Comparison

CrewAI vs Ray

On the evidence we track, Ray leads this comparison with a composite score of 67/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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CrewAI62
Ray67
Score
Vioscale score
CrewAI62 / 100high · 76%updating
Ray67 / 100medium · 68%updating
Pricing
Free tier
CrewAI
Ray
Model
Price level
CrewAIlow
Rayfree
Transparent
CrewAI
Ray
Integrations
Count
CrewAI15
Ray17
Reliability
Status page
CrewAI
Ray
Adoption
Dependent repos
CrewAI0
Github stars
CrewAI57,642
Package downloads weekly
Activity
Commits last 30d
CrewAI100
Ray100
Release
Cadence days
CrewAI1
Ray18
History
License
Spdx
CrewAIMIT
Language
Primary
CrewAIPython
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
Ray-
Deployment
Self-hostable / OSS core
CrewAI
Ray
Managed cloud available
CrewAI
Ray
On-prem / VPC deployment
CrewAI
Ray
Observability
LLM tracing / observability
CrewAI
Ray-
Evaluation (offline / LLM-judge / human)
CrewAI
Ray-
Dev
Prompt management + versioning
CrewAI
Ray-
Tracking
Experiment tracking / model registry
CrewAI
Ray
Serving
Model serving / inference endpoint
CrewAI
Ray
Interop
OpenTelemetry / OpenLLMetry compatible
CrewAI
Ray-
Framework-agnostic
CrewAI
Ray
Gateway
Multi-provider model support
CrewAI
Ray
Data
No-train-on-customer-data guarantee
CrewAIUnknown
Ray-

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

Ray

Leader

Ray is an open-source unified framework for scaling Python and machine learning applications across any infrastructure. It provides distributed compute primitives, specialized AI libraries for data processing, model training, tuning, and serving, with seamless scaling from development environments to large clusters.

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 ↗

Ray

Leader
FreeFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
CrewAI
Ray
CLI
CrewAI
Ray
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
CrewAI
Ray
Self-hosted
CrewAI
Ray
On-premise
CrewAI
Ray
Hybrid
CrewAI
Ray

Integrations

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

CrewAI

19 total
  • NVIDIA NIM
  • GitHub
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Arize
  • Galileo
  • DataDog
  • Patronus
  • IBM Db2
  • OpenTelemetry
  • LiteLLM
  • Anthropic
  • E2B
  • Daytona
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Ollama
  • OpenAI
  • Model Context Protocol
  • SerperDev
Independently observed

Ray

Leader
19 total
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • AIBrix
  • AReaL
  • Cosmos Curate
  • Daft
  • Data-Juicer
  • DeltaCAT
  • Modin
  • NeMo Curator
  • NeMo-RL
  • OpenRLHF
  • RayDP
  • ROLL
  • SkyRL
  • SLIME
  • Syftr
  • verl
  • vLLM
Independently observed

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