# Jido

15 Hacker News commenters recommended Jido and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 2 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free Elixir framework for building AI agents, recommended for fitting the BEAM's fault tolerance and streamlining repeated agent workflows.

## Why people recommend it

- Fits BEAM fault tolerance for agents (2 comments): "The BEAM's fault tolerance model makes a lot of sense for agent workloads" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283478)) "BEAM does seem like a perfect fit for an Agent framework" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263799))
- Streamlines and formalizes repeated agent workflows (2 comments): "I think Jido will be prefect for us and will help us organize and streamline not just our agent interactions" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264678)) "When you have workflows that you repeat over and over it's easier to formalize with something like jido." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47296788))
- Reduces development pain, covers many uses (2 comments): "This looks like it will really remove a lot of pain for development." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264750)) "Looks like you could do everything in Jido 2.0" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264191))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Claude Agent SDK](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-agent-sdk.md): 36 recommend
- [LangChain](https://hackerapproved.com/p/langchain.md): 32 recommend
- [Mastra](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mastra.md): 32 recommend
- [LangGraph](https://hackerapproved.com/p/langgraph.md): 31 recommend
- [DSPy](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dspy.md): 29 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Jido", https://hackerapproved.com/p/jido-2-0-elixir-agent-framework/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).