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Comparison

CrewAI vs Haystack

No clear leader: Haystack (65.8) and CrewAI (65.1) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

CrewAI full profile →Haystack full profile →
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CrewAI65
Haystack66
Score
vioscaleAI score
CrewAI65 / 100medium · 67%
Haystack66 / 100medium · 68%
Pricing
Free tier
CrewAI✓
Haystack✓
Model
CrewAIfreemium
Haystackfreemium
Price level
CrewAIlow
Haystacklow
Transparent
CrewAI✓
Haystack✗
Integrations
Count
CrewAI18
Haystack9
Security
Certifications
Disclosure policy
CrewAI✓
Haystack–
Fedramp
CrewAI✓
Haystack–
Hipaa
CrewAI✓
Haystack–
Scorecard
CrewAI–
Haystack9.4
Soc2
CrewAI✓
Haystack–
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Status page
CrewAI✓
Haystack–
Adoption
Dependent repos
CrewAI0
Haystack237
Github stars
CrewAI59,661
Haystack26,738
Package downloads weekly
CrewAI4,500,329
Haystack121,930
Activity
Commits last 30d
CrewAI100
Haystack100
Release
Cadence days
CrewAI1
Haystack2
History
CrewAI20 items
Haystack20 items
License
Spdx
CrewAIMIT
HaystackApache-2.0
Language
Primary
CrewAIPython
HaystackPython
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
CrewAI7 items
Haystack6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for mlops & llmops tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Tool role
CrewAIEnd-to-end ML platform
HaystackEnd-to-end ML platform
Deployment
Self-hostable / OSS core
CrewAI✓
Haystack✓
Managed cloud available
CrewAI✓
Haystack✓
On-prem / VPC deployment
CrewAI✓
Haystack✓
Observability
LLM tracing / observability
CrewAI✓
Haystack✓
Evaluation (offline / LLM-judge / human)
CrewAI✓
Haystack✓
Dev
Prompt management + versioning
CrewAI✓
Haystack✓
Tracking
Experiment tracking / model registry
CrewAI✓
Haystack-
Serving
Model serving / inference endpoint
CrewAI✓
Haystack✓
Interop
OpenTelemetry / OpenLLMetry compatible
CrewAI✓
Haystack✓
Framework-agnostic
CrewAI✗
Haystack✓
Gateway
Multi-provider model support
CrewAI✓
Haystack✓
Data
No-train-on-customer-data guarantee
CrewAIUnknown
HaystackUnknown

What each one is

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

CrewAI

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

Haystack

A Python-based orchestration framework for building production-ready AI applications with modular pipelines, agent workflows, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Provides explicit control over retrieval, reasoning, memory, tools, and generation components, supporting everything from simple semantic search to complex multi-step agent systems.

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

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 verify ↗

Haystack

HybridFree tier

Free open-source core with paid enterprise support available

  • Open SourceFree
  • EnterpriseContact sales
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
CrewAI✓
Haystack✓
CLI
CrewAI✓
Haystack✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
CrewAI✓
Haystack✓
Self-hosted
CrewAI✓
Haystack✓
On-premise
CrewAI✓
Haystack✓

Integrations

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

In common (7)
  • DataDog
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Anthropic
  • AWS Bedrock
  • OpenAI
  • SerperDev
  • Claude

CrewAI

28 total - 21 not shared
  • NVIDIA NIM
  • GitHub
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Arize
  • Galileo
  • Patronus
  • IBM Db2
  • LiteLLM
  • E2B
  • Daytona
  • Ollama
  • Model Context Protocol
  • Gemini
  • DashScope
  • CopilotKit
  • Google Gemini
  • OpenRouter
  • Oracle
  • MS Entra
  • Okta
Independently observed

Haystack

28 total - 21 not shared
  • Mistral
  • Hugging Face
  • Weaviate
  • Pinecone
  • Elasticsearch
  • AstraDB
  • Apify
  • ReadMe
  • Azure OpenAI
  • SearchApi
  • Cohere
  • FAISS
  • AWS SageMaker
  • OpenSearch
  • Google Colab
  • MCP servers
  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Amazon S3
  • Meta
  • Stability AI
  • AI21 Labs
Independently observed
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CrewAI or Haystack: which one depends on you

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Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.