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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

CrewAI vs AutoGen

CrewAI (CrewAI) and AutoGen (Microsoft) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.

CrewAI has 6.9x the weekly package downloads of AutoGen (611K against 89K). CrewAI and AutoGen are close on GitHub stars (59.4K and 61.3K). CrewAI shipped 22 stable releases in the past 90 days.

Side-by-side numbers

Metric CrewAIAutoGen
Pulse Score5239
Overall rank#33#69
Downloads, last 7 days611K89K
Downloads, 7-day changeup 7.2%up 0.4%
Downloads, 30-day change—down 54.7%
VS Code installs——
Marketplace rating——
GitHub stars59.4K61.3K
Homebrew installs, 30 days——
Hacker News mentions, 30 days924
Latest stable release1.15.23 · 8d ago0.7.5 · 12mo ago
Stable releases, 90 days220
Terminal-Bench (best run)——
PriceFree (OSS)Free (OSS)
LicenseMITMIT
First released——
InterfacesPython libraryPython library, .NET library
Models

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CrewAI

A Python framework for orchestrating teams of role-playing agents (crews) and event-driven workflows (flows).

Pricing: The CrewAI framework is open source and free. The company also sells a hosted platform with paid plans, which is separate from the library.

Latest release 1.15.23:

  • Add support for native Gemini 3.8 Flash
  • Implement evaluation of the last traced run through AMP in crewai eval
  • Record the last traced run for crewai eval instead of printing it
  • Improve platform integration setup UX

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AutoGen

Microsoft's open-source framework for multi-agent conversations and event-driven agent systems.

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

Latest release 0.7.5:

  • Fix docs dotnet core typo
  • Fix loading streaming Bedrock response with tool usage with empty argument
  • Support linear memory in RedisMemory
  • Fix message ID for correlation between streaming chunks and final mes…

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