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CrewAI
CrewAI is a multi-agent platform where business and engineering teams build, run and govern AI agents, from a visual editor or Python code.
CrewAI gives business teams and engineers one platform to build AI agents and gives platform teams the controls to govern them. Discovery compares patterns from billions of agent runs with a company's tickets, chats, apps and workflows to rank automation opportunities by effort, value and readiness. Agents are built with a prompt-driven canvas or a no-code visual editor that exports to Python, or with a code-first API using role-based agents and deterministic workflows. The control plane traces every LLM call, tool call and memory read with cost accounting, and adds role-based access, audit trails, human approval gates and runtime hooks for PII redaction and policy checks. Production runs feed back as training data, models can be swapped and compared at runtime, and CrewAI says 65% of the Fortune 500 use it.
CrewAI at a glance
- Best for: Software engineer, Founder
- Runs on: Web, API, self-hosted, open source
- Pricing: Free with 50 workflow executions/month; Enterprise custom
- Released: November 2023
- Category: AI agent tool
- Website: crewai.com
Key features
- Discovery of automation opportunities from real workflows
- No-code visual editor that exports to Python
- Code-first API with role-based agents
- Real-time tracing with cost accounting
- Human approval gates and policy hooks
- RBAC, audit trails and SSO
- Deploy on CrewAI cloud, a VPC or own infrastructure
Use it for
- Enrich sales leads with company data automatically
- Respond to customer support tickets with an agent crew
- Consolidate data from several internal systems
Companions
Tools that articles about CrewAI recommend using with it, each with its job.
- AgentOps — Session replay and time-travel debugging for crews.
- Langfuse — OTel-native traces when data must stay in-house.
- Mem0 — Adds the persistent memory CrewAI lacks by default.
- Ollama — Run whole crews on local hardware with no API keys.
Companion to
Tools whose articles name CrewAI as a companion, each with its job for them.
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