# CrewAI vs Portkey

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Portkey

| Attribute | CrewAI | Portkey |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 61.7 (76% (high)) | 78.9 (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,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | A unified platform combining an AI gateway, observability dashboards, prompt versioning, governance controls, and guardrails. Enables teams to route requests across LLM providers, monitor costs and performance, securely manage API keys, and deploy production-ready prompts with version control. |
| 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,"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}` | `{"role":"gateway","caching":"semantic","evaluation":true,"open_source":true,"soc2_type_ii":true,"managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"pricing_model":"pay_per_10k_traces","rate_limiting":true,"self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"deployment_model":"managed-SaaS","no_train_on_data":"unknown","routing_strategy":"load-based","llm_observability":true,"prompt_management":true,"architecture_model":"managed_cloud_saas","automatic_failover":true,"framework_agnostic":true,"experiment_tracking":true,"budget_spend_controls":true,"guardrails_moderation":"via-integration","openai_compatible_api":true,"virtual_key_management":true,"request_cost_observability":true,"mit_or_apache_permissive_oss_license":true,"production_ab_testing_of_system_prompts":true,"token_cost_and_latency_waterfall_charts":true,"pii_redaction_and_prompt_content_masking":true,"prompt_playground_and_in_dashboard_replay":true,"multi_step_agentic_workflow_distributed_tracing":true,"user_feedback_score_api_for_thumbs_up_down_tags":true,"native_integration_with_langchain_and_llamaindex":true}` |
| integrations.count | 15 | 1,600 |
| 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":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Google Cloud (Vertex AI, Gemini)"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"Langgraph"},{"name":"CrewAI"},{"name":"Strands Agents"},{"name":"Google ADK"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Google"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Vertex AI"}]` |
| language.primary | Python | - |
| license.spdx | MIT | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"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"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Developer","summary":"Free forever, 10k logs/month","features":["Universal API & Key Management","Routing, Fallbacks, Load Balancing, Retries","3 Prompt Templates with Playground, Versioning, Variables","Logs, Traces, Feedback, Custom Metadata, Filters","Simple Caching","Deterministic Guardrails","Community Support","3 days log retention, 30 days metrics retention"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Free tier for prototyping and testing; not suitable for production workloads","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"recorded_logs":"10k/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Production","summary":"$49/month + $9 per 100k request overage","features":["Universal API, Fallbacks, Load Balancing, Retries","Unlimited Prompt Templates with Playground, API Deployment, Versioning, Variables","Logs, Traces, Feedback, Metadata, Filters, Alerts","LLM & Partner Guardrails","Role-Based Access Control, Service Account API Keys","Simple & Semantic Caching","Production Support","30 days log retention, 90 days metrics retention"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":100000,"unit":"requests"},"kind":"metered","amount":9,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For teams deploying LLM apps to production","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"recorded_logs":"100k/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Custom retention periods for logs and metrics","Advanced Evaluation Templates with custom guardrail hooks","Role-Based Access Control, SSO (Okta), Granular Budget & Rate Limits","Private Cloud Deployment, VPC Hosting, Data Export to Data Lakes","SOC2 Type 2, GDPR, HIPAA compliance certifications","Custom Business Associate Agreements","Data Isolation, Configurable exports to data lakes","Dedicated Onboarding & Priority Support"],"description":"For organizations with complex compliance and high-volume production requirements","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"recorded_logs":"10M+/month"}}],"summary":"Free tier with 10k logs/month. Production at $49/month with usage overages. Enterprise custom pricing for compliance-focused organizations.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://portkey.ai/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T13:46:13.229Z","startingPrice":{"amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":49,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| 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 | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | 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 (MLOps & LLMOps Tools)

| Capability | CrewAI | Portkey |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Tool role | End-to-end ML platform | Model gateway / router |
| **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: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:30:05.296Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*