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CrewAI vs Google Agent Development Kit

A like-for-like, spec-level comparison. Both entries are verified against their docs and repo.

CrewAI

Role-playing multi-agent crews.

  • + Intuitive role-and-task mental model
  • + Fast to prototype multi-agent flows
  • − Less fine-grained control than LangGraph
  • − Can be token-inefficient at scale

Google Agent Development Kit

Google's code-first toolkit for production agents.

  • + First-class Gemini and Google Cloud integration
  • + Built-in evaluation tooling
  • − Optimized for the Google ecosystem
  • − Newer than incumbents
Spec CrewAI Google Agent Development Kit
Role Agent framework Agent framework
Tags agent-framework, library, multi-agent agent-framework, library, orchestration
License MIT Apache-2.0
Open source Yes Yes
Self-hostable Yes Yes
MCP support Yes Yes
Pricing freemium free
Starting price BYOK usage cost BYOK usage cost
Models claude, gpt, gemini, byok gemini, byok
Languages python python
GitHub stars 54.4k 20.3k
Last activity 2026-06-27 2026-06-27