Head to head
CrewAI vs AutoGPT
A side-by-side, sourced comparison. Facts come from each vendor’s own materials; scores are our editorial opinion applied by the same rubric to both.
| Dimension | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Basic is free (visual editor, AI copilot, GitHub integration, 50 workflow executions/mo). Enterprise is custom-priced (request a trial); no public figure.source ↗ | Managed cloud: Pro $42.50/mo and Max $272.00/mo (billed annually), with pay-as-you-go credits; no free cloud tier. Self-hosting is free.source ↗ |
| Hosting model | Hybrid — the open-source library is self-hosted via CLI; the Enterprise console offers managed deployment on CrewAI or private infrastructure.source ↗ | Dual — a paid managed cloud, or free self-hosting via Docker Compose.source ↗ |
| Memory & state | A unified Memory class where the LLM infers scope and importance on save; retrieval is ranked by similarity, recency, and importance, defaulting to LanceDB with custom backends supported.source ↗ | Blocks include basic operations (memory management, data structures, file I/O) and agents are file-aware; a deeper persistence model is not documented in primary sources.Unverified |
| MCP support | Nativesource ↗ | Nativesource ↗ |
| Integrations | Connectors including Gmail, Google Drive, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, HubSpot, Slack, and Salesforce, plus tools to call existing CrewAI automations or Amazon Bedrock Agents.source ↗ | Modular "blocks" the site describes as 45+ platforms — Google Workspace, GitHub, HubSpot, Discord, Reddit, X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Firecrawl, Perplexity, and media-generation providers.source ↗ |
| Model providers | Native SDKs for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure, AWS Bedrock, and Snowflake Cortex; many more via LiteLLM (Llama, Mistral, Groq, Ollama, Perplexity, OpenRouter, and others).source ↗ | OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), Mistral, Cohere, DeepSeek, xAI (Grok), Perplexity, Meta Llama, Qwen, Groq, Amazon Nova, and Nous Research.source ↗ |
| Open source | Yessource ↗ | Yessource ↗ |
| Developer experience(opinion) | 4/5 | 3/5 |
| Pricing transparency & value(opinion) | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Scalability(opinion) | 4/5 | 3/5 |
| Memory & state(opinion) | 4/5 | 2/5 |
| Integrations(opinion) | 4/5 | 4/5 |
| MCP nativeness(opinion) | 5/5 | 4/5 |
The balanced view
Editorial opinion, derived from the scorecard above
Where CrewAI scores higher
In our rubric, CrewAI rates ahead on developer experience, scalability, memory & state, mcp nativeness.
Where AutoGPT scores higher
In our rubric, AutoGPT does not rate ahead of CrewAI on any single dimension.
These two serve different needs — read the full dossiers for CrewAI and AutoGPT before deciding. Neither has been hands-on tested by us yet.
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