AutoGen gives you the orchestration code. Fasrad gives you an agent that's already running.

A framework you build versus an agent that's already on the clock

AutoGen is Microsoft's open-source framework for orchestrating conversations between multiple agents in Python. You define the agents, the group chat, the termination conditions, and the tool functions, then you run it on your own machine or your own cloud. For a research team prototyping multi-agent patterns, that control is the point — you can shape exactly how agents hand off, critique each other, and stop.

But the framework is the beginning of the work, not the end of it. AutoGen does not have an inbox, a calendar, a memory store, or a scheduler. The agent doesn't wake up on Tuesday at 8am unless you've stood up a process, a cron entry, and the credentials behind it. The orchestration is yours, and so is everything around it. Fasrad starts on the other side of that line: it already has a dedicated email address, a connected Google Calendar, a CRM, datastores, and scheduled tasks you describe in plain language. You don't assemble the agent — you tell it what to do.

Where the line falls:

• AutoGen wins when you need full programmatic control over multi-agent flow — custom handoff logic, your own model routing, agents that debate and revise each other inside one Python process.
• Fasrad is hosted and acts on its own: it reads and drafts email, books calendar slots, files records, and follows up on a cron without a server to run.
• AutoGen has no built-in inbox, calendar, CRM, or memory — you bring or build all of it. Fasrad ships with them connected.
• Fasrad runs on web, Telegram, email, and a public embed; an AutoGen app runs wherever you deployed it and however you exposed it.

Pick AutoGen if you're an engineer building bespoke multi-agent logic and you want the loop in your own code. Pick Fasrad if you want the outcome — mail worked, meetings booked, follow-ups sent on schedule — without writing or hosting any of it.

Related pages in this workflow

These pages cover the adjacent jobs buyers usually compare before choosing an AI agent.

• AI Personal Assistant — Your calendar, your follow-ups, your morning brief — run by an assistant with its own inbox, so you stop being your own secretary.
• AI Virtual Assistant — An assistant that does the work, not just the chat: its own inbox and calendar, your meetings booked, the replies you’d forget chased down.
• AI Booking Bot for Websites — Turns a website visitor into a booked meeting: it qualifies the request, offers real availability, books your calendar, and hands you the notes.
• AI Website Chatbot for Your Site — Closes the loop instead of dropping a transcript: it answers from your real pages, captures the lead, and books the meeting.
• AI Cold Outreach Agent — Personalizing cold email at volume is a full-time job; a blast just burns your domain. The agent does both — and books the replies — so you only show up for the meeting.
• AI Research Analyst — Hand it a question and a deadline, get a brief that shows its work — figures, links, and the page each number came from.
• Notion Alternative — Notion is brilliant storage; someone still has to dig through it. Fasrad reads every page and answers from the right doc — no tabs, no digging.
• Calendly Alternative That Reads & Replies — A booking link can’t read the email it’s pasted into. Fasrad can — it proposes the slot that fits, books it, and briefs you before you walk in.

Frequently asked questions

Is Fasrad a framework like AutoGen?

No. AutoGen is a Python library you import to orchestrate multi-agent conversations, then deploy and host yourself. Fasrad is a hosted product — you configure an agent in the UI and it runs on our infrastructure with its own email, calendar, and scheduler already connected.

Can I define custom multi-agent handoff logic in Fasrad?

Not the way AutoGen lets you. AutoGen gives you full programmatic control over how agents talk, critique, and terminate inside one process. Fasrad is a single configurable agent with tools and automations, not a graph of agents you script. If you need bespoke orchestration in code, AutoGen is the right tool — that's exactly what it's for.

Do I need to write any Python?

No. There's no code, no deployment, and nothing to keep running. Scheduled tasks and triggers are written in plain language, and the tools (inbox, calendar, CRM, datastores, web browse, REST calls) are built in.

How does the agent run on a schedule?

You describe the cadence in plain words — "every weekday at 8am" — and Fasrad's scheduler fires it. There are also event triggers for new_email, new_public_message, and lead_captured, plus proactive check-ins. With AutoGen you'd stand up a cron job and a process yourself.

Can Fasrad call my own APIs the way an AutoGen tool function would?

Yes. It can call any REST API with custom auth, do web search, and browse full pages including JS-heavy ones. The difference is you don't register and host those as Python tool functions — you point the agent at them and it uses them.

How much does it cost?

$49/month or $490/year — cancel anytime. It's hosted, so there's no server bill or ops time on top — versus AutoGen, where the framework is free but you pay for and maintain whatever you deploy it on.