CrewAIThe Enterprise Agent Build & Runtime for the work your business runs on

LlamaIndexTurn any document into agent-ready context.

Comparison · AI Agents · weekly run Nov 3

CrewAI vs LlamaIndex

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

CrewAI is the stronger AI pick in AI Agents: it has a visibility score of 17.5 versus 2.2 for LlamaIndex, and ranks ahead in 100% of the answers that name both.

Choose CrewAI if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (17.5 vs 2.2)
AI answers describe it more positively (43% vs 20% positive)
You need a self-hosted or on-premises option
Flat tiers pricing suits your budget better than usage-based

Choose LlamaIndex if…

You need GDPR or HIPAA coverage
Usage-based pricing suits your budget better than flat tiers
Premier choice for RAG-centric agents
Named as a popular agent development framework

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	CrewAI	LlamaIndex
Visibility score	17.5%	2.2%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in AI Agents	#7	#41
Share of voice	4.9%	0.8%
Mentions this run	30	5
Positive in AI answers	43%	20%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

CrewAI 0pp · LlamaIndex 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

CrewAI leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

15%

1.9%

AI Mode

27.6%

4.8%

Perplexity

10%

CrewAILlamaIndex

Head to head in AI answers

2 engine answers name both brands

2CrewAI ranked higher

0LlamaIndex ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	CrewAI	LlamaIndex
What are the best AI Agents tools in 2026?	AI Mode	#2	#7
Compare the leading AI Agents platforms	AI Mode	#3	#5

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	CrewAI	LlamaIndex
Pricing model	Flat tiers	Usage-based
Entry price	Contact sales	Free; paid from $50 / mo
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Deployment	CrewAI cloud, customer VPC on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, or fully on-premises (AMP Factory).	LlamaParse runs as SaaS on a secure cloud tenant, or can be deployed in a customer's private VPC across cloud providers.
Integrations	1000+	—
Compliance	SOC 2 Type II	SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA
Support	Community forum, Dedicated support with Slack/Teams channel, Support contact, On-site support	Community, Basic (email), Priority (Slack Connect), Dedicated
Headquarters	San Francisco, CA	San Francisco, California, United States
Employees	11–50	11–50
Funding	Series B	Strategic minority equity investments (Databricks, KPMG) · $28M raised
Best for	Enabling business and technical teams to build agents while giving platform teams the control to govern them.	Teams in document-heavy industries such as finance, insurance, healthcare and manufacturing that need accurate parsing of complex tables, charts and scanned pages.