Comparison

CrewAI vs Ray

On the evidence we track, Ray leads this comparison with a composite score of 71/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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CrewAI65
★Ray71
Score
vioscaleAI score
CrewAI65 / 100medium · 67%
Ray71 / 100medium · 65%
Pricing
Free tier
CrewAI✓
Ray✓
Model
Price level
CrewAIlow
Rayfree
Transparent
CrewAI✓
Ray–
Integrations
Count
CrewAI18
Ray17
Reliability
Status page
CrewAI✓
Ray✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
CrewAI0
Github stars
CrewAI59,661
Package downloads weekly
Activity
Commits last 30d
CrewAI100
Ray100
Release
Cadence days
CrewAI1
Ray18
History
License
Spdx
CrewAIMIT
Language
Primary
CrewAIPython
Market
Availability
Content
Faq

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
RayAgent / RAG framework
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

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

Ray

Leader

Open-source framework for building and scaling distributed ML and Python applications, supporting the full pipeline from data processing and model training to inference and serving with simple APIs.

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 ↗

Ray

Leader
Open source
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✗

Integrations

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

CrewAI

28 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
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • DashScope
  • CopilotKit
  • Google Gemini
  • +4 more
Independently observed

Ray

Leader
27 total
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • AIBrix
  • AReaL
  • Cosmos Curate
  • Daft
  • Data-Juicer
  • DeltaCAT
  • Modin
  • NeMo Curator
  • NeMo-RL
  • OpenRLHF
  • RayDP
  • ROLL
  • SkyRL
  • SLIME
  • Syftr
  • verl
  • vLLM
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure
  • Databricks
  • +3 more
Independently observed
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