Dapr
State of Dapr 2026
How developers are using Dapr for microservices, workflow orchestration, and AI agent development in 2026.
What's inside
- How teams are using Dapr for microservices, event-driven architecture, and agentic AI in production
- Workflow orchestration adoption: why the Workflow API usage doubled year over year
- AI agent development with Dapr Agents, LangGraph, CrewAI, and other leading agentic AI frameworks
- Multi-cloud and Kubernetes deployment trends across Azure, AWS, and GCP
- MCP server adoption and the top security and authentication challenges developers face
- Platform engineering: how teams use Dapr to build internal developer platforms
- Business impact: developer time savings, ROI, and why teams choose Dapr over building their own platform
Key findings
- 8 in 10 developers report 30%+ time savings
- 95% expect Dapr usage to grow
- 34% are now building AI agents with Dapr
- Workflow API usage doubled year over year
- 83% are in production or plan to deploy within 6 months
- 28% already have AI agents running in production
- 82% say the alternative to Dapr would be building their own distributed systems platform