CrewAI
Multi-agent framework — Crews (sequential) + Flows (event-driven). Open-source core + CrewAI Enterprise. Memory available via Mem0 / Letta adapters (CrewAI Memory cross-listed).
Active · Verified 2026-10-26 · fresh as of 2026-10-26 · 45 cited facts, 9 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Multi-agent orchestration vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Latest release
- v1.15.30 (2026-10-24) registry fix
- Funding
- $18M total raised: $1.7M seed 2024-04 (Earlybird + InsightPartners), then $18M Series A 2024-10 (Insight Partners led). vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-26 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- SDK languages
- python, rest vendor fix
- Protocols
- ag-ui, mcp-client vendor fix
When to use
Optimised for: searched not found
Anti-fit: searched not found
Pros & cons
Pros
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Cons
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Claims & capabilities
$18M Series A 2024 (Andreessen Horowitz led); 175k+ developers.
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Deployment
- Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — OSS library; CrewAI AMP on CrewAI cloud, your VPC or own infra
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- yes — official MCP support in CrewAI agents
- A2A
- yes — native A2A support in CrewAI agents
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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Sources (44 cited facts, 9 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is Multi-agent orchestration vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Multi-agent framework — Crews (sequential) + Flows (event-driven). Open-source core + Cr… vendor
- Claims / benefits $18M Series A 2024 (Andreessen Horowitz led); 175k+ developers. vendor
- Created 2023 repo
- Latest release v1.15.30 (2026-10-24) registry
- License MIT repo
- GitHub crewAIInc/crewAI — ~58.6k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo
- Funding $18M total raised: $1.7M seed 2024-04 (Earlybird + InsightPartners), then $18M Series A … vendor
- Customers / scale Oracle, Deloitte, Accenture, PwC, Cohere; multi-agent platform. vendor
- Pricing free (OSS); AMP Basic free (50 workflow executions/mo); Enterprise custom vendor
- Deployment Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — OSS library; CrewAI AMP on CrewAI cloud, your VPC o… vendor
- HQ São Paulo, Brazil / San Francisco, CA, USA. third-party
- Founders / pedigree João Moura (CEO); founded 2023; ex-Clearbit lead engineer. vendor
- MCP support yes — official MCP support in CrewAI agents repo
- A2A support yes — native A2A support in CrewAI agents repo
- Runtimes Python repo
- obs-langsmith yes vendor
- obs-opentelemetry yes vendor
- obs-datadog yes third-party
- obs-weave yes third-party
- obs-langfuse yes third-party
- obs-arize yes third-party
- obs-custom AgentOps, Langtrace, Portkey, Patronus, MLflow, Maxim AI vendor
- cost-token-budget yes vendor
- cost-prompt-caching no vendor
- cost-semantic-caching no vendor
- cost-batching no vendor
- cost-model-routing yes vendor
- cost-streaming-only no vendor
- cost-observability-cost-attribution yes vendor
- eval-langsmith-evals yes third-party
- eval-braintrust yes third-party
- eval-weights-and-biases-agent yes third-party
- eval-helicone-evals yes third-party
- eval-custom-test-harness yes vendor
- eval-human-loop yes vendor
- eval-production-traffic-replay no vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus local vendor
- licensing-bucket open-core vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- sdk-languages python,rest vendor
- protocol-support ag-ui,mcp-client vendor
- maturity ga repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-26
- License first recorded as “MIT” source
- Latest release first recorded as “v1.15.30 (2026-10-24)” source
- Pricing first recorded as “free (OSS); AMP Basic free (50 workflow executions/mo); Enterprise custom” source
- Deployment first recorded as “Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — OSS library; CrewAI AMP on CrewAI cloud, your VPC or own infra” source
- MCP support first recorded as “yes — official MCP support in CrewAI agents” source
- A2A support first recorded as “yes — native A2A support in CrewAI agents” source
Related systems
References (36)
- Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) integrates with — CrewAI docs have an A2A agent delegation guide. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Anthropic Claude (foundation models) integrates with — CrewAI LLM docs include an Anthropic provider configuration section. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Arize Phoenix integrates with — CrewAI docs have an Arize Phoenix observability integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- AWS SageMaker integrates with — CrewAI LLM docs include an Amazon SageMaker provider configuration section. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Braintrust integrates with — CrewAI docs have a Braintrust observability integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Browserbase integrates with — CrewAI docs have a Browserbase load tool page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Chroma integrates with — CrewAI knowledge docs say ChromaDB is the default vector store for its RAG client. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Comet ML integrates with — CrewAI docs have an Opik (Comet) observability integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Composio integrates with — CrewAI docs have a Composio tool page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Datadog Agent Observability (LLM Observability) integrates with — CrewAI observability docs have a Datadog integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Daytona integrates with — CrewAI docs have a Daytona sandbox tools page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- e2b integrates with — CrewAI docs have an E2B sandbox tools page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Fireworks AI integrates with — CrewAI LLM docs include a Fireworks AI provider configuration section. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Galileo integrates with — CrewAI docs have a Galileo observability integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Google Gemini 3 family integrates with — CrewAI LLM docs include a Google Gemini API provider configuration section. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Hyperbrowser integrates with — CrewAI docs have a Hyperbrowser load tool page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangChain (framework) integrates with — CrewAI docs have a LangChain tool adapter page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langfuse integrates with — CrewAI docs have a Langfuse observability integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LlamaIndex (framework) integrates with — CrewAI docs have a LlamaIndexTool adapter page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mem0 depends on at runtime — Memory available via Mem0 / Letta adapters (CrewAI Memory cross-listed).
- Meta Llama 4 family integrates with — CrewAI LLM docs include a Meta Llama API provider configuration section. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family integrates with — CrewAI LLM docs include a Mistral provider configuration section. (verified 2026-10-29)
- MLflow integrates with — CrewAI docs have an MLflow observability integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP spec) integrates with — CrewAI docs have an MCP section for using MCP servers as agent tools (stdio, SSE, streamable HTTP). (verified 2026-10-29)
- MongoDB Atlas Vector Search integrates with — CrewAI docs have a MongoDB vector search tool page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- MultiOn (now AGI, Inc.) integrates with — CrewAI docs have a MultiOn tool page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) integrates with — CrewAI LLM docs include an OpenAI provider configuration section. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenRouter integrates with — CrewAI LLM docs include an OpenRouter provider configuration section. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Patronus AI integrates with — CrewAI docs have a Patronus AI evaluation observability integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Portkey AI integrates with — CrewAI docs have a Portkey observability integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Qdrant integrates with — CrewAI docs have a Qdrant vector search tool page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Stagehand integrates with — CrewAI docs have a Stagehand tool page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- TrueFoundry AI Gateway integrates with — CrewAI observability docs have a TrueFoundry integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Voyage AI (MongoDB) integrates with — CrewAI knowledge docs show Voyage AI as a knowledge embedding provider. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Weaviate integrates with — CrewAI docs have a Weaviate vector search tool page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Weights & Biases integrates with — CrewAI docs have a Weights & Biases Weave observability integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
Referenced by (29)
- AgentOps integrates with — AgentOps docs have a CrewAI integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Arcade.dev integrates with — Arcade docs have a CrewAI integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Arize Phoenix integrates with — Arize Phoenix docs have a CrewAI integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Braintrust integrates with — Braintrust docs have a CrewAI integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Browserbase integrates with — Browserbase docs have a CrewAI integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Comet ML integrates with — Comet's Opik docs have a CrewAI integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Composio integrates with — Composio's SDKs and frameworks page lists a CrewAI provider. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Datadog Agent Observability (LLM Observability) integrates with — Datadog LLM Observability auto-instrumentation page lists a CrewAI LLM integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- e2b integrates with — E2B docs have a CrewAI integration guide. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Fireworks AI integrates with — Fireworks AI docs integration: CrewAI. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Galileo integrates with — Galileo's third-party integrations docs list CrewAI as a supported integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- HoneyHive integrates with — HoneyHive integrations docs have a CrewAI tracing/integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- IBM ContextForge MCP Gateway integrates with — IBM ContextForge docs have a CrewAI integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langfuse integrates with — Langfuse's integrations directory has a CrewAI integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangSmith integrates with — LangSmith docs have a tracing integration page for CrewAI. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mem0 integrates with — Mem0 docs have a CrewAI integration page (Combine CrewAI agent-based architecture with Mem0 for persistent memory across agent interactions). (verified 2026-10-29)
- MongoDB Atlas Vector Search integrates with — MongoDB's Atlas AI Integrations page lists CrewAI as an integration (some entries are marked community-maintained). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Neo4j integrates with — Neo4j's GenAI ecosystem docs have a CrewAI integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenInference integrates with — The OpenInference repo README lists an OpenInference instrumentation package for CrewAI. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenLLMetry (Traceloop) integrates with — OpenLLMetry's What's Supported page lists CrewAI as instrumented out of the box. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Portkey AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a CrewAI agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pydantic Logfire integrates with — Pydantic Logfire integrations docs have a CrewAI page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Qdrant integrates with — Qdrant's documentation has a CrewAI integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Stagehand integrates with — Stagehand docs have a CrewAI integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Together AI integrates with — Together AI docs third-party/agent integrations: CrewAI. (verified 2026-10-29)
- TrueFoundry AI Gateway integrates with — TrueFoundry AI Gateway ecosystem lists a CrewAI integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Weaviate integrates with — Weaviate's integrations / model-provider docs list CrewAI as an integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Weights & Biases integrates with — W&B Weave docs have a CrewAI integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Zep & Graphiti integrates with — Zep docs have a CrewAI integration page (zep-crewai package). (verified 2026-10-29)