CrewAI Alternatives
Tools that write single- or multi-agent LLM programs in code, like CrewAI. On GitHub, CrewAI describes itself as: “Framework for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents. By fostering collaborative intelligence, CrewAI empowers agents to work together seamlessly, ta…”. Below are the 14 other open-source tools we track for the same job, ranked by live maintenance data from GitHub.
Short answer: Ranked by our health score from public GitHub data on 18 October 2026, the most actively maintained alternatives to CrewAI are Mastra (100), Pydantic AI (100) and Microsoft Agent Framework (100). CrewAI itself is still actively maintained (health score 97), so switching is a choice, not a necessity.
Should you switch from CrewAI?
CrewAI itself is still actively maintained (health score 97), so switching is a choice, not a necessity. Full CrewAI record
11 maintained alternatives to CrewAI, ranked
| # | Tool | Status | Health | Commits, 91 days | Latest release | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MastraMastra is the modern TypeScript framework for AI-powered applications and agents. | Active | 100 | 4,575 +168% | 16 Oct 2026 | Custom | 28.9k |
| 2 | Pydantic AIHow Python does AI. Agents, realtime voice, image generation, embeddings. Every model, every interface, typed… | Active | 100 | 1,785 +352% | 16 Oct 2026 | MIT | 20.7k |
| 3 | Microsoft Agent FrameworkA framework for building, orchestrating and deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows with support for Py… | Active | 100 | 1,013 +74% | 15 Oct 2026 | MIT | 14.2k |
| 4 | AutoGPTAutoGPT is the vision of accessible AI for everyone, to use and to build on. Our mission is to provide the to… | Active | 100 | 919 +107% | 14 Oct 2026 | Custom | 188k |
| 5 | OpenAI Agents SDKA lightweight, powerful framework for multi-agent workflows | Active | 100 | 760 +175% | 15 Oct 2026 | MIT | 30.1k |
| 6 | Google ADKAn open-source, code-first Python toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents wit… | Active | 95 | 1,520 +157% | 13 Oct 2026 | Apache-2.0 | 21.9k |
| 7 | AgnoBuild, run, and manage agent platforms. | Active | 89 | 339 −39% | 16 Oct 2026 | Apache-2.0 | 42.8k |
| 8 | LangGraphBuild resilient agents. | Active | 83 | 187 −45% | 16 Oct 2026 | MIT | 43.5k |
| 9 | CAMEL🐫 CAMEL: The first and the best multi-agent framework. Finding the Scaling Law of Agents. https://www.camel-a… | Slowing down | 55 | 48 −83% | 22 Mar 2026 | Apache-2.0 | 17.9k |
| 10 | LettaPlatform for stateful agents: AI with advanced memory that can learn and self-improve over time. | Slowing down | 42 | 9 −99% | 14 May 2026 | Apache-2.0 | 25.2k |
| 11 | smolagents🤗 smolagents: a barebones library for agents that think in code. | Slowing down | 39 | 7 −94% | 29 May 2026 | Apache-2.0 | 29.9k |
Ranked by status first, then health score (0 to 100). Commits are counted on each project’s default branch; the percentage compares with the same 91 days a year earlier. Stars are bookmarks, not users.
Also in this group, but stopped or in maintenance
| Tool | Status | Health | Commits, 91 days | Latest release | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutoGenA programming framework for agentic AI | Archived | 0 | 1 −98% | 30 Sep 2025 | CC-BY-4.0 | 61.5k |
| MetaGPT🌟 The Multi-Agent Framework: First AI Software Company, Towards Natural Language Programming | No recent commits | 0 | 0 −100% | 22 Apr 2024 | MIT | 70.9k |
| SuperAGISuperAGI - A dev-first open source autonomous AI agent framework. Enabling developers to build, manage & run… | No recent commits | 0 | 0 | 16 Jan 2024 | MIT | 17.7k |
These projects are archived, in maintenance mode or had no commits in the last 91 days. They may still work, but they are a risky choice for a new project.
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CrewAI alternatives: common questions
What is the best alternative to CrewAI?
No single tool is best for every project. By maintenance signals on 18 October 2026, the highest-ranked actively maintained alternative is Mastra (health score 100, 4,575 commits in the last 91 days). Compare features and the licence before you switch; we have not tested these tools ourselves.
Is CrewAI still maintained?
Yes. As of 18 October 2026, CrewAI received 328 commits in the last 91 days and its latest commit is from 18 October 2026, and no maintenance notice was found. Its health score is 97 out of 100.
Which CrewAI alternatives have a permissive licence?
Among the actively maintained alternatives, these use a permissive licence according to GitHub: Pydantic AI (MIT), Microsoft Agent Framework (MIT), OpenAI Agents SDK (MIT), Google ADK (Apache-2.0), Agno (Apache-2.0), LangGraph (MIT). Always read the licence file itself before commercial use.
How are these alternatives chosen and ranked?
We list the tools we track that do the same job as CrewAI (Agent frameworks for developers). They are ranked by maintenance status first (active, slowing down, stopped) and by our health score second. The score combines commit activity, the trend against last year, the date of the last commit, the last release and merged pull requests, all from GitHub. It does not measure features, speed, quality or security.
How this works: we group tools by the job they do and rank the ones we track with public GitHub data (commits on the default branch, releases, merged pull requests, archived flag, and maintenance notices in the README), refreshed automatically. We have not tested these tools ourselves, so the ranking says how well each project is maintained, not which one has the features you need.