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jaeger vs agentscope-studio
jaeger has 23,223 GitHub stars, 3,122 forks, 547 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. agentscope-studio has 651 stars, 141 forks, 11 open issues and last shipped 18 days ago. jaeger leads on adoption by 3,467% (23,223 vs 651 stars). jaeger is written in Go under Apache-2.0; agentscope-studio is written in TypeScript under Apache-2.0. jaeger has attracted 13% as many forks as stars, agentscope-studio 22%. jaeger was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 2 topic tags (opentelemetry, tracing), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| jaeger | agentscope-studio | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 23K | ★ 651 |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | Go | TypeScript |
| Last push | 2026-09-18 | 2026-09-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 3.1K | ⑂ 141 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick jaeger if
- You weight community size — 23K stars and counting
- You want the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches Go
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick agentscope-studio if
- You want the agentscope-studio feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You evaluated both and agentscope-studio fits your workflow better
About jaeger
Jaeger is a distributed tracing platform hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), where it graduated as the 7th top level project in October 2019. It was originally created by Uber Technologies and then donated to the CNCF. The project is written in Go and released under the Apache 2.0 license, and it lives in the OpenTelemetry and observability ecosystem: it consumes traces from OpenTelemetry SDKs and reuses components from the OpenTelemetry Collector. Its repository carries topics including cncf, distributed tracing, jaeger, observability, opentelemetry and tracing, and the project is openly gove…
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About agentscope-studio
AgentScope Studio is a local, development oriented visualization toolkit for developers building agent based applications with the AgentScope framework, offering project management, a chatbot style runtime view, OpenTelemetry tracing, statistical evaluation and a built in development copilot — although it is no longer maintained as a standalone tool and is being archived in favour of the built in Web UI shipped with AgentScope 2.0.
read the full agentscope-studio overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is jaeger or agentscope-studio more popular?
jaeger has 23,223 GitHub stars and agentscope-studio has 651. jaeger has the larger community by that measure.
Are jaeger and agentscope-studio free?
Both are open source. jaeger is licensed under Apache-2.0 and agentscope-studio under Apache-2.0. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between jaeger and agentscope-studio?
jaeger is written in Go and agentscope-studio in TypeScript. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, jaeger or agentscope-studio?
Choose jaeger if you want the larger community (23,223 stars) or its Apache-2.0 licence terms. Choose agentscope-studio if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.