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Comparison

CrewAI vs LlamaIndex

No clear leader: CrewAI (65.1) and LlamaIndex (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.

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CrewAI65
LlamaIndex65
Score
vioscaleAI score
CrewAI65 / 100medium · 67%
LlamaIndex65 / 100medium · 69%
Pricing
Free tier
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Model
CrewAIfreemium
LlamaIndexfreemium
Price level
CrewAIlow
LlamaIndexmid
Starting price
CrewAI–
LlamaIndex$50
Transparent
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Integrations
Count
CrewAI18
LlamaIndex3
Security
Certifications
Disclosure policy
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Fedramp
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex–
Gdpr
CrewAI–
LlamaIndex✓
Hipaa
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Soc2
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
CrewAI–
LlamaIndex99.9
Status page
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
CrewAI0
LlamaIndex0
Github stars
CrewAI59,661
LlamaIndex52,481
Package downloads weekly
CrewAI4,500,329
LlamaIndex1,685,400
Activity
Commits last 30d
CrewAI100
LlamaIndex28
Release
Cadence days
CrewAI1
LlamaIndex17
History
CrewAI20 items
LlamaIndex20 items
License
Spdx
CrewAIMIT
LlamaIndexMIT
Language
Primary
CrewAIPython
LlamaIndexPython
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
CrewAI7 items
LlamaIndex8 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
LlamaIndexAgent / RAG framework
Deployment
Self-hostable / OSS core
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Managed cloud available
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
On-prem / VPC deployment
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Observability
LLM tracing / observability
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✗
Evaluation (offline / LLM-judge / human)
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✗
Dev
Prompt management + versioning
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✗
Tracking
Experiment tracking / model registry
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✗
Serving
Model serving / inference endpoint
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Interop
OpenTelemetry / OpenLLMetry compatible
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Framework-agnostic
CrewAI✗
LlamaIndex✓
Gateway
Multi-provider model support
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Data
No-train-on-customer-data guarantee
CrewAIUnknown
LlamaIndexUnknown

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

LlamaIndex

A platform that uses AI models to parse and extract data from documents across 130+ file formats, supporting complex layouts, multiple languages, and multi-step extraction agents. Optimized for accuracy, cost, and latency at enterprise scale.

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 ↗

LlamaIndex

from $50/moHybridFree tier

Free (10K credits/month), Starter $50/month (400K credits), Pro $500/month (400K + 800K bonus), Pay-as-you-go up to $5,000/month, Enterprise custom

  • FreeFree
    • Basic support
    • 100 users
    • 130+ file formats
    • 80+ languages supported
  • Starter$50/mo
    • Basic support
    • Multiple parse tiers
    • Auto Mode with up to 80% savings
    • Saved parse configs
    • Advanced table/chart extraction
    • +1 more
  • Pro$500/mo + $1000 one-time
    • Priority Slack support
    • All parsing and extraction capabilities
    • Extraction agents
    • Webhooks & API callbacks
    • Smart result caching
  • Pay-as-you-go$0.00 per credit
    • Priority Slack support
    • Flexible credit usage up to $5,000/month
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Volume discounts on credits
    • 5x higher rate limits
    • Enterprise SSO
    • SaaS or Hybrid cloud deployment
    • Dedicated account manager
    • +1 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
CLI
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Self-hosted
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✗
On-premise
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✗
Hybrid
CrewAI✗
LlamaIndex✓

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • GitHub

CrewAI

28 total - 27 not shared
  • NVIDIA NIM
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Arize
  • Galileo
  • DataDog
  • Patronus
  • IBM Db2
  • OpenTelemetry
  • LiteLLM
  • Anthropic
  • E2B
  • Daytona
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Ollama
  • OpenAI
  • Model Context Protocol
  • SerperDev
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • DashScope
  • CopilotKit
  • Google Gemini
  • OpenRouter
  • +3 more
Independently observed

LlamaIndex

3 total - 2 not shared
  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
Independently observed
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CrewAI or LlamaIndex: which one depends on you

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