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Do AI agents pick LangChain?

How often agents choose LangChain when a developer needs ai sdk — measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

LangChain

#3 of 5 ai sdk
5%Pick Rate
95% CI 3%9%

When developers ask an AI agent for ai sdk, LangChain is picked 5% of the time — ranking #3 of 5 measured across Claude, GPT, Gemini.

Picked 5% Named, not picked 21% Never surfaced 74%

Beaten by OpenAI SDK (51%), Vercel AI SDK (14%).

Awareness

0 docs in FineWeb (10BT sample) · 273 URLs in Common Crawl

In the raw web crawl, but thin in the filtered corpus models actually train on — an awareness gap at the source.

AdoptionDid the pick convert to installs? Public Adoption = npm downloads of your packages. The proof half of the funnel.

40.6M installs / month ▲ 4% MoM

Installs are roughly flat month over month.

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About LangChain

A framework for building applications powered by large language models.

LangChain gives developers a standard interface for connecting LLMs to data sources, tools, vector stores, and external systems through interoperable, swappable components. It targets developers building AI-powered applications who need to work across multiple model providers or integrate retrieval, agents, and other LLM patterns without tightly coupling to any one vendor. The broader ecosystem includes LangGraph for agent orchestration and LangSmith for testing and monitoring LLM apps in production.

Where to start

Install the `langchain` package via npm, pnpm, or yarn, then follow the official getting-started documentation which covers environment setup and simple working examples. For agent-based or more complex workflows, the LangGraph.js documentation is the recommended next step.

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