Strands harness cuts agent costs 28% without sacrificing benchmark accuracy
Developers can now run a general-purpose agent locally or in the cloud with one line of Python or TypeScript, while choosing models from Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Ollama, or LiteLLM. Strands harness includes shell, file, and web tools, persistent memory, session resumption, and a helper agent. AWS reports 28% lower cost than comparable harnesses across six benchmarks using the same Claude or GPT models, with nearly equal scores.