CrewAI
✓ VerifiedMIT-licensed agents, crews, and flows framework with optional control plane
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About
CrewAI is an MIT-licensed Python framework for multi-agent automations. The 1.6.1 release (Nov 29 2025) ships Crews for autonomous collaboration and Flows for event-driven orchestration with guardrails, memory, knowledge, and observability hooks. It runs with your own model/API keys (OpenAI/Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenAI-compatible providers like Groq, or local via Ollama/LM Studio) and offers an optional Crew Control Plane for hosted/on-prem tracing, triggers, and RBAC.
Key Features
- ✓Crews for autonomous agent collaboration and Flows for event-driven orchestration
- ✓Guardrails, memory, knowledge, and structured outputs for production automations
- ✓CLI/SDK with uv-based project scaffolding and tool integrations
- ✓Observability hooks with optional telemetry opt-out
- ✓Crew Control Plane for hosted/on-prem tracing, triggers, RBAC, and deployment management
- ✓Provider flexibility across OpenAI-compatible endpoints, Anthropic, Groq, and local models via Ollama/LM Studio
Use Cases
- →Agentic automations combining Crews and Flows
- →Event-driven workflows with triggers and structured state
- →Enterprise-grade automations with RBAC and observability
- →Local or cloud-hosted deployments using BYO model/API keys
Technical Details
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is CrewAI?
CrewAI is an MIT-licensed Python framework for multi-agent automations. The 1.6.1 release (Nov 29 2025) ships Crews for autonomous collaboration and Flows for event-driven orchestration with guardrails, memory, knowledge, and observability hooks. It runs with your own model/API keys (OpenAI/Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenAI-compatible providers like Groq, or local via Ollama/LM Studio) and offers an optional Crew Control Plane for hosted/on-prem tracing, triggers, and RBAC.
Is CrewAI free?
Yes, CrewAI is open source and free to use. Crews and Flows runtime with guardrails, memory, and knowledge, CLI/SDK with structured outputs and tool integrations, Observability hooks; telemetry can be disabled
What programming languages does CrewAI support?
CrewAI supports 1+ programming languages including Python.
What AI models does CrewAI use?
CrewAI is powered by OpenAI and Azure OpenAI models, Anthropic Claude, Groq and other OpenAI-compatible providers, Local models via Ollama or LM Studio.
What platforms does CrewAI support?
CrewAI is available on macOS, Windows, Linux.
What can CrewAI do?
CrewAI provides AI chat, agentic/autonomous mode. Key features include: Crews for autonomous agent collaboration and Flows for event-driven orchestration, Guardrails, memory, knowledge, and structured outputs for production automations, CLI/SDK with uv-based project scaffolding and tool integrations.
Pricing
Free (MIT open source)
$0 (BYO model API keys)- •Crews and Flows runtime with guardrails, memory, and knowledge
- •CLI/SDK with structured outputs and tool integrations
- •Observability hooks; telemetry can be disabled
Crew Control Plane (Cloud/Enterprise)
Contact sales (free trial available)- •Hosted or on-prem control plane with tracing/observability
- •Automation triggers (e.g., Gmail, Slack, Salesforce, Outlook, HubSpot, Drive/OneDrive)
- •Team management, RBAC, deployment controls, and integration toolkit
Company
- Name
- crewAI, Inc.
- Founded
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Not disclosed
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