CrewAI alternatives
CrewAI organises agents as crews with roles, goals and tasks, plus Flows. People look for alternatives when they need explicit state and control flow, a different team model, a wider Python range (CrewAI requires >=3.10,<3.14), or human-input features without the paid AMP platform. Data as of 2026-09-30.
- LangGraph: Explicit state graphs with checkpoints, interrupts and time travel, at the cost of building role abstractions yourself. See LangGraph vs CrewAI. (comparison)
- Agno: Teams with a leader in coordinate, route, broadcast or tasks mode, workflows, and the AgentOS runtime that stores sessions and approvals in your database. See CrewAI vs Agno. (comparison)
- AG2: Apache-2.0 framework with a hub-based multi-agent network and MCP, A2A and AG-UI in the package. Its v1.0 API is not compatible with classic
autogencode. - PraisonAI: MIT framework that also runs agent teams sequentially or under a manager, with handoffs and MCP, A2A and AG-UI recorded as yes.
- Swarms: A catalog of structures (sequential, concurrent, graph, hierarchical, group chat) behind one router. Documented human-in-the-loop is thin. See Swarms vs CrewAI. (comparison)
- MetaGPT: A fixed software-company crew (product manager, architect, engineer) driven by an SOP. Maintenance has slowed and our install check of the PyPI release failed.
Facts
| Tool | Type | Languages | License | Pricing | Pattern | MCP | A2A | AG-UI | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CrewAI | Framework | Python | MIT | Open core | Crew / roles | Yes evidence | Yes evidence | Partial evidence | 59,217 |
| LangGraph | Framework | Python | MIT | Open core | Graph | Yes evidence | Yes evidence | Partial evidence | 42,511 |
| Agno | Framework | Python | Apache-2.0 | Open core | Supervisor | Yes evidence | Yes evidence | Yes evidence | 42,396 |
| AG2 | Framework | Python | Apache-2.0 | Unknown | Other | Yes evidence | Yes evidence | Yes evidence | 4,969 |
| PraisonAI | Framework | Python, TypeScript | MIT | Open source, free | Crew / roles | Yes evidence | Yes evidence | Yes evidence | 9,112 |
| Swarms | Framework | Python, Rust | Apache-2.0 | Open core | Other | Yes evidence | Unknown | Unknown | 7,221 |
| MetaGPT | Framework | Python | MIT | Open source, free | Crew / roles | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | 70,700 |
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