OpenAgents vs CrewAI

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

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

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...

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.