Comparison

CrewAI vs Google Agent Development Kit

On the evidence we track, CrewAI leads this comparison with a composite score of 65/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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★CrewAI65

Google Agent Development Kit58

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	CrewAILeader	Google Agent Development Kit
vioscaleAI score	65 / 100medium · 67%	58 / 100low · 44%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	freemium	open_source
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	free
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	18	22
Security
Certificationssecurity.certifications	FedRamp High, SAM Certified	-
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	-
Fedrampsecurity.fedramp	✓	-
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	-
Soc2security.soc2	✓	-
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=crewai-clean&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=com.google.adk%3Agoogle-adk-kotlin-core-jvm&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	-
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	0	0
Github starsadoption.github_stars	59,661	265
Package downloads weeklyadoption.package_downloads_weekly	4,500,329	-
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	100	100
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	1	12
Historyrelease.history	20 items	15 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	MIT	Apache-2.0
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Python	Kotlin
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide	Available worldwide · HQ US
Content
Faqcontent.faq	7 items	7 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

CrewAI65 / 100medium · 67%

Google Agent Development Kit58 / 100low · 44%

Pricing

Free tier

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit✓

Model

CrewAIfreemium

Google Agent Development Kitopen_source

Price level

CrewAIlow

Google Agent Development Kitfree

Transparent

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit✓

Integrations

Count

CrewAI18

Google Agent Development Kit22

Security

Certifications

CrewAIFedRamp High, SAM Certified

Google Agent Development Kit–

Disclosure policy

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit–

Fedramp

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit–

Hipaa

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit–

Soc2

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit–

Vulnerabilities

CrewAICount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=crewai-clean&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0

Google Agent Development KitCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=maven&package_name=com.google.adk%3Agoogle-adk-kotlin-core-jvm&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0

Reliability

Status page

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit–

Adoption

Dependent repos

CrewAI0

Google Agent Development Kit0

Github stars

CrewAI59,661

Google Agent Development Kit265

Package downloads weekly

CrewAI4,500,329

Google Agent Development Kit–

Activity

Commits last 30d

CrewAI100

Google Agent Development Kit100

Release

Cadence days

CrewAI1

Google Agent Development Kit12

History

CrewAI20 items

Google Agent Development Kit15 items

License

Spdx

CrewAIMIT

Google Agent Development KitApache-2.0

Language

Primary

CrewAIPython

Google Agent Development KitKotlin

Market

Availability

CrewAIAvailable worldwide

Google Agent Development KitAvailable worldwide · HQ US

Content

Faq

CrewAI7 items

Google Agent Development Kit7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for multi agent orchestration. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for Multi Agent Orchestration
Capability	CrewAI	Google Agent Development Kit
Capabilities
Architecture paradigm	Graph based cycles	Graph based cycles
Native memory and state persistence layer	✓	✓
Dynamic agent generation and spawning at runtime	✓	✓
Synchronous and asynchronous execution modes	✓	✓
Tool calling and function schema validation	✓	✓
Streaming output and intermediate step yielding	✓	✓
Fault tolerance and LLM retry mechanisms	✓	✓
Managed cloud runtime infrastructure offered	✓	✓
Native observability and trace logging	✓	✓
SOC2 type ii	-	✗
Mit or apache permissive oss license	-	✓
Pricing model	Commercial enterprise platform	Free open source

Capabilities

Architecture paradigm

CrewAIGraph based cycles

Google Agent Development KitGraph based cycles

Native memory and state persistence layer

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit✓

Dynamic agent generation and spawning at runtime

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit✓

Synchronous and asynchronous execution modes

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit✓

Tool calling and function schema validation

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit✓

Streaming output and intermediate step yielding

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit✓

Fault tolerance and LLM retry mechanisms

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit✓

Managed cloud runtime infrastructure offered

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit✓

Native observability and trace logging

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit✓

SOC2 type ii

CrewAI-

Google Agent Development Kit✗

Mit or apache permissive oss license

CrewAI-

Google Agent Development Kit✓

Pricing model

CrewAICommercial enterprise platform

Google Agent Development KitFree open source

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

CrewAI

Leader

CrewAI is a multi-agent automation framework that provides teams with tools to build complex agent workflows through a visual editor or code. It includes a unified control plane for managing production deployments with real-time tracing, governance policies, multi-LLM support, and deployment options for cloud or on-premises infrastructure.

Independently observed

Google Agent Development Kit

A multi-language agent development framework that enables developers to create production-grade AI agents with built-in tools for orchestration, memory management, code execution, and deployment to cloud or self-hosted infrastructure.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

CrewAI

Leader

HybridFree tier

Free tier with 50 monthly executions; Enterprise plan with custom pricing

BasicFree
- Visual editor and AI copilot
- GitHub integration
- Standard tools and triggers
- CrewAI cloud deployment
- Usage dashboard
- +1 more
EnterpriseContact sales
- Everything in Free, plus:
- SSO (MS Entra, Okta)
- Role-based access control
- PII redaction and policy enforcement
- Workload identity
- +18 more

as of 2026-10-13verify ↗

Google Agent Development Kit

Open sourceFree tier

Free and open-source under Apache 2.0 license

as of 2026-08-21verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	CrewAI	Google Agent Development Kit
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✓
On-premiseDeployment	✓	✗

Platforms

Web

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit✓

CLI

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit✓

Self-hosted

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit✓

On-premise

CrewAI✓

Google Agent Development Kit✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (5)

GitHub
Slack
DataDog
OpenTelemetry
Anthropic

CrewAI

Leader

28 total - 23 not shared

NVIDIA NIM
Microsoft Teams
Arize
Galileo
Patronus
IBM Db2
LiteLLM
E2B
Daytona
AWS Bedrock
Ollama
OpenAI
Model Context Protocol
SerperDev
Claude
Gemini
DashScope
CopilotKit
Google Gemini
OpenRouter
Oracle
MS Entra
Okta

Independently observed

Google Agent Development Kit

52 total - 47 not shared

Google Search
Google Maps
Vertex AI Search
Google Ads
Meta
LinkedIn
TikTok
Aerospike
Firebase
Firestore
Google Workspace
Google Calendar
Salesforce
Figma
Linear
Notion
MongoDB
Milvus
Grafana Cloud
Langfuse
LangSmith
Freeplay
Hugging Face
Postman
+23 more

Independently observed

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