CrewAI
Open-source framework for orchestrating collaborative multi-agent AI systems.
Updated April 2026
Overview
- Website
- crewai.com
- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, CA
- Segment
- Agent Frameworks & SDKs
- Posture
- Multi-Agent Frameworks
Product overview
CrewAI builds an open-source Python framework enabling developers to create teams of AI agents with roles, tasks, and tools that collaborate on complex workflows via Crews and Flows. Used by over 100,000 developers, 60% of Fortune 500 companies including DocuSign, PwC, and Gelato for automating research, content, support, and business processes. Distinct for production-ready features like memory, reasoning, hierarchical processes, enterprise security, and AMP Cloud/Factory platforms for managed deployment and scaling.
Revenue model
Open-source core (MIT license, free); paid cloud tiers starting at $25/month (100 executions) with overages, up to Enterprise/Ultra at $60k-$120k/year; AMP Factory for on-prem; execution-based subscriptions for managed platform.
Moat
CrewAI's key competitive moat is its leading open-source framework for orchestrating multi-agent AI systems, which has cultivated powerful network effects through over 100,000 certified developers, a strong community following, and mindshare among AI builders, making it the de facto standard for production-ready AI agent workflows. This is complemented by high switching costs from enterprise-grade proprietary extensions like CrewAI Enterprise and AMP, offering centralized management, real-time tracing, LLM-agnostic deployment, and integrations with tools like Salesforce and Slack, which lock in users building complex, scalable automations.