# CrewAI vs LlamaIndex

| Attribute | CrewAI | LlamaIndex |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 65.1 (67% (medium)) | 65.1 (69% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 28 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 59,661 | 52,481 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 4,500,329 | 1,685,400 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under MLOps & LLMOps Tools.","source":"https://crewai.com/pricing","question":"What is CrewAI?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"CrewAI is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the MIT licence. Paid editions are also offered: Enterprise, priced on request. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://crewai.com/pricing","question":"Is CrewAI free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"CrewAI supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://crewai.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does CrewAI support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. CrewAI can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://crewai.com/pricing","question":"Can CrewAI be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 19 integrations for CrewAI, including NVIDIA NIM, GitHub, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Arize, Galileo, DataDog and Patronus, plus 11 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://crewai.com/pricing","question":"What does CrewAI integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and HIPAA for CrewAI. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as CrewAI not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://trust.crewai.com","question":"What security certifications does CrewAI have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. CrewAI is published under the MIT licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/joaomdmoura/crewAI","question":"Is CrewAI open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under MLOps & LLMOps Tools.","source":"https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing","question":"What is LlamaIndex?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"LlamaIndex is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the MIT licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $50 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing","question":"Is LlamaIndex free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to LlamaIndex. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing","question":"What platforms does LlamaIndex support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Not fully, on what we have confirmed. LlamaIndex is offered as cloud / SaaS and hybrid, and a hybrid deployment usually means some components can run on your own infrastructure while the rest stays vendor-hosted. We have not confirmed a completely self-hosted option, so check with the vendor if that is a requirement.","source":"https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing","question":"Can LlamaIndex be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 3 integrations for LlamaIndex, including AWS, Microsoft Azure and GitHub. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing","question":"What does LlamaIndex integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for LlamaIndex. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as LlamaIndex not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.llamaindex.ai","question":"What security certifications does LlamaIndex have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"Yes. LlamaIndex is published under the MIT licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index","question":"Is LlamaIndex open source?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"LlamaIndex is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the EU. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing","question":"Where is LlamaIndex available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"role":"platform","evaluation":true,"managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"pricing_model":"commercial_enterprise_platform","self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"otel_compatible":true,"no_train_on_data":"unknown","llm_observability":true,"prompt_management":true,"framework_agnostic":false,"experiment_tracking":true,"architecture_paradigm":"graph_based_cycles","native_observability_and_trace_logging":true,"fault_tolerance_and_llm_retry_mechanisms":true,"native_memory_and_state_persistence_layer":true,"tool_calling_and_function_schema_validation":true,"managed_cloud_runtime_infrastructure_offered":true,"synchronous_and_asynchronous_execution_modes":true,"streaming_output_and_intermediate_step_yielding":true,"dynamic_agent_generation_and_spawning_at_runtime":true}` | `{"role":"framework","evaluation":false,"soc2_type_ii":true,"managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"pricing_model":"commercial_enterprise_platform","self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"otel_compatible":true,"no_train_on_data":"unknown","llm_observability":false,"prompt_management":false,"framework_agnostic":true,"experiment_tracking":false,"mit_or_apache_permissive_oss_license":false,"native_observability_and_trace_logging":true,"fault_tolerance_and_llm_retry_mechanisms":true,"native_memory_and_state_persistence_layer":false,"tool_calling_and_function_schema_validation":true,"managed_cloud_runtime_infrastructure_offered":true,"synchronous_and_asynchronous_execution_modes":true,"streaming_output_and_intermediate_step_yielding":true,"dynamic_agent_generation_and_spawning_at_runtime":true}` |
| integrations.count | 18 | 3 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"NVIDIA NIM"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Arize"},{"name":"Galileo"},{"name":"DataDog"},{"name":"Patronus"},{"name":"IBM Db2"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"LiteLLM"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"E2B"},{"name":"Daytona"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock"},{"name":"Ollama"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Model Context Protocol"},{"name":"SerperDev"},{"name":"Claude","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Gemini","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"DashScope","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"CopilotKit","native":true,"category":"frontend","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Gemini","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"OpenRouter","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Oracle","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"MS Entra","native":true,"category":"identity","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Okta","native":true,"category":"identity","direction":"outbound"}]` | `[{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure"},{"name":"GitHub"}]` |
| language.primary | Python | Python |
| license.spdx | MIT | MIT |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Basic","summary":"Free with 50 monthly executions","features":["Visual editor and AI copilot","GitHub integration","Standard tools and triggers","CrewAI cloud deployment","Usage dashboard","Community support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Limited free tier for building and testing agentic workflows","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"agentic_workflows":"2","workflow_executions_per_month":"50"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing; includes governance, flexible deployment, and dedicated support","features":["Everything in Free, plus:","SSO (MS Entra, Okta)","Role-based access control","PII redaction and policy enforcement","Workload identity","Deploy on CrewAI cloud, customer VPC, or on-premise infrastructure","Enterprise connectors","Private agent and tools repositories","Export as MCP server","Export as UI component","OpenTelemetry tracing","LLM testing and swapping","AI agent training","Guardrails","Human-in-the-loop workflows","Slack/Teams integration","Token usage tracking","Performance metrics and deployment history","LLM management","Automatic scaling","Cron scheduling","45-day implementation onboarding","Engineering and training support"],"description":"Custom enterprise plan with governance, flexible deployment, and dedicated support","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier with 50 monthly executions; Enterprise plan with custom pricing","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://crewai.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T22:37:55.033Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","features":["Basic support","100 users","130+ file formats","80+ languages supported"],"minSeats":100,"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"10,000 credits per month","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"concurrent_parse_jobs":"20","external_data_sources":"1"}},{"free":false,"name":"Starter","features":["Basic support","Multiple parse tiers","Auto Mode with up to 80% savings","Saved parse configs","Advanced table/chart extraction","Structured JSON output"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Up to 400K credits per month","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"concurrent_parse_jobs":"100"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","features":["Priority Slack support","All parsing and extraction capabilities","Extraction agents","Webhooks & API callbacks","Smart result caching"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":500,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"one_time","amount":1000,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"400K credits per month plus 800K one-time bonus","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Pay-as-you-go","features":["Priority Slack support","Flexible credit usage up to $5,000/month"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"credit"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.00125,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Variable usage-based pricing","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","features":["Volume discounts on credits","5x higher rate limits","Enterprise SSO","SaaS or Hybrid cloud deployment","Dedicated account manager","Custom SLAs"],"description":"Custom pricing with dedicated support","contactSales":true}],"summary":"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","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T22:31:28.854Z","startingPrice":{"amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":50,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 1 | 17 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"FedRamp High","status":"active"},{"name":"SAM Certified","status":"active"}]` | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | - | https://www.llamaindex.ai/legal/privacy-notice |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=crewai-clean&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":10,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=llama-index-core&per_page=100","last_12m":1,"max_severity":"CRITICAL"}` |

## Capabilities (MLOps & LLMOps Tools)

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

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T21:47:41.012Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*