# CrewAI vs Ollama

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Ollama

| Attribute | CrewAI | Ollama |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 65.1 (67% (medium)) | 73.3 (56% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | 59,661 | 183,171 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 4,500,329 | 2,940,647 |
| 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":"A platform for running open-source language models through CLI, API, or desktop interfaces, with broad integration support for development tools. Provides both private local execution and cloud-hosted inference while maintaining strict data privacy and refusing to train on user inputs. It is indexed under MLOps & LLMOps Tools.","source":"https://ollama.com/pricing","question":"What is Ollama?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Ollama 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 $20 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://ollama.com/pricing","question":"Is Ollama free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Ollama supports the web, Windows, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://ollama.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does Ollama support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Ollama can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://ollama.com/pricing","question":"Can Ollama be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 63 integrations for Ollama, including Claude Code, OpenClaw, OpenCode, Codex, Copilot, Droid, Open WebUI and Onyx, plus 55 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://ollama.com/pricing","question":"What does Ollama integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for Ollama. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Ollama not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://ollama.com/privacy","question":"What security certifications does Ollama have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. Ollama 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/ollama/ollama","question":"Is Ollama open source?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"Ollama is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the EU.","source":"https://ollama.com/pricing","question":"Where is Ollama available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":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. | Ollama enables developers to run open-source language models either on their own computers or through Ollama's cloud infrastructure, with a guarantee that user prompts and responses are never logged, stored, or used for training. Models can run locally without internet (limited by hardware) or in the cloud with no performance constraints. |
| 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":"platform","evaluation":true,"open_source":true,"managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"otel_compatible":true,"gpu_acceleration":true,"no_train_on_data":"yes","llm_observability":true,"prompt_management":true,"framework_agnostic":true,"multi_model_serving":true,"multi_gpu_multi_node":true,"quantization_support":true,"openai_compatible_api":true,"multi_framework_support":true}` |
| integrations.count | 18 | 40,000 |
| 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":"Claude Code"},{"name":"OpenClaw"},{"name":"OpenCode"},{"name":"Codex"},{"name":"Copilot"},{"name":"Droid"},{"name":"Open WebUI"},{"name":"Onyx"},{"name":"LibreChat"},{"name":"Lobe Chat"},{"name":"NextChat"},{"name":"Perplexica"},{"name":"big-AGI"},{"name":"Lollms WebUI"},{"name":"ChatOllama"},{"name":"Bionic GPT"},{"name":"Chatbot UI"},{"name":"Hollama"},{"name":"Chatbox"},{"name":"Ollama RAG Chatbot"},{"name":"Dify.AI"},{"name":"AnythingLLM"},{"name":"Maid"},{"name":"Witsy"},{"name":"Cherry Studio"},{"name":"Ollama App"},{"name":"PyGPT"},{"name":"Alpaca"},{"name":"SwiftChat"},{"name":"Enchanted"},{"name":"RWKV-Runner"},{"name":"Ollama Grid Search"},{"name":"macai"},{"name":"AI Studio"},{"name":"Reins"},{"name":"ConfiChat"},{"name":"LLocal.in"},{"name":"MindMac"},{"name":"Msty"},{"name":"BoltAI for Mac"},{"name":"IntelliBar"},{"name":"Kerlig AI"},{"name":"Hermes Agent"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Discord"},{"name":"Telegram"},{"name":"WhatsApp"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Python"},{"name":"Spring Framework"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"Vercel"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"VS Code"},{"name":"C# / .NET"},{"name":"Julia"},{"name":"Go"},{"name":"Emacs"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Datasette"},{"name":"Stripe"},{"name":"NVIDIA"},{"name":"Google Gemma"},{"name":"Meta Llama"},{"name":"Claude Desktop","native":true},{"name":"ChatGPT Desktop","native":true},{"name":"n8n","native":false,"category":"automation"},{"name":"Spring AI","native":false,"category":"framework"},{"name":"Muse Code","native":false},{"name":"DeepSeek Harness","native":false},{"name":"Claude","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"ChatGPT","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"bidirectional"}]` |
| language.primary | Python | Go |
| license.spdx | MIT | MIT |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":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","summary":"Free","features":["Run models locally","Starter usage credits included","Access to starter models","Add credits to unlock all models","No service fees"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For getting started with open models","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$20/mo or $200/yr billed annually","features":["Everything in Free, plus","$60 of usage credits per month","Access to larger pro models","Run multiple models concurrently","Fast mode (coming soon)"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":200,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For shorter, well-defined day-to-day tasks","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"usage_credits":"$60/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Max","summary":"$100/mo","features":["Everything in Pro, plus","$300 of usage credits per month","Early access to the newest models","10 concurrent requests"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":100,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For power users who run multiple agents simultaneously","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"usage_credits":"$300/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$500/mo","features":["Unlimited users","$1,000 of usage credits per month, shared across the team","Centralized billing and administration","Priority support","Shared projects, skills, and instructions"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":500,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For teams scaling with open models","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"usage_credits":"$1,000/month shared"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Everything in Team, plus","Model access controls","Limit team access to specific models","Set cost budgets for users and API keys","Private Slack channel with dedicated support","Custom security questionnaires"],"description":"For larger teams with volume usage pricing","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free to start; Pro from $20/mo with $60 usage credits; Max at $100/mo with $300 usage credits; Team at $500/mo with shared $1,000 usage credits; Enterprise with custom pricing","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://ollama.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-13T19:31:11.705Z","startingPrice":{"amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":20,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 1 | 2 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"FedRamp High","status":"active"},{"name":"SAM Certified","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| 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":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=nixpkgs&package_name=ollama&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (MLOps & LLMOps Tools)

| Capability | CrewAI | Ollama |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Tool role | End-to-end ML platform | End-to-end ML platform |
| **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 | Yes |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T21:42:33.576Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*