CrewAI vs OpenAgents

A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.

CrewAI Framework for orchestrating teams of AI agents Visit OpenAgents Open-source research platform for language agents — now dormant. Visit
RECATOOLS Score 7.6 / 10 5.2 / 10
Capability 8 5
Value for money 8 6
Ease of use 6 4
ASEAN readiness 6 5
API quality 8 3
Pricing Open Source Open Source
Free tier Fully free open source framework Fully free
Paid from
Has API
Open source
Free to use
Users 20m+ downloads 5000+ GitHub stars
Founded 2023 2023
Maker Joao Moura Sea AI Lab / HKU
Verdict

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...

OpenAgents from HKU's XLang Lab was an early open-source answer to ChatGPT's plugin-and-agent experience, packaging a data-analysis agent, a plugins agent and a web-browsing agent behind a chat UI, with the write-up publ...

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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.