The best crewAI alternatives

Hands-On-AI-Engineering

Sumanth077/Hands-On-AI-Engineering

A curated collection of practical AI projects implementing OCR systems, RAG, AI agents, and other AI use cases.

Choose Hands-On-AI-Engineering if…

• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need ai-engineering or generative-ai

Shares agents, ai, ai-agents, llms with crewAI.

embabel-agent

embabel/embabel-agent

Agent framework for the JVM. Pronounced Em-BAY-bel /ɛmˈbeɪbəl/

Choose embabel-agent if…

• you would rather work in Kotlin than Python
• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent or agentic-ai

Shares agents, ai, ai-agents, aiagentframework with crewAI.

GenAI_Agents

NirDiamant/GenAI_Agents

50+ tutorials and implementations for Generative AI Agent techniques, from basic conversational bots to complex multi-agent systems.

Choose GenAI_Agents if…

• you would rather work in Jupyter Notebook than Python
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agentic-ai or autonomous-agents

Shares agents, ai, ai-agents, llms with crewAI.

haystack

deepset-ai/haystack

Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.

Choose haystack if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-framework or agentic-ai

Shares agents, ai, ai-agents with crewAI.

omnigent

omnigent-ai/omnigent

Omnigent is an open-source AI agent framework and meta-harness: orchestrate Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Pi, and custom agents — swap harnesses without rewriting, enforce policies and sandboxing, and collaborate in real time from any device.

Choose omnigent if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-framework or agent-governance

Shares agents, ai, ai-agents with crewAI.

harness-sdk

strands-agents/harness-sdk

Build an agent harness and control it end-to-end. Open-source SDK for production AI agents in Python & TypeScript - any model, any cloud.

Choose harness-sdk if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent-framework or agentic

Shares agents, ai, ai-agents with crewAI.

cursor-talk-to-figma-mcp

grab/cursor-talk-to-figma-mcp

TalkToFigma: MCP integration between AI Agent (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex) and Figma, allowing Agentic AI to communicate with Figma for reading designs and modifying them programmatically.

Choose cursor-talk-to-figma-mcp if…

• you would rather work in JavaScript than Python
• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need agent or agentic

Shares ai, ai-agents, llms with crewAI.

Guardrails

NVIDIA-NeMo/Guardrails

NeMo Guardrails is an open-source toolkit for easily adding programmable guardrails to LLM-based conversational systems.

Choose Guardrails if…

• you prefer a smaller, narrower project to a large one
• you specifically need generative-ai or guardrails

Shares agents, llms with crewAI.

langchain

langchain-ai/langchain

The agent engineering platform.

Choose langchain if…

• you want the more widely starred option (148.9k)
• you specifically need anthropic or chatgpt

Shares agents, ai, ai-agents with crewAI.

mem0

mem0ai/mem0

The Memory Layer for AI Agents - Drop-in memory infrastructure for AI agents and apps. Context that persists. Built for production.

Choose mem0 if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you specifically need agentic-memory or agentic-memory-system

Shares agents, ai, ai-agents with crewAI.

langgraph

langchain-ai/langgraph

Build resilient agents.

Choose langgraph if…

• you specifically need chatgpt or deepagents

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agno

agno-agi/agno

Build, run, and manage agent platforms.

Choose agno if…

• Apache License 2.0 suits your use better than MIT License
• you specifically need developer-tools or python

Shares agents, ai, ai-agents with crewAI.