What is CrewAI?
CrewAI is an open-source Python framework, started in 2023 by João Moura, for orchestrating multiple collaborating AI agents ("crews") and multi-step flows, released under the MIT license and installable via pip. CrewAI Inc. also sells CrewAI Enterprise, a hosted runtime and build platform with a free Basic tier (50 workflow executions/month) and custom Enterprise pricing adding SSO, role-based access control and deployment to private VPCs or customer infrastructure.
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Sources checked 27 September 2026: CrewAI, GitHub repository, documentation, CrewAI pricing.
Key capabilities
- Framework: open-source Python library for defining agents, tasks, crews and flows.
- Enterprise runtime: visual editor, AI copilot, GitHub integration (free Basic tier, paid beyond it).
- Governance (Enterprise tier): SSO, RBAC, PII redaction, private VPC or customer-infrastructure deployment.
- Execution quota: Basic tier free up to 50 monthly workflow executions.
Check whether your workload fits inside the free Basic tier's execution quota before assuming CrewAI Enterprise is free, and confirm model/token costs separately since CrewAI's own fees exclude underlying LLM usage. Test agent reliability on a real multi-step task before scaling up.
Use the open-source CrewAI framework when building multi-agent workflows in code and self-hosting the result. Consider CrewAI Enterprise instead when you need a managed runtime, visual editor, governance controls and support without operating the infrastructure yourself; its free Basic tier caps out at 50 executions/month.
CrewAI can structure multi-agent orchestration that would otherwise require custom code, but reliability still depends on the underlying models and your task design. License and pricing details are drawn from the CrewAI GitHub repository and CrewAI pricing page, checked 27 September 2026.
Technical details
- Access
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Open source
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Pricing model
- Open source
- API
- Available
- Website
- www.crewai.com ↗
Official resources
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- Confirm current features, licensing and support terms with the publisher.
- Validate deployment, data location, access control, backup and recovery requirements.
- Test integrations, export paths and a representative operational workflow before committing.
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