CrewAI is an open-source Python framework for building multi-agent systems. Orkeste is a no-code platform where business teams run agents in their own tools, with a person approving the actions that matter.
Agents are briefed in plain language and connected to your tools in a few clicks. The person who knows the process sets it up and adjusts it.
Each agent has its own approval rules. Pending actions wait in one Validations queue, with the full draft to edit, approve or reject.
A monthly credit allowance per plan, from free to €39.99 for 25,000 credits, with a daily and monthly budget per agent.
CrewAI is an open-source Python framework for multi-agent systems. You define agents with roles and goals, give them tasks and group them into crews or flows that run together. Around the framework, CrewAI offers a managed platform for deploying and monitoring them. It is popular with developers who want precise control of how agents reason and hand work to each other.
Flexibility. In code, you can use any model, write any tool and design any orchestration, then run it wherever you want, including on your own servers. For an engineering team building agents into a product, that freedom matters more than setup speed.
Orkeste is built for the people who run the process rather than the people who write code. An agent is a briefing, a set of connectors and approval rules. Swarms chain agents in sequence, in parallel, on conditions or under a manager agent. Every run is kept in the history, and actions you mark as sensitive wait in Validations. Agents can also start on events, and in agentic mode they can use the tools of a remote MCP server. The trade-off is 26 native connectors rather than a library you extend in code, and no self-hosting.
If you have Python developers and need custom agent logic, CrewAI is the better tool. If your team wants agents working in Gmail, HubSpot, Zendesk or Jira next week, with a person approving what goes out, Orkeste gets you there without code.
For business teams that want agents in their tools without code, yes. For developers building custom agent systems in Python, CrewAI is the more flexible choice.
There is no import. A crew usually maps to an Orkeste swarm: one agent per role, each with a briefing and the connectors it needs, rebuilt by hand.
Orkeste plans include a monthly credit allowance: Free with 500 credits, Starter at €9.99 with 5,000, Pro at €39.99 with 25,000 and Business on quote. A run uses from 2 credits with Claude Haiku 5.5 to 235 with Claude Fable 5.1. The CrewAI framework is free and open source; its managed platform has its own plans, which change often, so check crewai.com.
Yes. Some teams prototype custom logic with CrewAI and run day-to-day business agents in Orkeste, or call an Orkeste agent through its API from their own code.