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Agents tracked: 157 Downloads (7d): 216M up 9.6% GitHub stars: 4.2M VS Code installs: 145M Releases (7d): 233 Agent pull requests (last week): 940K Updated Oct 6, 2026

CAMEL by CAMEL-AI

Agent frameworks and SDKs #101 overall#24 in categoryOpen source · Apache-2.0
Pulse Score
29 / 100
Rank #101 of 157
Downloads, last 7 days
16.3K
up 33.5% vs previous week
Downloads, last 30 days
52.8K
down 30.9% vs previous 30 days
GitHub stars
17.8K
about +4 a day
Latest release
0.2.90
6mo ago
Price
Free (OSS)
checked Oct 5, 2026

Overview

An open-source multi-agent framework and research community focused on agent societies and large-scale simulation.

CAMEL was downloaded 16.3K times from PyPI in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, up 33.5% on the week before and down 30.9% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 17.8K stars, 173 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 0.2.90, published Mar 22, 2026.

CAMEL usage and attention over time

Downloads per dayPyPI, 7-day average 2,335/day
GitHub starsrunning total 17.8K

Download the raw daily series: camel.csv

Install CAMEL

PyPIpip install camel-ai

These commands use the packages tracked on this page. The vendor may recommend a different installer; see the official documentation.

Key facts

MakerCAMEL-AI
TypeMulti-agent framework
LicenseApache-2.0
InterfacesPython library
Main languagePython
Open issues and PRs529

Pricing

CAMEL is open source and free to use; you pay only for the models and infrastructure it runs on.

, checked Oct 5, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.

Pulse Score breakdown

Adoption27
Community52
Attention—
Momentum19

Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.

What changed: recent CAMEL releases

Full changelog

0.2.90
  • chore: adjust workforce quality check threadhold to 60
  • chore: fix pre-commit error
  • feat: Interleaved thinking for kimi k2 and glm
  • feat: support minimax m2.5 and glm5
  • fix: correct typo 'seperated' to 'separated'
  • chore: update contributing guideline and PR template for AI code rule
0.2.89
  • release: 0289
0.2.87
  • chore: enhance quality chcek prompt
  • temporary fix: eigent 1223
0.2.86
  • feat: enhance hybridbrowsertoolkit to detect page loading better
  • feat: support kimi k2.5
  • feat: Support prompt caching
  • Feat: browser visual pixel mode
  • fix: agent test, remove deprecated claude model
  • feat(runtimes): unify cleanup for all runtimes
0.2.85
  • minor: update broken links for api keys/docs
  • chore: Update model doc and zhipu model
  • fix: ChatAgent memory setter issue
  • Fix:if windowsize==0 will return all the slidingmessages.
  • fix llm guard
  • fix: agentpoolracecondition
0.2.84
  • fix: TypedDict version conflict

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CAMEL FAQ

How much does CAMEL cost?

CAMEL is open source and free to use; you pay only for the models and infrastructure it runs on.

Is CAMEL open source?

Yes. CAMEL is open source, released under the Apache-2.0 license.

How popular is CAMEL?

CAMEL was downloaded 16.3K times from PyPI in the week ending Oct 4, 2026, up 33.5% on the week before and down 30.9% over the last 30 days compared with the 30 before. The GitHub repository has 17.8K stars, 173 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 0.2.90, published Mar 22, 2026.

What is the latest version of CAMEL?

The latest stable release we track is 0.2.90, published on Mar 22, 2026.

What are the alternatives to CAMEL?

The closest alternatives in the same category by Pulse Score are LangChain, LangGraph, AI SDK, Strands Agents.

Where these numbers come from

PyPI: camel-ai. GitHub: camel-ai/camel. See data sources for how each one is collected.