CrewAI
Framework for orchestrating collaborative AI agents to solve complex autonomous tasks.
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How CrewAI is used
CrewAI is a dependency in 3 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 330 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is LangChain (126 projects). Projects that use it most often also use python-dotenv (78.5%), LangChain (73.0%), Pydantic (59.1%).
CrewAI popularity over time
Gid Score 62: downloads 60, use in agent projects 68, GitHub stars 80, downloads trend 24 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with CrewAI
| python-dotenv | 78.5% of CrewAI projects · 8.6× more than average |
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| LangChain | 73.0% of CrewAI projects · 36.0× more than average |
| Pydantic | 59.1% of CrewAI projects · 6.8× more than average |
| OpenAI Python Library | 57.0% of CrewAI projects · 14.4× more than average |
| Requests | 52.1% of CrewAI projects · 7.7× more than average |
| FastAPI | 47.6% of CrewAI projects · 6.4× more than average |
| NumPy | 45.8% of CrewAI projects · 7.8× more than average |
| Uvicorn | 45.2% of CrewAI projects · 5.9× more than average |
From all 330 projects in our scan that use CrewAI, including the dependency samples.
Agent Skills for CrewAI
| crewai-multi-agent from Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs | Multi-agent orchestration framework for autonomous AI collaboration. Use when building teams of specialized agents working together on complex tasks, when you …npx skills add Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLs --skill crewai-multi-agent |
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Skills teach your coding agent how to use CrewAI well. Official means the pack comes from the same GitHub account as CrewAI. Read a skill before installing it: it can include scripts. All Agent Skills
Install
| Package | pip install crewai |
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| Main stacks | Python (328), Next.js (2) |
| Example projects | iniwap/AIWriteX, agulli/atlas-agents, sinanuozdemir/oreilly-ai-agents, kspviswa/local-packet-whisperer, maris205/airsim_agent |
Alternatives to CrewAI
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside CrewAI are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LangChain pypi Framework for composing applications with LLMs through chains and agents. |
88 | 126 (7.8%) | 37.3M | 148K | MIT |
| LangGraph pypi Framework for building stateful, multi-actor applications with LLMs. |
78 | 76 (4.7%) | 12.5M | 43.6K | MIT |
| Pydantic AI pypi AI agent framework built with Pydantic for structured, typed agent development. |
62 | 16 (1.0%) | 1.5M | 20.7K | MIT |
| LlamaIndex pypi Framework to build RAG applications connecting LLMs to your custom data and documents. |
63 | 11 (0.7%) | 644K | 52.6K | MIT |
| Browser Use pypi SDK for AI agents to interact with websites via browser automation. |
54 | 8 (0.5%) | 1.5M | — | MIT |
| Google Agent Development Kit pypi Agent framework from Google for building AI agents. |
64 | 8 (0.5%) | 2.3M | 21.9K | Apache-2.0 |
| smolagents pypi Barebones library for building agents that write Python code to call tools. |
46 | 5 (0.3%) | 113K | — | — |
| Semantic Kernel pypi Microsoft SDK for integrating LLMs with traditional code for AI applications. |
51 | 3 (0.2%) | 73.1K | 28.7K | MIT |
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