CrewAI
By CrewAI
Open-source Python framework, MIT-licensed with around 60,000 GitHub stars and about 620,000 weekly PyPI downloads, for building multi-agent workflows from Crews, teams of role-based agents that divide a task between them, and Flows, event-driven pipelines that mix single model calls with crews under explicit control; the commercial CrewAI AMP suite adds managed deployment, tracing, and governance, and its control plane is free to try.
Best for
- splitting a research or writing task across role-based agents
- event-driven pipelines that hand work to a crew only where autonomy helps
- prototyping multi-agent workflows in plain Python
- moving a crew to managed deployment with tracing
- governance and access control around production agents
- Oct 28, 2026Added to the automation category: MIT-licensed multi-agent framework, roughly 60,000 GitHub stars and 620,000 weekly PyPI downloads, built from role-based Crews and event-driven Flows; the commercial CrewAI AMP suite adds managed deployment, tracing, and governance. Code-first, where Flowise, Langflow, and Dify in the same category are visual builders.
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