---
slug: "crewai"
name: "CrewAI"
effect: "Orchestrates teams of role-based agents (Crews) and event-driven workflows (Flows) in Python"
category: "agent-framework"
tier: "standard"
url: "https://crewai.com/"
github: "crewAIInc/crewAI"
pricing: "open-source"
license: "MIT"
tags: ["python", "multi-agent", "workflows", "role-based", "cli"]
platforms: []
install_kind: "cli"
date_added: "2026-10-14"
rank: null
rising_score: 45
stars: 59704
star_velocity: 55.1
velocity_basis: "since creation"
created_at: "2023-10-27T03:26:59Z"
pushed_at: "2026-10-15T04:30:03Z"
signals_status: "ok"
signals_fetched_at: "2026-10-15T05:02:40.237Z"
page: "https://agenttooldrop.com/tools/crewai"
---

# CrewAI

Orchestrates teams of role-based agents (Crews) and event-driven workflows (Flows) in Python

Category: Agent frameworks. Tier: standard (a well-known tool, listed for reference, not ranked). Pricing: Open source. License: MIT.

## Why you would want it

CrewAI is a standalone Python framework with its own primitives for agents, tasks, crews, flows, tools and orchestration. Crews let role-based agents collaborate and delegate tasks autonomously, while Flows give event-driven control with state management and conditional branching, and the two can be combined. The crewai CLI scaffolds a project where agents and tasks are defined in JSONC files and run with crewai run.

## Best for

- Multi-agent teams with defined roles
- Business process automation
- Mixing autonomous agents with deterministic steps

## Use it when

You want several specialized agents with clear roles and tasks, wrapped in deterministic, event-driven workflows in regular Python.

## Skip it if

You are not on Python (it requires Python 3.10 to 3.13). It collects anonymous telemetry by default (disable with OTEL_SDK_DISABLED=true), and the managed control plane, CrewAI AMP, is a separate commercial product.

## Install

Install the CLI with uv:

```sh
uv tool install crewai
```

Source: https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI#readme

## Live signals

Fetched 2026-10-15T05:02:40.237Z (status: ok).

- Repository: crewAIInc/crewAI
- Repository created: 2023-10-27
- Stars: 59,704 (GitHub's count; it cannot be authenticated)
- Stars per day, since repo creation: 55.1 (an average over the repo's life, not a growth rate)
- Forks: 8,728
- Open issues and PRs: 711
- License (GitHub): MIT
- Last push: 2026-10-15
- Latest release: 1.15.28 (2026-10-14)

## Links

- Website: https://crewai.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI
- Install instructions verified at: https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI#readme
- Source for this entry: https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI#readme
- AgentToolDrop page: https://agenttooldrop.com/tools/crewai
- Full catalog (JSON): https://agenttooldrop.com/tools.json