What are the best alternatives to spacy?

The top alternatives to spacy are OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Pipecat, ranked by real usage data on Unfragile.

Are there free alternatives to spacy?

Yes, 19 free alternatives to spacy exist, including OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK, Pipecat.

20 alternatives ranked by real usage data. spacy scores 24/100 — 20 tools score higher.

Originalspacy

Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python

20 alternatives

19 free options

20 score higher

OpenAI's official agent framework — agents, handoffs, guardrails, sessions, built-in tracing.