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CrewAI

CrewAI

Role-based multi-agent orchestration framework built around crews and flows, where agents take defined roles and hand work between them. A commercial platform is sold alongside it, adding SSO, role-based access control, workload identity, PII redaction and deployment to the vendor's cloud, a customer VPC or on-premises infrastructure.

The enterprise-named module in the tree is a configuration client rather than a separate product, so the published framework is not feature-gated. Verified 2026-08-12 via the crewAIInc/crewAI repository tree, its enterprise CLI module and the vendor pricing page.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
MIT(framework)
source
public
core-gated
ungated(a full 29,439-entry tree carries one MIT LICENSE and no ee/ or separately licensed directory

MIT framework with the CrewAI AMP platform sold beside it, and nothing withheld from the framework itself. The 29,439-entry untruncated tree of crewAIInc/crewAI at main carries a single MIT LICENSE and no second license file anywhere; the only enterprise-named source, lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/enterprise/main.py, is an MIT CLI client that fetches OAuth2 parameters from whatever AMP URL you give it, unlocking nothing. The pricing page tiers the AMP platform - visual editor and executions free, SSO, RBAC, PII redaction and deployment options paid - and makes no claim about a capability the Python framework lacks. What is sold is a platform around a complete open core, the same arrangement LangChain has, so the core is not gated.

  • https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-15

    The LICENSE file is the verbatim MIT License text, 'Copyright (c) 2025 crewAI, Inc.', granting use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense and sell without restriction. Establishes the license tier as OSI.

  • https://github.com/crewaiinc/crewai recorded 2026-08-15

    Repository page for crewAIInc/crewAI: 'MIT license' in the sidebar, 57.1k stars, public and unarchived. The README presents the whole framework with no enterprise directory named in the tree.

  • https://crewai.com/open-source recorded 2026-08-15

    The vendor's own open-source page, positioning the MIT framework alongside the CrewAI AMP platform sold beside it. It names no framework capability withheld from the published source, which is what the ungated reading rests on.

  • https://api.github.com/repos/crewAIInc/crewAI/git/trees/main?recursive=1 recorded 2026-08-12

    Full untruncated recursive tree, 29,439 entries. The only license path is the root LICENSE. The enterprise-named paths are docs/images/enterprise/*.png, lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/enterprise/ and its tests - no separately licensed directory, no license-key module, no closed package the framework imports.

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/main/lib/cli/src/crewai_cli/enterprise/main.py recorded 2026-08-12

    The enterprise-named module is a 125-line CLI client, MIT like the rest of the repo. EnterpriseConfigureCommand.configure(enterprise_url) does an HTTP GET of {enterprise_url}/auth/parameters and writes the returned OAuth2 settings locally. It unlocks nothing and checks no license key.

  • https://www.crewai.com/pricing recorded 2026-08-12

    Tiers are Basic (free) and Enterprise (custom). What Enterprise adds is platform and governance - SSO, RBAC, workload identity, PII redaction, policies, deployment to "CrewAI cloud, your own VPC, or your own infrastructure", onboarding and support - against a Basic tier described by visual editor, AI copilot, GitHub integration and 50 monthly executions. The page describes a "unified build and runtime platform" and nowhere claims a capability missing from the open-source Python framework.

  • https://api.github.com/repos/crewAIInc/crewAI recorded 2026-08-12

    Repo metadata: language Python, license spdx_id MIT, 56,955 stars, default branch main.

Adoption

5 high confidence
5.0

17,374,215 PyPI downloads in the trailing 30 days for the declared artifact, which bands at >10M, level 5. PyPI is the framework's declared and primary channel, so this measures the product itself rather than standing in for it. CrewAI separately reports more than 2B agent executions over the past 12 months.

Capability

3 high confidence
3.0

Role-based multi-agent orchestration framework (crews/flows). No first-party SWE-bench/GAIA score verified for the framework itself; rated on feature matrix as an opinionated agent-orchestration library.

Verified 2026-08-12