# Agno vs CrewAI

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Agno

| Attribute | Agno | CrewAI |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 75.1 (36% (low)) | 61.7 (76% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 57,642 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 4,500,329 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An open-source framework and managed platform that enables teams to build, deploy, and manage agent platforms while maintaining full control over data, security, and infrastructure. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"a2a_support":true,"mcp_support":true,"open_source":true,"pricing_model":"open-source-self-host","deployment_model":"library-self-hosted","streaming_output":true,"human_in_the_loop":true,"structured_output":true,"multi_language_sdk":true,"memory_architecture":"persistent","orchestration_model":"multi-agent-hierarchical","architecture_paradigm":"conversational_hierarchy","tool_function_calling":true,"code_execution_sandbox":true,"model_provider_agnostic":true,"mit_or_apache_permissive_oss_license":true,"native_observability_and_trace_logging":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,"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,"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,"dynamic_agent_generation_and_spawning_at_runtime":true}` |
| integrations.count | 100 | 15 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Postgres"},{"name":"Telegram"},{"name":"WhatsApp"},{"name":"Discord"},{"name":"Google Drive"},{"name":"CopilotKit"},{"name":"MCP"},{"name":"Claude Code"},{"name":"Claude Desktop"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"Codex"},{"name":"ChatGPT"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Cloudflare AI Gateway"},{"name":"Railway"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"Fly"},{"name":"Render"},{"name":"Modal"},{"name":"Helm"}]` | `[{"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"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Python |
| license.spdx | - | MIT |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"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":"Free","summary":"Free, open source (Apache-2.0)","features":["Build multi-agent systems","Run agent systems using AgentOS","Local AgentOS Control Plane","Chat with agents, teams and workflows","Session monitoring & metrics","Knowledge & memory management","System evaluations","Pre-built production-ready codebases","Community support and forums","Documentation"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Open source tier for building agent systems locally","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$150/mo with 4 seats, 1 live connection","features":["Everything in Free","Live AgentOS Control Plane","1 live connection included","4 total seats included","Unlimited usage, monitoring, retention","Unlimited knowledge & memories","Unlimited chats"],"minSeats":4,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":150,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Managed platform for production agent systems","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"chats":"unlimited","seats":"4","usage":"unlimited","memories":"unlimited","knowledge":"unlimited","retention":"unlimited","monitoring":"unlimited","live_connections":"1"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing, contact sales","features":["Everything in Pro","Dedicated Slack channel","Dedicated technical lead","Support SLA","Custom SSO and RBAC","Custom agent solutions","Self-hosted Control Plane"],"description":"Custom solution for mission-critical deployments","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Additional seats","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":30,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Additional live connections","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"connection","amount":95,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Free open source, $150/mo Pro plan, custom Enterprise pricing. No hidden fees.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.agno.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T12:47:22.989Z","startingPrice":{"amount":150,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Basic","summary":"Free tier with 50 workflow executions/month and 2 automations","features":["Visual editor and AI copilot","GitHub integration","50 workflow executions/month","Studio (visual editor)","Standard tools and triggers","Private agent repository","Private tools repository","Agentic workflow templates","Export as MCP server","Export as UI component","CrewAI cloud deployment","Tracing and OpenTelemetry","AI agent training","LLM testing","Guardrails","Human-in-the-loop input","Workflow chat (UI, Slack, Teams)","Usage dashboard","Token count and performance metrics","Hallucination scores","Deployment history","LLM management","Automatic scaling","Cron scheduling","Community support"],"description":"Foundation tier for building agentic workflows","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"automations":"2","workflow_executions":"50/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing with enterprise governance, compliance, and dedicated support","features":["All Basic features, plus:","Enterprise connectors","SSO (MS Entra, Okta)","Role-based access control (RBAC)","Workload identity","PII redaction","Policy enforcement","Deployment: CrewAI cloud, dedicated VPC, or customer infrastructure","SAM certified deployment","FedRamp High compliance","Dedicated support","Slack/Teams support","Support contact","On-site training and support","Deployment assistance","Development support","45-day onboarding program","Forward deployed engineering (available a la carte)"],"description":"Enterprise tier with governance, compliance, and infrastructure flexibility","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"automations":"Custom","workflow_executions":"Custom"}}],"summary":"Free tier (Basic) with 50 executions/month; Enterprise custom pricing with governance and compliance","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://crewai.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T09:18:58.239Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | high | low |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":150,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| release.cadence_days | - | 1 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.17","date":"2026-08-20T00:27:23Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.16","date":"2026-08-14T00:08:07Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.15","date":"2026-08-12T01:27:30Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.14","date":"2026-08-08T22:57:37Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.13","date":"2026-08-07T21:13:23Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.12","date":"2026-08-05T22:56:34Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.11","date":"2026-08-05T06:29:59Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.10","date":"2026-07-31T14:57:37Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.9","date":"2026-07-30T05:45:26Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.8","date":"2026-07-28T15:06:04Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.7","date":"2026-07-26T18:20:02Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.7a1","date":"2026-07-26T17:04:25Z","type":"prerelease","version":"1.15.7a1"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.6","date":"2026-07-24T20:30:33Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.5","date":"2026-07-20T16:33:25Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.4","date":"2026-07-17T14:33:30Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.3","date":"2026-07-16T19:43:04Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.3a2","date":"2026-07-16T18:56:12Z","type":"prerelease","version":"1.15.3a2"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.3a1","date":"2026-07-16T17:22:22Z","type":"prerelease","version":"1.15.3a1"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.2","date":"2026-07-08T02:05:22Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.2a2","date":"2026-07-01T22:15:05Z","type":"prerelease","version":"1.15.2a2"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | 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}` |

## Capabilities (Multi Agent Orchestration)

| Capability | Agno | CrewAI |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Architecture paradigm | Conversational hierarchy | Graph based cycles |
| Native memory and state persistence layer | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dynamic agent generation and spawning at runtime | ✓ | ✓ |
| Synchronous and asynchronous execution modes | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tool calling and function schema validation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Streaming output and intermediate step yielding | ✓ | - |
| Fault tolerance and LLM retry mechanisms | - | - |
| Managed cloud runtime infrastructure offered | ✓ | ✓ |
| Native observability and trace logging | ✓ | ✓ |
| SOC2 type ii | - | - |
| Mit or apache permissive oss license | ✓ | - |
| Pricing model | open-source-self-host | Commercial enterprise platform |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:16:14.629Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*