LangChain vs Anthropic MCP

FeatureLangChainAnthropic MCP
CategoryAI Agent FrameworksAI Development
PricingFree + LangSmith paidFree (open standard)
GitHub Stars98,00045,000
PlatformsmacOS, Linux, WindowsmacOS, Linux, Windows
Features
  • ✓ Chain composition
  • ✓ RAG pipelines
  • ✓ Agent toolkits
  • ✓ Memory systems
  • ✓ Streaming
  • ✓ Multi-model
  • ✓ LangGraph
  • ✓ Universal tool protocol
  • ✓ Server/client architecture
  • ✓ Stdio and SSE transport
  • ✓ TypeScript + Python SDKs
  • ✓ Growing ecosystem
Tags
open-sourceframeworkpythonjavascriptragchains
open-sourceprotocoltoolsintegrationstandard