BabyAGI vs AgentGPT vs AutoGPT vs CrewAI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
BabyAGI
The viral 2023 agent loop, reborn as a self-building framework
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AgentGPT
Early autonomous-agent experiment — repo archived January 2026, no lon...
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AutoGPT
The open-source autonomous AI agent that completes multi-step tasks in...
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CrewAI
Framework for orchestrating teams of AI agents
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| RECATOOLS Score | 4.5 / 10 | 4.5 / 10 | 6 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Fully free | Limited free agent runs per day | Free to self-host the open-source version | Fully free open source framework |
| Paid from | — | $40/month (Pro) | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 16000+ GitHub stars | 100k+ users | 100k+ GitHub stars | 20m+ downloads |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Yohei Nakajima | Reworkd AI | Toran Bruce Richards | Joao Moura |
| Verdict | BabyAGI earned its place in history — the March 2023 task-creation, prioritisation and execution loop shaped how a generation of agent frameworks think, and echoes of it survive in CrewAI and LangGraph. But the famous sc... |
Note: AgentGPT is no longer actively maintained.AgentGPT mattered as a demonstration: in 2023 it put the Auto-GPT-style autonomous agent loop in a browser with zero setup, and for a lot of people it was their first look... |
AutoGPT popularized autonomous AI agents back in 2023 and has since split into two paths: a free, self-hostable open-source core (Docker Compose, MIT-licensed outside the platform folder) and a hosted AutoGPT Platform wi... |
CrewAI is the most-starred open-source framework for building multi-agent systems — spin up agents with roles, goals and tools, then orchestrate them into "crews" or sequential flows. Version 1.14 (April 2026) dropped th... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.