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CrewAI vs OpenHands

A side-by-side look at pricing, capabilities, pros, cons, and our editorial scores.

 
CrewAI
Agents
OpenHands
Agents
TaglinePython framework for multi-agent orchestration.Open-source autonomous coding agent that plans, edits, and ships changes across real codebases.
CategoryAgentsAgents
PricingFreemium· Free open-source core; cloud platform paidFreemium· Free OSS tier; paid Team plan; Enterprise quote
ModelBYO (Claude / GPT / open)Multi-model (Claude, Gemini, GPT/Codex)
Editorial score8.4 / 10—
Use cases
multi-agentorchestrationPython
autonomous-codingpr-reviewbug-fixinglegacy-migrationincident-triage
Pros
  • Clean Python API
  • Strong role/goal abstractions
  • Active community
  • Hosted platform for deployment
  • Fully open source with a large, active GitHub community
  • Model-agnostic — swap Claude, Gemini, GPT/Codex per task
  • Ships enterprise features: RBAC, audit logs, cost controls
  • Real integrations with GitHub, GitLab, Slack, PagerDuty
Cons
  • Production observability still maturing
  • Debugging multi-agent flows is hard
  • Autonomous runs can rack up token spend on big repos
  • Output quality still bounded by the chosen underlying LLM
  • Self-hosting the OSS version has real ops overhead
Websitewww.crewai.comwww.all-hands.dev
Pick CrewAI if
  • ✅ Clean Python API
  • ✅ Strong role/goal abstractions
  • ✅ Active community
  • ✅ Hosted platform for deployment
Pick OpenHands if
  • ✅ Fully open source with a large, active GitHub community
  • ✅ Model-agnostic — swap Claude, Gemini, GPT/Codex per task
  • ✅ Ships enterprise features: RBAC, audit logs, cost controls
  • ✅ Real integrations with GitHub, GitLab, Slack, PagerDuty
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