I built the same agent in Strands, LangGraph, and CrewAI — and recorded every LLM call to see how they actually differ

Dev.to•Mon, Sep 21, 2026, 05:47 AM•2 min read

Which framework should I actually use? Every comparison article has an opinion. Almost none of them has data.

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