10 alternatives to crewAI
crewaiinc/crewai — Framework for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents. By fostering collaborative intelligence, CrewAI empowers agents to work together seamlessly, tackling complex tasks. (60,017 stars, MIT, ai, auth, database).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 748 licence-cleared components from crewaiinc/crewai itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lastmile-ai/mcp-agent | 6.7 | Apache-2.0 | 8,572 |
| 2 | arindam200/awesome-ai-apps | 6.0 | MIT | 16,469 |
| 3 | google/adk-python | 6.4 | Apache-2.0 | 21,975 |
| 4 | copilotkit/agno | 4.7 | Apache-2.0 | 42,899 |
| 5 | getzep/graphiti | 7.3 | Apache-2.0 | 32,211 |
| 6 | patchy631/ai-engineering-hub | 5.9 | MIT | 38,412 |
| 7 | greyhaven-ai/autocontext | 6.0 | Apache-2.0 | 1,310 |
| 8 | simonw/llm | 4.4 | Apache-2.0 | 12,673 |
| 9 | mervinpraison/praisonai | 6.1 | MIT | 9,283 |
| 10 | thunderbird/thunderbolt | 6.2 | MPL-2.0 | 4,802 |
The alternatives in detail
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Build effective agents using Model Context Protocol and simple workflow patternsscore 6.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 8,572 stars · 223 components · search them
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A collection of projects showcasing RAG, agents, workflows, and other AI use casesscore 6.0/10 · MIT permissive · 16,469 stars · 658 components · search them
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An open-source, code-first Python toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying sophisticated AI agents with flexibility and control.
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The self-improving agent platform
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Build Real-Time Knowledge Graphs for AI Agents
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In-depth tutorials on LLMs, RAGs and real-world AI agent applications.
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a recursive self-improving harness designed to help your agents (and future iterations of those agents) succeed on any taskscore 6.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,310 stars · 1,910 components · search them
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Access large language models from the command-linescore 4.4/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 12,673 stars · 16 components · search them
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PraisonAI 🦞 — Hire a 24/7 AI Workforce. Stop writing boilerplate and start shipping autonomous self-improving agents that research, plan, code, and execute tasks. Deployed in 5 lines of code with built-in memory, RAG, anscore 6.1/10 · MIT permissive · 9,283 stars · 2,392 components · search them
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AI You Control: Choose your models. Own your data. Eliminate vendor lock-in.score 6.2/10 · MPL-2.0 weak-copyleft · 4,802 stars · 1,364 components · search them
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