AI Agent Builders

Activepieces vs CrewAI

Compare Activepieces and CrewAI side-by-side. See feature differences and pricing in the AI Agent Builders category.

by Activepieces

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Pricing: Free plan with 1,000 credits a month; Plus $20/mo and Team $200/mo billed monthly, less billed yearly; Ultimate by quote; Embed from $36k a year.

Activepieces is an open-source AI agent and workflow automation builder for business and technical teams, run in its cloud or self-hosted on your own servers.

13 /18 features Full profile

CrewAI

by CrewAI

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Pricing: Basic is free with 50 workflow executions a month and 2 automations; Enterprise is quoted on request, with no public price or overage rate.

CrewAI is an enterprise AI agent builder: design agent crews in Crew Studio or Python, then deploy, trace and govern them on CrewAI's cloud or in-house.

15 /18 features Full profile

Feature Comparison

AI Agent Builders features side-by-side

Feature	Activepieces 13/18 features	CrewAI 15/18 features
Visual agent workflow canvas Assemble the agent's steps on a canvas.	Yes	Yes
Custom tool and function definitions Give the agent your own callable functions.	Yes	Yes
Model provider choice per agent Point different agents at different models.	Yes	Yes
Retrieval-augmented knowledge bases Attach documents the agent retrieves from at run time.	Yes	Yes
Multi-agent handoff and delegation One agent passes work to another.	Yes	Yes
Conversation state and checkpointing Resume a long run instead of restarting it.	Yes	Yes
Structured output schema validation Force replies into a schema and reject the rest.	Yes	Yes
Input and output guardrails Filter unsafe or off-policy content on both sides.	No	Yes
Human-in-the-loop approval steps Pause a workflow for a person to approve.	Yes	Yes
Built-in execution tracing See every step, tool call and token inside the builder.	Yes	Yes
Prompt versioning in the builder Change a prompt without redeploying, and roll it back.	No	No
Agent evaluation and test suites Score an agent against fixed cases before release.	No	No
MCP server support Connect tools over the Model Context Protocol.	Yes	Yes
Webhook and event triggers Start an agent from an external event.	Yes	Yes
Code-first SDK Define the agent in code as well as in the interface.	No	Yes
Deploy an agent as an API endpoint Call the finished agent over HTTP.	Yes	Yes
Embeddable agent chat widget Drop the agent into a site or app as a chat surface.	No	No
Self-hosted agent runtime Run the built agents on your own infrastructure.	Yes	Yes
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