# Swarms > Swarms is the multi-agent AI orchestration platform: an open-source Python framework, a hosted API with 15+ swarm architectures, an open marketplace for agents and prompts, and a free academy that teaches the entire stack. This site (swarms.ai) is the main company site; the marketplace runs at swarms.world, the API at api.swarms.world, and API docs at docs.swarms.ai. ## Main Pages - [Products](https://www.swarms.ai/products): The complete multi-agent stack: Swarms Python, Swarms API, Swarms Marketplace, Swarms RS, Swarms Chat, and enterprise deployments. - [Swarms Framework](https://www.swarms.ai/framework): The production-grade Python framework for multi-agent orchestration. - [Swarms API](https://www.swarms.ai/api): Hosted multi-agent orchestration with 1,000+ models and 15+ swarm architectures behind one endpoint. - [Pricing](https://www.swarms.ai/pricing): Plans and pricing for the Swarms platform. - [Installation](https://www.swarms.ai/installation): Install the Swarms framework and set up your environment. - [Open Source](https://www.swarms.ai/open-source): The open-source repositories behind the Swarms ecosystem. - [Research](https://www.swarms.ai/research): Research on multi-agent collaboration and swarm intelligence. - [Mobile App](https://www.swarms.ai/mobile): Swarms for iOS and Android. - [Hiring](https://www.swarms.ai/hiring): Open roles at Swarms. ## Swarms Academy - [Swarms Academy](https://www.swarms.ai/academy): Free courses for the multi-agent stack, from your first AI agent to production swarms. - [The Swarms API Course](https://www.swarms.ai/academy/swarms-api): Free four-part multi-agent course with 31 lessons, 12 live API trials, checkpoint projects, and graded quizzes. - [Part 1: Foundations: Your First Agent](https://www.swarms.ai/academy/swarms-api/foundations): Set up your environment and run your first agent completion. - [Part 2: Single-Agent Capabilities](https://www.swarms.ai/academy/swarms-api/agent-capabilities): Memory, streaming, structured outputs, tools, MCP, and autonomy. - [Part 3: Multi-Agent Orchestration](https://www.swarms.ai/academy/swarms-api/multi-agent-orchestration): Compose agents into swarms with the right architecture for the job. - [Part 4: Production: Scale, Cost, and Operations](https://www.swarms.ai/academy/swarms-api/production): Batch execution, resilience, cost control, and observability. ## Blog Every post is also available as raw markdown at /blog//markdown (append /markdown to the post URL). Chinese translations live under /zh/blog/. - [Introducing the Auto Agent Builder: Generate a Complete Agent Team From a Single Task](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/introducing-auto-agent-builder): The Auto Agent Builder turns a one-line task into a full roster of ready-to-run agent configurations, each with its own name, system prompt, and model. Here is how it works, how to use the page and the API, and how to take a generated roster straight into production. (中文: available) - [Introducing the MCP Portal: Discover, Publish, and Monetize MCP Servers on the Swarms Marketplace](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/mcp-portal-swarms-marketplace): The Swarms Marketplace now has a dedicated MCP Portal for Model Context Protocol servers. Browse the most popular community-built MCPs, connect tools like Firecrawl, DeepWiki, and Exa to your AI agents, and publish your own MCP server with free or paid access. (中文: available) - [The Vaulted Tokenized Agents Competition Is Live: $2,000 in SOL Over Two Weeks](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/vaulted-tokenized-agents-competition): The next Swarms Marketplace competition is here. Launch an AI agent with Vault Mode enabled before August 19 and compete for a $2,000 SOL prize pool: $1,000 for first, $700 for second, $300 for third, ranked by real on-chain trading volume. (中文: available) - [The First Frenzy Competition Results, and the Vaulted Tokenized Agents Competition](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/frenzy-competition-results-vault-mode-competition): The first Swarms Frenzy Competition closed with 23+ agent launches and over $250,000 in trading volume. Here are the winners, how prizes are paid, and the next competition: two weeks of Vault Mode launches competing for $2,000 in SOL. (中文: available) - [Swarms Cloud Changelog: July 14 to August 3](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/swarms-cloud-changelog-july-august): A week by week, day by day log of everything that shipped on Swarms Cloud over the last three weeks: live swarm architecture pages fetched straight from the API, a public pricing page, a session persistence fix, a security hardening pass, saved flows in the Workflow Builder, a rebuilt Token Usage date range, and a footer connection check. (中文: available) - [Swarms Weekly Ecosystem Update [July 27 - August 1]: Swarms v14 'Zena', Agent Competitions, and the API Examples Suite](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/swarms-weekly-ecosystem-update-july-27-aug-1): This week across the Swarms ecosystem: Swarms v14 'Zena' ships AutoAgentBuilder, a unified MCP manager, and a faster GraphWorkflow; the Marketplace launches recurring Agent Competitions; a new open-source repository collects 100+ runnable Swarms API examples; and two new guides cover GraphWorkflow versus LangGraph and building agents with Kimi K3. (中文: available) - [Swarms v14 'Zena': AutoAgentBuilder, a Unified MCP Manager, and a Faster GraphWorkflow](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/swarms-v14-zena-release): A complete technical walkthrough of Swarms v14, code-named Zena. AutoAgentBuilder turns a plain-English task into a working agent roster, a unified MCP manager brings OAuth and multi-server tool discovery, and GraphWorkflow now runs on native rustworkx. Plus three new multi-agent architectures, sandboxed computer-use tools, distributed tracing, and a security pass covering SSRF and token storage. Every feature, improvement, and bug fix since June 12, with runnable code. (中文: available) - [Ship AI Agents Faster with the Swarms API Examples Suite](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/swarms-api-examples-suite): Our new open-source repository collects 100+ runnable examples for the Swarms API, covering single agents, coordinated swarms, every orchestration pattern, model integrations across GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and more, plus streaming, vision, tools, and real industry use cases. (中文: available) - [Introducing Agent Competitions: Build, Launch, and Compete for Real Prizes](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/agent-competitions-swarms-marketplace): Swarms now runs recurring competitions for agent builders. The first one, the Frenzy Volume Championship, pays $1,000 in SOL to the three agents with the most trading volume this week. Entry is automatic, the leaderboard is live, and a new competition follows every week. (中文: available) - [Swarms GraphWorkflow vs LangGraph: A Simpler, Faster Way to Build Agent Graphs](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/swarms-graphworkflow-vs-langgraph): A hands-on comparison of Swarms GraphWorkflow and LangGraph for building directed-acyclic-graph agent pipelines. Same task, both frameworks, real code, showing why Swarms is easier to use, parallel by default, and faster to ship. (中文: available) - [How to Get Started with Kimi K3 in Swarms: A Step-by-Step Tutorial](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/getting-started-kimi-k3-swarms): A beginner-friendly guide to building AI agents with Moonshot's Kimi K3 model in the Swarms framework. Install with uv, run a single agent, then orchestrate a multi-agent GroupChat of Kimi agents in minutes. (中文: available) - [Swarms Weekly Ecosystem Update [July 21-26]: The Frenzy Hub, a New Marketplace Home Screen, and Gemini 3.6 Flash on Swarms Cloud](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/swarms-weekly-ecosystem-update-july-21-26): This week across the Swarms ecosystem: the Frenzy Hub brings live market data for every tokenized agent into one page, the Marketplace ships a new home screen, a changelog documents close to 200 Marketplace updates in seven weeks, and Gemini 3.6 Flash arrives on Swarms Cloud with a full developer guide. (中文: available) - [The Frenzy Hub: A Live Dashboard for Every Agent Token on Swarms](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/frenzy-hub-live-agent-token-dashboard): Swarms now has a dedicated home for Frenzy Mode agent tokens: live market caps that re-quote every 15 seconds, a creator leaderboard, a filterable screener across every frenzy launch, and a launch panel that carries your settings straight into publishing. (中文: available) - [Who We Are: Swarms Corporation and the Mission to Build Collective Superintelligence](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/who-is-swarms-corporation): Swarms Corporation exists to build Collective Superintelligence: we research multi-agent systems and deploy them into the real economy. This is who we are, what we build, and why we believe the future of intelligence is a network of agents, not a single mind. (中文: available) - [Swarms Marketplace Changelog June 1st - July 21: Fiat Payments, Upvotes, and More](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/swarms-marketplace-changelog-june-july): A day by day log of everything that shipped on the Swarms Marketplace from June through July: marketplace bundles, an upvote system, card payments through Stripe, natural language search, faster pages, unique avatars, and dozens of fixes, each written in plain language so you know what changed and what it means for you. (中文: available) - [Building Agents on Swarms with Gemini 3.6 Flash: A Developer Guide](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/swarms-gemini-3-6-flash): Google's new Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite models are available on the Swarms API. This step-by-step guide shows developers how to get an API key, run a single agent, and orchestrate a multi-agent swarm using the new Flash series, with full Python and curl examples. (中文: available) - [Swarms Weekly Recap [July 13-20]: Fiat Payments on Swarms Marketplace, 7,000 GitHub Stars, Swarms Academy](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/swarms-weekly-roundup-july-2026): A roundup of what shipped across the Swarms ecosystem this week: the launch of Swarms Academy, 7,000 GitHub stars, live fiat payments on the Marketplace, a two-month Swarms Cloud changelog, and a founders keynote on the autonomous economy. (中文: available) - [The Micro Agents Running the Swarms Marketplace](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/specialized-micro-agents-marketplace): Tags, tickers, images, summaries, search, and support on the Swarms Marketplace are now handled by small specialized agents that do one job each. Here is every one of them, how they compose, and why the marketplace gets easier to use every week. (中文: available) - [Vault Mode: How to Turn a Tokenized Agent Into a Holder-Gated Product](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/vault-mode-tokenized-agents): A deep dive into Vault Mode on the Swarms Marketplace: exactly how the holder gate works end to end, how it interacts with pricing, how to launch a vaulted agent or prompt, and why creators use it to turn usage demand into token buy pressure. (中文: available) - [Every User Now Gets a Unique Agent Avatar](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/unique-agent-avatars): Users who haven't uploaded a profile picture no longer get a gray circle or a plain initial. Swarms now generates a unique, deterministic agent avatar for every one of them, computed instantly in the browser with zero network requests. (中文: available) - [Tokenized Agents: What They Are, How to Launch One, and How Creators Earn Ongoing Revenue](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/tokenized-agents-launch-revenue): A complete guide to tokenizing an AI agent or prompt on the Swarms Marketplace: how the Solana bonding curve works, the exact fee split between creator and platform, Frenzy Mode, Vault Mode, and how to launch your first tokenized agent. (中文: available) - [How to Sell Your Agents and Prompts on the Swarms Marketplace: A Step-by-Step Guide to Stripe and Crypto Payouts](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/how-to-sell-agents-prompts-stripe-crypto): A practical, step-by-step guide to selling AI agents, prompts, and tools on the Swarms Marketplace. Set up Stripe seller payouts, price your listing, choose a payment rail, and understand exactly how fiat and crypto payouts work. (中文: available) - [How to Find Agents, Prompts, Tools, and Bundles on the Swarms Registry](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/how-to-find-agents-registry-page): A practical walkthrough of the Swarms Registry page: the search bar, AI auto-search, every filter, sort order, grid vs. table view, and the refresh button, so you can find the right agent or prompt in seconds. (中文: available) - [Frenzy Mode: How to Launch a Tokenized Agent With 2x Creator Fees](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/frenzy-mode-tokenized-agents): A focused deep dive into Frenzy Mode on the Swarms Marketplace: the exact fee mechanics, how Frenzy-mode tokens show up in the registry, and a step-by-step guide to launching a tokenized agent or prompt with it enabled. (中文: available) - [Swarms Reaches 7,000 GitHub Stars](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/swarms-7000-github-stars): Four years after it began as a research project, the open-source Swarms framework has crossed 7,000 GitHub stars, with 961 forks and 58 contributors. A thank you to the community that built it, and a look at where the project goes from here. (中文: available) - [Introducing Swarms Academy: Free Courses for the Multi-Agent Stack](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/introducing-swarms-academy): Swarms Academy is live at swarms.ai/academy. The flagship Swarms API course spans four parts and 31 lessons, with live API trials you run directly in the page, checkpoint projects, graded quizzes, and a points system that ranks you from Recruit to Swarm Architect. All of it is free. (中文: available) - [The Agent Economy Now Takes Card, Powered by Stripe](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/fiat-payments-live-swarms-marketplace): The Swarms Marketplace now supports fiat payments powered by Stripe. Buyers in 100+ countries can purchase AI agents and prompts with cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Alipay, Klarna, and more, while sellers get automatic bank payouts on every sale. (中文: available) - [Swarms Cloud Changelog: Two Months of Platform Updates](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/swarms-cloud-changelog): A week by week, day by day log of everything that shipped on Swarms Cloud over the past two months: a redesigned Agents workspace, a public model catalog spanning 1,500+ models, subscription billing, free credit for new accounts, guided onboarding, and dozens of reliability fixes, with what each change actually means for you. (中文: available) - [What Is Collective Superintelligence?](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/what-is-collective-superintelligence): A clear definition of Collective Superintelligence (CSI): what it is, the components it is built from, how it differs from AGI and ASI, how a swarm of specialized agents actually produces intelligence beyond any single model, and how to start building one today. (中文: available) - [What Is an AI Agent? LLM, Tools, Memory, and a Loop](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/what-is-an-agent): A precise definition of an AI agent: a large language model wrapped in tools, memory, and a looping structure. What each component does, why the loop is what makes an agent autonomous, and how to build your first agent in a few lines of Python. (中文: available) - [What Is an Agent Marketplace? How the Swarms Marketplace Lets You Discover and Trade AI Agents and Prompts](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/what-is-an-agent-marketplace): A complete guide to agent marketplaces: what they are, why they exist, and how the Swarms Marketplace at swarms.world lets you discover, publish, trade, and monetize AI agents, prompts, and tools, with pricing, tokenization, and code examples. (中文: available) - [Collective Superintelligence: Why CSI Will Surpass AGI and ASI](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/collective-superintelligence): Collective Superintelligence (CSI), networks of specialized agents working in concert, will surpass AGI in intelligence and capability while creating far greater economic value. Here is the argument, axis by axis: parallelism, reasoning depth, fault tolerance, memory, and specialization. (中文: available) - [Introducing Autonomous Filter Search: Describe What You Want, an Agent Finds It](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/autonomous-filter-search-agent): The Swarms Marketplace registry now ships with an autonomous filter search agent. Describe the agents, prompts, or tools you are looking for in plain English, and an AI agent translates your request into precise registry filters, applies them in front of you, and even recovers when nothing matches. (中文: available) - [The Autonomous Economy Is Coming: Our Founders Keynote at AI Salon](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/autonomous-economy-keynote): Swarms co-founder and CEO Kye Gomez addressed more than 80 attendees at AI Salon on the future of the economy: collapsing cognitive labor costs, a second labor force of billions of agents, and the rise of corporations that run themselves. Includes a full quickstart for the Swarms API. (中文: available) - [Speeding Up the Agent Economy: Major Marketplace Performance Improvements](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/marketplace-speed-improvements): The Swarms Marketplace now loads over 60% faster, with dramatically quicker product pages, lower-latency registry search, and a more responsive browsing experience across 6,000+ agents and prompts. (中文: available) - [Inside the Swarms Cloud Workflow Builder: Visual Multi-Agent Graphs](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/workflow-builder-swarms-cloud): A detailed look at how the Swarms Cloud Workflow Builder turns agents into a visual, connectable graph, how the underlying graph workflow execution model works, and how to build a production multi-agent pipeline with it. (中文: available) - [What Is a Multi-Agent System?](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/what-is-a-multi-agent-system): A clear, no-fluff explanation of what a multi-agent system actually is, why single LLM calls hit a ceiling, and the handful of ways multiple AI agents coordinate to get real work done. (中文: available) - [Single Agent vs. Multi-Agent: When One Agent Isn't Enough](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/single-agent-vs-multi-agent): A practical decision framework for choosing between a single well-tooled agent and a multi-agent architecture, with concrete signals, a worked example, and a checklist. (中文: available) - [Manager-Worker Agent Architectures: A Practical Introduction](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/manager-worker-agent-architectures): How director agents plan, delegate, and aggregate work across specialist worker agents, and when the extra layer of hierarchy is actually worth it. (中文: available) - [Compare Agents Side by Side on Swarms Cloud](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/compare-agents-swarms-cloud): Swarms Cloud's new Compare tool lets teams run the same task through two to six agent configurations at once, then see real cost, token usage, and output differences side by side before committing to production. (中文: available) - [Agentic AI Explained: How Autonomous Agents Actually Decide What to Do](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/agentic-ai-explained): A precise, mechanics-first explanation of agentic AI: the perceive-reason-act loop, how agents call tools mid-task, how memory shapes decisions, and why reasoning strategy is a configurable knob rather than a fixed property of the model. (中文: available) - [Sequential, Concurrent, and Graph Workflows: The Three Shapes of Agent Orchestration](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/agent-orchestration-patterns): Every multi-agent pipeline reduces to one of three topologies: a line, a fan-out, or a DAG. A framework-agnostic look at sequential, concurrent, and graph orchestration, with real code for each. (中文: available) - [All-New Swarms Cloud Updates](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/all-new-swarms-cloud-updates): Swarms Cloud adds a token usage dashboard, model pages spanning 1,500+ models, subscription management, and a wave of platform improvements for teams building production multi-agent systems. (中文: available) - [Swarms v2.0: The First Multi-Agent Framework in Rust](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/swarms-v2-rust-framework): Introducing the revolutionary Rust-based multi-agent framework that delivers unprecedented performance and memory safety for enterprise AI deployments. (中文: available) - [Advanced Agent-to-Agent Communication Protocols](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/agent-communication-protocols): Deep dive into the sophisticated communication protocols that enable seamless collaboration between AI agents in complex workflows. (中文: available) - [Enterprise Deployment Guide: Scaling AI Agents in Production](https://www.swarms.ai/blog/enterprise-deployment-guide): Comprehensive guide to deploying and scaling multi-agent systems in enterprise environments with maximum reliability and performance. (中文: available) ## Ecosystem - [Swarms API Docs](https://docs.swarms.ai): Full API reference, guides, and examples. Serves its own llms.txt at https://docs.swarms.ai/llms.txt. - [Swarms Framework Docs](https://docs.swarms.world): Python framework documentation and quickstart. - [Swarms Marketplace](https://swarms.world): Discover, buy, and sell AI agents, prompts, and tools. - [GitHub](https://github.com/kyegomez/swarms): The open-source Swarms framework repository.