# CrewAI review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Multi-agent platform to build, run and govern AI agents Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. CrewAI is a platform and open-source framework for building teams of role-based AI agents. The hosted product adds a visual editor, an AI copilot, tracing and deployment, and an enterprise tier with governance controls such as SSO and role-based access. The free plan runs up to 50 workflow executions a month. - **Category:** AI Agents - **Made by:** CrewAI - **Website:** https://crewai.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you build for real: 2 automations and 50 executions a month. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, CrewAI has a free plan. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Basic plan: visual editor and AI copilot, GitHub integration, 2 automations and 50 workflow executions a month. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Basic | $0 | Visual editor, AI copilot, tracing and GitHub integration; 2 automations and a hard cap of 50 executions a month. | | Enterprise | Custom | SSO, RBAC, PII redaction, enterprise connectors, dedicated support, and deployment on CrewAI cloud, a VPC or your own servers. | Read from https://crewai.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with CrewAI before buying. ## Key features - **Visual editor and AI copilot:** A no-code canvas builder, guided by an AI copilot, that can be exported to Python code. - **Role-based agents and workflows:** Agents are given roles, and deterministic workflows control how they hand work to each other. - **Tracing and evaluation:** Tracing of every LLM call, tool call and memory read with cost accounting, plus OpenTelemetry and LLM testing. - **Governance controls:** Human-in-the-loop approval gates, guardrails, and on Enterprise, SSO, role-based access and PII redaction hooks. - **Flexible deployment:** Run on CrewAI cloud; Enterprise adds a dedicated VPC or the customer's own infrastructure. Agents can be exported as an MCP server. ## Good for - Developers who want a free multi-agent framework with a hosted option - Enterprise teams that need agent governance and audit trails - Business teams prototyping agents in a visual editor ## Worth knowing - The pricing page lists only Free and Enterprise; there is no published self-serve paid tier. - The free plan stops at 2 automations and 50 executions a month, with no overage option. - SSO, role-based access, enterprise connectors and dedicated support are Enterprise only. - Enterprise starts with a trial request and a 45-day onboarding, not instant sign-up. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. CrewAI offers a visual editor and AI copilot for multi-agent workflows. The free plan is 2 automations and a hard cap of 50 executions a month. The page lists only Free and Enterprise, and Enterprise starts with a trial request and a 45-day onboarding. - **Value for money: C.** The page lists only Free and a custom Enterprise, with no self-serve paid price to compare. - **Free plan and trial: C.** Free has 2 automations and a hard cap of 50 executions a month, with no overage option. - **Features: C.** Visual editor, role-based agents, tracing and governance, but SSO, RBAC and connectors are Enterprise only. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You design agents, roles and workflows yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, with seven integrations and flexible deployment on Enterprise, including a VPC or your own servers. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from CrewAI's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among AI agents - CrewAI's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 36 of the 101 other AI agents we grade, and level with 24. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 20 of 101) and worst on features (C, above 1). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/ai-agents ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace CrewAI you would be making an AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. CrewAI is open source, so there is a third way: take its code and run it yourself. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: A builder that other people can use without writing code. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: single sign-on and roles and permissions. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with GitHub, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Okta, Microsoft Entra, Arize, Datadog **Tags:** AI agents, Open source, No-code, Workflow automation ## Alternatives - [Langflow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/langflow): Open-source visual builder for AI agents and MCP servers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/crewai-vs-langflow) - [Dify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dify): Open-source platform for building AI agents and agentic workflows. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/crewai-vs-dify) - [Mastra](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mastra): TypeScript framework for building and running AI agents. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/crewai-vs-mastra) - [Relevance AI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/relevance-ai): Low-code platform for building AI agents and multi-agent teams. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/crewai-vs-relevance-ai) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://crewai.com/pricing - https://crewai.com - https://crewai.com/open-source Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/crewai Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).