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.
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CrewAI
Framework for orchestrating teams of AI agents
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| RECATOOLS Score | 5.2 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| 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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