Jido
Shares rank 12 of 28 agent frameworks by recommenders
Free Elixir framework for building AI agents, recommended for fitting the BEAM's fault tolerance and streamlining repeated agent workflows.
Free Elixir framework for building AI agents, recommended for fitting the BEAM's fault tolerance and streamlining repeated agent workflows.
16 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 15
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 94%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 15 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 15 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Fits BEAM fault tolerance for agents
“The BEAM's fault tolerance model makes a lot of sense for agent workloads”
Comment from 7 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework” “BEAM does seem like a perfect fit for an Agent framework”
Comment from 5 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework” Streamlines and formalizes repeated agent workflows
“I think Jido will be prefect for us and will help us organize and streamline not just our agent interactions”
Comment from 5 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework” “When you have workflows that you repeat over and over it's easier to formalize with something like jido.”
Comment from 8 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework” Reduces development pain, covers many uses
“This looks like it will really remove a lot of pain for development.”
Comment from 5 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework” “Looks like you could do everything in Jido 2.0”
Comment from 5 Mar 2026 in “Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework”
Other agent frameworks people recommend
The four most recommended other agent frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Agent SDK | 36 | 25 | 59% | 11 | — | — |
| LangChain | 32 | 79 | 29% | 10 | 1 yr3 owners | — |
| Mastra | 32 | 3 | 91% | 10 | — | Approved |
| LangGraph | 31 | 23 | 57% | 12 | — | — |
| JidoThis page | 15 | 1 | 94% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
13 of the 19 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“When you have workflows that you repeat over and over it's easier to formalize with something like jido.”
“The BEAM's fault tolerance model makes a lot of sense for agent workloads”
“Lots of output validation support!”
“I really like the focus on “data and pure functions” from the beginning of the post.”
“I read the first version and incorporated several of its ideas into our own internal elixir agent framework.”
“The core of Jido will run on a Raspberry Pi”
“I've been following this project for several months now”
“This looks like it will really remove a lot of pain for development.”
“I think Jido will be prefect for us and will help us organize and streamline not just our agent interactions”
“the page loads fine and then after a few seconds refreshes into a 404”
“Looks like you could do everything in Jido 2.0”
“BEAM does seem like a perfect fit for an Agent framework”
“A library I'm excited to not vibecode against!”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.