars | 5.9k | 9.0k |
| Last updated | 1d ago | 1d ago |
| Build provenance | Yes | Yes |
| OSSF Scorecard | 5.2 / 10 | 5.4 / 10 |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Downloads | 3.4M/wk | 9.6M/wk |
| Trust dimensions (points earned) | ||
| Safety / integrity / 25 | 19.0 | 19.2 |
| Identity & provenance / 18 | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Transparency / 17 | 12.9 | 13.1 |
| Maintenance / 20 | 19.9 | 19.9 |
| Adoption / 20 | 17.8 | 18.8 |
| Runtime capability surface (full matrix) | ||
| MCP server | Implemented | Implemented |
| External providers | 2 — Anthropic, OpenAI | 4 — Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Google Gemini, … |
| 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 →