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Google ADK 2.0 vs Wasp

Which one should you ship with? Here is the side-by-side panel verdict, pricing read, reviewer split, and community vote comparison.

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Developer Tools

Google ADK 2.0

Open-source agent framework: Python 2.0 beta + TypeScript 1.0 drop

Ship

75%

Panel ship

Community

Paid

Entry

Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) just hit two major milestones simultaneously: ADK Python 2.0 Beta with workflows and agent teams, and ADK TypeScript 1.0 reaching stable release. This open-source framework is Google's answer to LangChain and CrewAI — a code-first toolkit for building production-grade AI agents that are testable, versionable, and deployable anywhere. What separates ADK from the competition is its context management philosophy: it treats sessions, memory, tool outputs, and artifacts like source code, assembling structured context where "every token earns its place." The 2.0 beta introduces graph-based workflows and collaborative multi-agent systems, letting developers compose teams of specialized agents into complex hierarchies. It's model-agnostic despite being optimized for Gemini, and supports MCP natively. Deployment is a first-class citizen — native integrations with Cloud Run, GKE, and Vertex AI Agent Engine, plus Google's new Agents CLI for scaffolding, eval, and deploy in one command. With Apache 2.0 licensing and a bi-weekly release cadence, this is shaping up as the enterprise-grade foundation serious agent builders have been waiting for.

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Developer Tools

Wasp

Full-stack web framework in a DSL

Ship

100%

Panel ship

Community

Free

Entry

Wasp uses a simple DSL to define full-stack web apps — routes, auth, background jobs, email. Compiles to React + Node.js + Prisma. Configuration over code.

Decision
Google ADK 2.0
Wasp
Panel verdict
Ship · 3 ship / 1 skip
Ship · 3 ship / 0 skip
Community
No community votes yet
No community votes yet
Pricing
Open Source (Apache 2.0)
Free and open source
Best for
Open-source agent framework: Python 2.0 beta + TypeScript 1.0 drop
Full-stack web framework in a DSL
Category
Developer Tools
Developer Tools

Reviewer scorecard

Builder
80/100 · ship

Graph-based workflows in 2.0 Beta finally make multi-agent orchestration feel sane. The Agents CLI scaffolding saves an hour of boilerplate every new project. Apache 2.0 means no licensing headaches at scale.

80/100 · ship

Define auth, routes, and background jobs in a simple DSL. The generated React + Node.js code is clean and customizable.

Skeptic
45/100 · skip

It's 'model-agnostic' but the Cloud Run and Vertex AI integrations make it a Google Cloud lock-in play dressed in open-source clothing. LangGraph and CrewAI have a 2-year head start and larger ecosystems — ADK needs to prove itself outside Google's walls.

80/100 · ship

The DSL approach reduces boilerplate dramatically. Auth setup in 3 lines instead of hundreds is genuinely valuable.

Futurist
80/100 · ship

ADK being 'designed to be written by both humans and AI' is the key insight here — we're entering an era where agents build agents, and ADK is building the scaffolding for that recursion. TypeScript 1.0 stable means the frontend ecosystem is now fully in play.

80/100 · ship

Configuration-first full-stack frameworks will become more popular as AI code generation improves.

Creator
80/100 · ship

Visual debugging and evaluation frameworks finally make agent behavior legible — no more blind faith in what your agent actually did. This lowers the floor for non-ML engineers to build reliable agent pipelines.

No panel take

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