Swarms

The core of Swarms is an open-source multi-agent orchestration library, available in Python (pip install swarms) and in Rust (swarms-rs on crates.io), licensed Apache-2.0. On top of that sits Swarms Cloud, a hosted API (api.swarms.world) that runs the same agent/swarm primitives without self-hosting; a Marketplace (swarms.world) for buying and selling agents, prompts, tools and MCP servers; and AgentHQ, a new 'pixel-art agent office' product for hiring Claude and Codex agents, which is in pre-beta with a waitlist rather than a shipped product (https://www.swarms.ai/agenthq). A buyer evaluating 'Swarms' is really choosing among four different things with different maturity levels, and only the framework and the Cloud API have usage history behind them.

kyegomez/swarms on GitHub carries 7,226 stars and 1,031 forks, is Apache-2.0 licensed, and is not archived (checked via the GitHub API, 2026-10-03). Its most recent push and its most recent PyPI release (16.0.0) both landed on 2026-10-02 — the day before this listing was checked — and the project publishes a public changelog for every version, including a detailed post for v16 'Overclock' covering token accounting, a new DecisionModel, and tool-call performance work (https://www.swarms.ai/blog/swarms-v16-overclock-release). 264 issues are open, which is normal cadence for a project this size rather than a sign of neglect. For buyers worried about picking up an abandoned framework, the evidence points the other way.

Free costs $0/month: pay-per-use credits, 100 requests/minute, 1,200/day, 200K tokens per agent, and marketplace access. Pro is $19.99/month and adds global availability zones, 'exclusive' multi-agent architectures, accelerated hardware, API telemetry, priority queue access, and premium endpoints (batch processing, reasoning agents, advanced workflows) — these premium endpoints are explicitly unavailable on Free. Premium is $100/month (or $1,020/year) and is where SOC 2 compliance, 2,000 requests/minute, 100,000 requests/day, 2M tokens per agent, 500 agents per batch, and priority region routing live. Enterprise is custom-quoted and adds on-premise/VPC deployment, dedicated infrastructure, and a named solutions engineer. On top of the subscription, every tier pays usage-based token pricing — $6.50 per 1M input tokens and $18.50 per 1M output tokens, unified across every endpoint — plus $0.01 per agent, $0.25 per image, $0.10 per MCP call, $0.04 per Exa search, and $0.15 per web scrape. A 50% off-peak token discount applies automatically between 8 PM and 6 AM Pacific. Source: https://www.swarms.ai/pricing (checked 2026-10-03).

The homepage states the infrastructure is 'HIPAA compliant and ISO 27001 certified' (https://www.swarms.ai/), and the pricing page lists 'SOC 2 compliance' as a feature unlocked on the Premium tier and 'SOC 2 controls, audit logging' under Enterprise. None of these claims link to a certificate, an auditor's report, or even a dedicated trust/security page — swarms.ai/security returns a 404. That means a buyer who needs HIPAA, ISO 27001 or SOC 2 for their own compliance process has no public document to point to and would need to ask Swarms directly for the underlying attestation before relying on it.

The Marketplace lets anyone publish agents, prompts, tools and MCP servers and, per the vendor, keep 90% of each sale (https://www.swarms.ai/) — that revenue split, and the size or quality of the marketplace's catalog, is a vendor claim with no independent figures available. AgentHQ, described as letting someone 'hire' Claude and Codex agents into a visual office and watch their tool calls stream live, is in pre-beta and only open via a waitlist (https://www.swarms.ai/agenthq) — it is not a product you can use today.