CrewAI vs Dify
A side-by-side comparison to help you choose between CrewAI and Dify.
| CrewAI | Dify | |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Open-source Python framework and enterprise control plane for building, deploying, and governing multi-agent AI workflows. | Open-source platform for building, deploying, and managing agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and production LLM applications. |
| Category | 自动化 Agent 与集成 | 自动化 Agent 与集成 |
| Pricing | freemium · CrewAI has two public pricing surfaces. The open-source Python framework is MIT-licensed and free to run on your own infrastructure, with separate LLM/API and hosting costs. The CrewAI AMP pricing page currently lists a Basic Free plan with 50 workflow executions per month and an Enterprise Custom plan for scaled production adoption. Basic includes visual building, GitHub integration, templates, tracing, OpenTelemetry, guardrails, human-in-the-loop, workflow chat, usage dashboards, LLM testing, and CrewAI cloud deployment, but caps execution at 50 per month and excludes enterprise connectors, SSO/RBAC, dedicated infrastructure, and dedicated support. Enterprise is custom priced, includes everything in Free, and adds CrewAI or customer/private infrastructure, enterprise connectors, dedicated VPC/NAT/SAM/FedRAMP deployment options, SSO, RBAC, flexible overage, dedicated support, on-site services, training, onboarding, deployment help, and 50 hours of development per month. | freemium · Dify has two public pricing surfaces. Dify Cloud has a free Sandbox plan with 200 message credits, one member, five apps, small knowledge limits, 3,000 trigger events, two triggers per workflow, 30-day logs, and a 5,000 API-rate-limit/month cap. Professional is listed at $59/month or $590/year per workspace and raises usage to 5,000 message credits/month, 3 members, 50 apps, 500 knowledge documents, 5GB storage, 20,000 trigger events/month, unlimited triggers per workflow, unlimited logs, and no Dify API rate limit. Team is listed at $159/month or $1,590/year per workspace and raises usage to 10,000 message credits/month, 50 members, 200 apps, 1,000 knowledge documents, 20GB storage, 1,000 knowledge requests/min, unlimited trigger events, and 5,000 annotations. For self-hosting, Community is free with one workspace and all public-repo core features under Dify's open-source license. Enterprise is custom priced for commercial authorization, multiple workspaces, SSO, advanced security, scalable deployment, official maintenance, and professional support. |
| Rating | 4.3 | 4.4 |
| Features | No code visual editorCLI and API accessRole based agent managementReal time tracing and observabilityAutomated model improvementEnterprise governance controls | Visual drag and drop workflow builderRAG pipeline supportMulti LLM integrationAgentic workflow capabilitiesObservability and monitoringFlexible publishing options |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
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