AutoGen is a library you code and host. Fasrad is a hosted agent that's already running, with inbox, calendar and cron, and no loop to write.
AutoGen is a library you wire up in Python and deploy. Fasrad is a hosted agent with an inbox, calendar and cron that does the work without you writing a loop.
AutoGen is Microsoft's open-source Python framework for orchestrating conversations between multiple agents. You define the agents, the group chat, the termination conditions and the tool functions, then run it on your own machine or your own cloud. A research team prototyping multi-agent patterns wants exactly that control. It can shape how agents hand off, critique each other and stop.
The framework is where the work starts. AutoGen has no inbox, calendar, memory store or scheduler. Your agent wakes up at 8am on Tuesday only after you've stood up a process, a cron entry and the credentials behind it. You own the orchestration and 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 tell it what to do.
Where the line falls:
Pick Fasrad if you want the outcome (mail worked, meetings booked, follow-ups sent on schedule) without writing or hosting any of it.
Buyers usually compare these adjacent jobs before choosing an AI agent.
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.
Not the way AutoGen lets you. Fasrad gives you one configurable agent that's already running, with tools and automations. It plans and executes multi-step work against your real accounts, and there's no graph to script or server to keep alive. AutoGen's programmatic control over how agents talk, critique and terminate inside one process you write and host isn't how Fasrad works.
No. There's no code, no deployment and nothing to keep running. You write scheduled tasks and triggers in plain language, and the tools (inbox, calendar, CRM, datastores, web browse, REST calls) are built in.
You describe the cadence in plain words, like "every weekday at 8am", and Fasrad's scheduler fires it. Event triggers cover new_email, new_public_message and lead_captured, and there are proactive check-ins too. With AutoGen you'd stand up a cron job and a process yourself.
Yes. It can call any REST API with custom auth, do web search and browse full pages, JS-heavy ones included. You point the agent at those APIs and it uses them, with no Python tool functions to register and host.
Start with a 7-day free trial. Full access, no card needed. Then $49 per month. It's hosted, so you pay no server bill and spend no ops time on top. AutoGen the framework is free, but you pay for and maintain whatever you deploy it on.