Head to head
LangGraph Platform vs CrewAI
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 | Framework is free (MIT). Managed: Developer $0/seat (up to 5k base traces/mo), Plus $39/seat/mo, Enterprise custom; usage add-ons include deployment runs at $0.005/run.source ↗ | Basic is free (visual editor, AI copilot, GitHub integration, 50 workflow executions/mo). Enterprise is custom-priced (request a trial); no public figure.source ↗ |
| Hosting model | Open-source framework self-hosted on your own infra; managed cloud deployment available; self-hosted and hybrid deployment gated to the Enterprise tier.source ↗ | Hybrid — the open-source library is self-hosted via CLI; the Enterprise console offers managed deployment on CrewAI or private infrastructure.source ↗ |
| Memory & state | Durable execution across restarts and cold starts, persistent checkpoints (payloads up to 25 MB), and semantic search for long-term memory, with per-subagent state isolation via threads.source ↗ | 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 ↗ |
| MCP support | Nativesource ↗ | Nativesource ↗ |
| Integrations | Docs cite 1000+ integrations; tools are consumed as built-ins plus remote (HTTP) and local MCP servers via langchain-mcp-adapters.source ↗ | Connectors including Gmail, Google Drive, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, HubSpot, Slack, and Salesforce, plus tools to call existing CrewAI automations or Amazon Bedrock Agents.source ↗ |
| Model providers | Many via langchain-<provider> packages: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google (Vertex + GenAI), AWS, Ollama, Groq, Azure AI, Mistral, xAI, Cohere, DeepSeek, and more.source ↗ | 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 ↗ |
| Open source | Yessource ↗ | Yessource ↗ |
| Developer experience(opinion) | 4/5 | 4/5 |
| Pricing transparency & value(opinion) | 3/5 | 3/5 |
| Scalability(opinion) | 5/5 | 4/5 |
| Memory & state(opinion) | 5/5 | 4/5 |
| Integrations(opinion) | 5/5 | 4/5 |
| MCP nativeness(opinion) | 4/5 | 5/5 |
The balanced view
Editorial opinion, derived from the scorecard above
Where LangGraph Platform scores higher
In our rubric, LangGraph Platform rates ahead on scalability, memory & state, integrations.
Where CrewAI scores higher
In our rubric, CrewAI rates ahead on mcp nativeness.
These two serve different needs — read the full dossiers for LangGraph Platform and CrewAI before deciding. Neither has been hands-on tested by us yet.
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