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Comparison

CrewAI vs LlamaIndex

No clear leader: LlamaIndex (66.3) and CrewAI (61.7) 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 →LlamaIndex full profile →
Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
CrewAI62
LlamaIndex66
Score
Vioscale score
CrewAI62 / 100high · 76%
LlamaIndex66 / 100high · 75%
Pricing
Free tier
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Model
CrewAIcommercial
LlamaIndexfreemium
Price level
CrewAIlow
LlamaIndexmid
Starting price
CrewAI–
LlamaIndex$50
Transparent
CrewAI✗
LlamaIndex✓
Integrations
Count
CrewAI15
LlamaIndex3
Security
Disclosure policy
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Fedramp
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex–
Gdpr
CrewAI–
LlamaIndex✓
Hipaa
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Soc2
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
CrewAI–
LlamaIndex99.9
Status page
CrewAI✓
LlamaIndex✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
CrewAI0
LlamaIndex0
Github stars
CrewAI57,642
LlamaIndex51,883
Package downloads weekly
CrewAI4,500,329
LlamaIndex1,685,400
Activity
Commits last 30d
CrewAI100
LlamaIndex32
Release
Cadence days
CrewAI1
LlamaIndex12
History
CrewAI20 items
LlamaIndex20 items
License
Spdx
CrewAIMIT
LlamaIndexMIT
Language
Primary
CrewAIPython
LlamaIndexPython
Market
Availability

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

A comprehensive platform combining an open-source Python framework for multi-agent workflows with a managed cloud control plane that adds governance, security, tracing, and deployment capabilities for enterprise production use.

Independently observed

LlamaIndex

LlamaParse is a cloud-based document parsing platform that uses vision language models and intelligent agents to automatically process complex documents—including PDFs, images, and office files—with support for layout detection, multi-modal content, and 80+ languages. It transforms document ingestion workflows with agentic extraction and indexing capabilities.

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 (Basic) with 50 executions/month; Enterprise custom pricing with governance and compliance

  • BasicFree
    • Visual editor and AI copilot
    • GitHub integration
    • 50 workflow executions/month
    • Studio (visual editor)
    • Standard tools and triggers
    • +20 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • All Basic features, plus:
    • Enterprise connectors
    • SSO (MS Entra, Okta)
    • Role-based access control (RBAC)
    • Workload identity
    • +13 more
as of verify ↗

LlamaIndex

from $50/moHybridFree tier

Free tier with 10K monthly credits; pay-as-you-go starting at $50/month. Credit pricing: 1,000 credits = $1.25.

  • FreeFree
    • Basic parsing
    • Up to 130+ file formats
    • File upload only
    • Community support
  • Starter$50/month up to 400K credits
    • Multiple parse tiers (Cost Effective, Agentic, Agentic Plus)
    • Auto Mode smart tier routing
    • Advanced table and chart extraction
    • Structured JSON output
    • Extraction agents
    • +3 more
  • Pro$500/month up to 4M credits
    • All Starter features
    • Classification & splitting
    • Sheets (spreadsheet data extraction)
    • Agents Builder
    • External data sources
    • +3 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Volume discount 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

19 total - 18 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
Independently observed

LlamaIndex

3 total - 2 not shared
  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
Independently observed

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