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Each model provider takes its own key from the environment or from the agent's configuration, and the Claude and Gemini CLI providers use an existing local sign-in.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and Apache 2.0, with no paid tier of AgentOS found. You pay your model provider. 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The site footer reads Frame.dev and the licence file reads Copyright (c) 2025 Framers.", "The terms and privacy pages are guidance for a self-hosted open-source package, each last updated on 6 November 2025.", "agentos.sh/.well-known/security.txt and docs.agentos.sh/.well-known/security.txt return 404. 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CrewAI leads on agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "crewai", "name": "CrewAI", "vendor": "CrewAI", "vendorUrl": "https://www.crewai.com", "kind": "framework", "category": "frameworks", "summary": "Python framework for teams of role-playing agents in Crews, plus event-driven Flows for stateful workflows.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crewai", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crewai.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crewai.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crewai.json", "repo": "https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI", "license": "MIT", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "crewai" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "A library. Credentials are for the models and tools you use.", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free and open source. You pay for the model calls it makes. CrewAI AMP hosting has a free tier of 50 executions a month. 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CERT/CC VU#221883 published four CVEs in CrewAI 1.0, remote code execution when the code interpreter fell back from Docker to its Python sandbox (CVE-2026-2275, 9.6, and CVE-2026-2287, 9.8), SSRF in the RAG search tools (CVE-2026-2286, 9.8) and local file read in the JSON loader tool (CVE-2026-2285, 7.5). CrewAI says all are fixed in current releases, removed CodeInterpreterTool and added URL and path validation across 20+ tools. Fixed and documented and six months old, so 1 point each. CVE-2026-37008 (published 2026-09-13, 8.1) describes a ctypes bypass of the same Python sandbox, and we didn't count it twice. https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/221883" ], "verdict": "The mcps field supports MCP integration with static and dynamic tool filters. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crewai-vs-openai-agents-sdk" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crewai-vs-pydantic-ai.json", "title": "CrewAI vs Pydantic AI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crewai-vs-pydantic-ai" } ], "scores": [ { "agentos": 77, "by": 1, "crewai": 78, "edge": "crewai", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "agentos": 92, "by": 18, "crewai": 74, "edge": "agentos", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "agentos": 74, "by": 6, "crewai": 80, "edge": "crewai", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "agentos": 81, "by": 16, "crewai": 65, "edge": "agentos", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "agentos": 60, "by": 20, "crewai": 40, "edge": "agentos", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "agentos": 87, "by": 1, "crewai": 88, "edge": "crewai", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "agentos": 64, "by": 8, "crewai": 72, "edge": "crewai", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "AgentOS scores 75.3 (BB) on agent readiness against CrewAI's 67 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. CrewAI leads on agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do agent frameworks.", "verdicts": { "agentos": "A TypeScript agent framework with typed tools, six multi-agent strategies, checkpointed graphs, approval gates and no telemetry of its own. It is at 0.12.12 after 98 releases in 90 days, two of them breaking on 7 October 2026. No MCP client was found in the package, and code tools an agent writes run in an in-process node:vm context.", "crewai": "The mcps field supports MCP integration with static and dynamic tool filters. Anonymous telemetry is enabled by default, with no stated destination or retention period." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentos-vs-crewai", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentos-vs-crewai.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentos-vs-crewai.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agentos-vs-crewai.min.md" }, "markdown": "AgentOS scores 75.3 (BB) on agent readiness against CrewAI's 67 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. CrewAI leads on agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do agent frameworks.\n\n- AgentOS: grade BB, 75.3/100, rank #46 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agentos.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/agentos.json\n- CrewAI: grade B, 67/100, rank #202 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/crewai.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/crewai.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### AgentOS (BB)\n\nGood for: TypeScript teams that want long-term memory, personas, voice and channel adapters and multi-agent teams in one package, and that will pin versions.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 92 against 74\n- Security \u0026 auth, 81 against 65\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 40\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: Version 0.12.12, with 27 releases on 7 and 8 October 2026 and breaking minors 0.11.0 and 0.12.0 on the same day\n\n### CrewAI (B)\n\nGood for: Multi-agent role-and-task workflows and for teams that want Flows for ordered, stateful steps.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 80 against 74\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 64\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No key needed to call it\n\nWatch for: Anonymous telemetry on by default, with no stated destination or retention\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | AgentOS | CrewAI | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 77 | 78 | CrewAI +1 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 92 | 74 | AgentOS +18 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 80 | CrewAI +6 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 81 | 65 | AgentOS +16 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 40 | AgentOS +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 87 | 88 | CrewAI +1 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 72 | CrewAI +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **75.3 · BB** | **67 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | AgentOS | CrewAI |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent framework | Agent framework |\n| Vendor | Framers Lab, Inc. | CrewAI |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | API key | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-09-28 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-11-06 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-11-06 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |\n| Popularity | 677 stars, 5.3k npm/wk | 59k stars, 552k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**AgentOS.** A TypeScript agent framework with typed tools, six multi-agent strategies, checkpointed graphs, approval gates and no telemetry of its own. It is at 0.12.12 after 98 releases in 90 days, two of them breaking on 7 October 2026. No MCP client was found in the package, and code tools an agent writes run in an in-process node:vm context.\n\n**CrewAI.** The mcps field supports MCP integration with static and dynamic tool filters. Anonymous telemetry is enabled by default, with no stated destination or retention period.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### AgentOS\n\n1. Pin an exact version of @framers/agentos. Feature commits ship as patch releases while it is 0.x, and breaking changes ship as minors\n2. Leave emergentConfig.allowSandboxTools off unless forged code runs through an executor that isolates. The default executor shares the host process\n3. Pass your own ICheckpointStore to compile() for runs that must survive a restart. The default store is in memory\n4. Set hitl.approvals.beforeTool for tools that write, and choose a handler. No approval gate is on by default\n5. Use Node 22 or newer, and set a provider key such as OPENAI_API_KEY or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY. The provider is detected from the environment\n\n### CrewAI\n\n1. Set CREWAI_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=true before the first run\n2. Put MCP keys in headers, not in the URL as the docs' Exa example does\n3. Pin a stable version. Development builds share the crewai name on PyPI\n4. Add a PRE_TOOL_CALL hook for any tool that writes or sends\n5. Check the logs for MCP connection warnings. A failed server doesn't stop the agent\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, AgentOS or CrewAI?\n\nAgentOS scores 75.3 (BB) on agent readiness against CrewAI's 67 (B), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. CrewAI leads on agent ergonomics and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Are AgentOS and CrewAI open source?\n\nYes. AgentOS is open source (Apache-2.0). 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