CrewAI
Multi-agent framework — Crews (sequential) + Flows (event-driven). Open-source core + CrewAI Enterprise. Memory available via Mem0 / Letta adapters (CrewAI Memory cross-listed).
At a glance
- Type
- Multi-agent orchestration
- Tier
- T1
- Created
- 2023
- Latest release
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- License
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- GitHub
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- Pricing
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- Funding
- $18M total raised: $1.7M seed 2024-04 (Earlybird + InsightPartners), then $18M Series A 2024-10 (Insight Partners led).
Taxonomy
- storage
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- retrieval
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- persistence
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- update
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- unit
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- governance
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When to use
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Pros & cons
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Claims & capabilities
$18M Series A 2024 (Andreessen Horowitz led); 175k+ developers.
Technical surface
- API surface
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- Backend storage
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Deployment
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- Embedding model
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- Multi-tenancy
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- MCP
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- A2A
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- OpenTelemetry
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Related systems
References (1)
- Mem0 depends on at runtime — e. Memory available via Mem0 / Letta adapters (CrewAI Memory cross-listed).