CrewAI vs Haystack

Side-by-side comparison of CrewAI and Haystack: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	CrewAI The open platform that accelerates enterprise agent adoption at scale Visit	Haystack The open-source AI framework for production-ready agents, RAG & context engineering Visit
Category	Agent frameworks	Agent frameworks
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	Technical
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider	Multi-LLM (model-agnostic)	Agnostic (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Hugging Face, and more)
Founded	2023
Headquarters	United States	Berlin, Germany
Key strengths	·Used by 63% of the Fortune 500 ·Supports no-code visual editor and code-first Python API ·Role-based multi-agent orchestration with deterministic workflows ·Full observability with real-time LLM/tool call tracing and cost accounting	·Modular, composable pipeline architecture with full transparency and debuggability ·Vendor-agnostic integrations across LLMs, vector stores, and data sources ·Production-ready with Kubernetes support, serializable pipelines, and cloud-agnostic deployment ·Supports advanced RAG, agentic workflows, multimodal AI, and conversational AI