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Entry priceThe open source framework is free under MIT. The hosted Basic plan is free with 50 workflow executions a month, and Enterprise is custom priced.Full pricing detail

Open source multi agent framework (Python, MIT) of role based Crews and event driven Flows, with memory, knowledge, tools and MCP, plus CrewAI AMP for triggers, traces, human review, RBAC and SSO on CrewAI cloud, a VPC or self hosted.

CrewAI is an open source Python framework for multi agent systems, distributed under the MIT license. Crews are teams of role based agents, each with its own model, tools and memory, that delegate to and consult one another. Flows are event driven workflows with managed state and deterministic control, and a Flow step can hand work to a Crew. The framework adds a unified memory with scoped recall and forgetting, knowledge sources backed by a vector store, a large tool library, MCP servers as tools, sequential and hierarchical processes, checkpointing and replay, and a crewai test command that scores runs.

CrewAI AMP is the commercial build and run layer. It adds Crew Studio for visual building, triggers from Gmail, calendars, Microsoft 365, Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce and Zapier, enterprise integrations, traces of every execution with OpenTelemetry export, email routed human review for Flows, RBAC with custom roles, SSO, a secrets manager and PII redaction, with a platform API. It deploys on CrewAI cloud, a dedicated VPC or the customer's own infrastructure (CrewAI Factory). CrewAI counts 65 percent of the Fortune 500 among its users.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://crewai.com

Category

Multi-agent platform

Funding status

Venture backed, with $18 million raised across an inception round led by boldstart ventures and a Series A led by Insight Partners, announced in October 2024.

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Target customers

developersenterprises

Deployment options

open source library (self run)CrewAI cloud (AMP)dedicated VPCself hosted CrewAI Factory

Integrations

CrewAI ships a large tool library, supports custom tools and uses MCP servers as tools. CrewAI AMP integrates with Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Gmail and Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Jira, Linear, Notion, Shopify, Stripe, Snowflake, Databricks and Zendesk, and many of them can send event triggers. Crews can be exported as MCP servers, and traces flow to OpenTelemetry and Datadog.

In practice

You want a research agent, a writer, and a reviewer to hand work to each other rather than cramming everything into one prompt. CrewAI lets you define each as a role-based agent and have them collaborate as a crew.

Your agent app needs predictable control in some places and open-ended autonomy in others. CrewAI lets you wrap a deterministic Flow around the structure and drop a Crew into the steps that need agents to reason for themselves.

You've prototyped agents but compliance won't let them touch production unmonitored. CrewAI's AMP Control Plane traces every LLM and tool call with cost accounting, adds approval gates, audit trails, and PII redaction for traces.

Agentic Index coverage score

13.0 / 14 capabilities · 93%

Integrations & Tool Calling Full

The framework ships a large tool library and custom tools and connects to MCP servers as tools, and CrewAI AMP adds authenticated enterprise integrations such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Gmail, Microsoft 365, Jira, Notion, Stripe and Zendesk.

Sourcedocs-platform.crewai.com/platform/en/features/tools-and-integrationsread 2026-09-27

Workflow Orchestration Full

Flows are event driven workflows with managed state and deterministic control, and Crews are teams of role based agents that delegate to one another; a Flow step can hand off to a Crew, processes run sequential or hierarchical with a manager agent, tasks can be conditional, and checkpointing lets runs be replayed or forked.

Sourcedocs.crewai.com/en/concepts/flowsread 2026-09-27

Knowledge Grounding & RAG Full

Knowledge sources give agents a reference library of the customer's files and data, embedded into a vector store (ChromaDB by default, Qdrant supported) through a provider neutral RAG client and queried during tasks; new sources are added without retraining.

Sourcedocs.crewai.com/en/concepts/knowledgeread 2026-09-27

Human Oversight & Guardrails Full

Flows pause at @human_feedback steps for a person's review, and CrewAI AMP routes those requests by email to named reviewers with fallback responses on timeout; tasks can require human input before they complete, and a hallucination guardrail checks outputs.

Sourcedocs-platform.crewai.com/platform/en/features/flow-hitl-managementread 2026-09-27

Security, Identity & Governance Full

CrewAI offers RBAC with feature and entity level permissions and custom roles, SSO through WorkOS, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Auth0 or Keycloak on both SaaS and self hosted Factory, a secrets manager with cloud workload identity federation, and PII redaction for traces. No certification is named in the docs, and the trust center sits at trust.crewai.com.

Sourcedocs-platform.crewai.com/platform/en/features/rbacread 2026-09-27

Observability & Auditability Full

Traces in CrewAI AMP record every execution from inputs to outputs, including agent reasoning, task details, tool calls and outputs, tokens, timings and cost estimates, with OpenTelemetry export and a Datadog integration; the framework also emits events and integrates with tracing tools.

Sourcedocs-platform.crewai.com/platform/en/features/tracesread 2026-09-27

Memory & State Persistence Full

A unified Memory class stores what agents learn in a hierarchical scope tree that can be inspected, recalls by semantic similarity, recency and importance with a configurable recency half life, and forgets by scope, so one project's or customer's memory can be deleted without wiping the rest; it works with crews, agents and flows.

Sourcedocs.crewai.com/en/concepts/memoryread 2026-09-27

Deployment & Data Residency Full

Enterprise deploys on CrewAI cloud, a dedicated VPC or the customer's own infrastructure (CrewAI Factory, self hosted), and the MIT framework runs anywhere the customer runs Python.

Sourcecrewai.com/pricingread 2026-09-27

Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Partial

Every plan lists agentic workflow templates, and the AMP Marketplace offers reusable assets and templates to install, but the templates and what each one does are not listed. The open source examples and cookbooks are starting points a developer adapts.

Sourcedocs-platform.crewai.com/platform/en/features/marketplaceread 2026-09-27

Triggers & Channel Coverage Full

Events in Gmail, Google Calendar and Drive, Outlook, OneDrive, Microsoft Teams, Slack, HubSpot, Salesforce and Zapier can launch the chosen crew or flow through CrewAI AMP triggers, and webhook automation starts runs from outside systems.

Sourcedocs-platform.crewai.com/platform/en/guides/automation-triggersread 2026-09-27

Model Flexibility & Routing Full

Each agent can take its own model, chosen by the developer from many providers through their native SDKs or any LLM connection, including custom LLM implementations, and AMP supports Azure OpenAI and Vertex AI setups.

Sourcedocs.crewai.com/en/concepts/llmsread 2026-09-27

APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Full

Deployed crews expose a REST API (GET /inputs, POST /kickoff, POST /resume, GET /status), the AMP platform API manages automations, users, roles and service accounts with access tokens, the Python framework and CLI are open source, and crews can be exported as MCP servers.

Sourcedocs-platform.crewai.com/api/introductionread 2026-09-27

Testing, Debugging & Optimization Full

crewai test runs a crew for a set number of iterations and scores each task from 1 to 10 with an evaluator model, and AMP lists LLM testing and agent training that turns runs into improvement data; evaluation integrations such as Patronus are documented.

Sourcedocs.crewai.com/en/concepts/testingread 2026-09-27

Browser & Computer Use Partial

Agents reach the browser through third party engines added as tools, among them Stagehand, Browserbase, Hyperbrowser, MultiOn and a Selenium scraper, plus scraping tools, and CrewAI runs no browser of its own.

Sourcedocs.crewai.com/en/tools/web-scraping/overviewread 2026-09-27

The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded

Product updates

·Human approval / guardrailsPartially Verified

The Agent Control Plane is now generally available on CrewAI AMP, giving platform administrators 13 built in policies to configure once and switch on across deployments, covering PII detection and masking, allowed models and tool blocklists, execution windows, safety and compliance rules, and cost limit alerts. Teams can add custom policies that evaluate at runtime without code edits or redeploys, and the policies apply whether an agent was built in Crew Studio or in code.

Bears on: Security / enterprise

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·Human approval / guardrailsVerified

CrewAI released version 1.15.3, introducing a generic hook dispatcher with new step and execution-boundary interception points. The update also adds per-call usage metrics to kickoff results, resolves hook divergence bugs, and changes tool-result caching to an explicit opt-in feature.

Bears on: Human approval / guardrails

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·Workflow orchestrationVerified

[Pre-release / alpha] CrewAI 1.14.8a / 1.14.8a1 introduced JSON-first crews and expanded FlowDefinition: script/code block actions, crew actions, each composite actions, expressions, DMN mode, no-Python flow run tools, human feedback from flow definitions, config/persistence wiring, experimental `crewai run --definition`, ZIP deployment fallback, and optional `if` expressions for `each.do`.

Bears on: Workflow orchestration

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View all 11 CrewAI updates →Tracked since Apr 2026 · Verified from public vendor sources

Pricing

The open source framework is free under MIT. The hosted Basic plan is free with 50 workflow executions a month, and Enterprise is custom priced.

Workflow executions. Basic is capped at a monthly count, and Enterprise executions are sized to the workflow and priced by quote.

Free tierTrial available

Included quota

The free Basic plan includes 50 workflow executions a month.

What is public

CrewAI publishes a free Basic plan with its limits and a custom priced Enterprise plan with its feature list at crewai.com/pricing. No paid self serve tier is published.

Billing mechanics

Basic is free with a cap of 50 executions a month. Enterprise executions are sized to the workflow with flexible overage, set by quote.

Cost watchouts

Every deployment brings its own LLM API keys, so token spend is billed by the model provider on top of any platform fee. Batch runs multiply executions, so kickoff_for_each on 50 items consumes 50 executions. Agent loops with no limit can run up large provider bills, and max iterations and per crew budgets are the controls on that spend.

Variable cost rationale

The hosted platform meters workflow executions. Basic is capped at 50 a month, and batch runs multiply executions. Enterprise executions are sized to the workflow, with flexible overage set by quote on an order form, and no pay as you go rate is published. Model usage is billed separately by the customer's own LLM providers on every deployment, so token spend grows with agent runs. Max iterations and per crew budgets are the controls on that spend.

Overage / add-ons

Enterprise is custom, with flexible overage set by quote. No paid tier sits between Basic and Enterprise.

Sales call required

Yes, required for paid access

Free / trial

Free Basic plan with 50 workflow executions a month and 2 automations, and an Enterprise trial on request

Lowest paid plan

Not published

Key ambiguities

No paid self serve tier is published.

Cancellation / refund

Enterprise is sold on an order form, and fees cannot be canceled or refunded. The term renews automatically unless notice is given 30 days ahead.

Support SLA / resale

Support is on a reasonable efforts basis, and Basic gets community support. Enterprise adds dedicated support with on site help, Slack or Teams access, training and deployment assistance.

Missing data

There is no paid self serve tier, no Enterprise list price, no SLA or service credit schedule and no monthly or annual discount structure.

Agentic Index verified 2026-10-25

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