CrewAI vs Bolt.new
Role-playing multi-agent framework — agents that work together
vs. Prompt to full-stack app in your browser — by StackBlitz
Pricing tiers
CrewAI
OSS (MIT)
MIT-licensed Python framework. Free forever.
$0 base (usage-based)
Enterprise
Managed CrewAI Enterprise — deploy + monitor Crews in the cloud. Custom pricing.
Custom
Bolt.new
Free
1M tokens/month. 300K tokens/day cap. Public + private projects. 10MB file uploads. Hosting + unlimited DBs.
Free
Pro
$25/month. Starts at 10M tokens/month, no daily cap. No Bolt branding, 100MB uploads, custom domains, SEO support, image AI edit. Rollover tokens.
$25/mo
Teams
$30/member/month. Centralized billing, team access, private NPM registries, design system knowledge.
$30/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SSO, audit logs, dedicated account manager, 24/7 support.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing oss on CrewAI vs free on Bolt.new.
| Metric | CrewAI | Bolt.new |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
CrewAI · 11 features
- CrewAI Enterprise UI — Managed cloud for deploying + monitoring crews.
- Hierarchical Process — Manager agent delegates to workers.
- Human Input — human_input=True pauses for human review/approval.
- MCP Tool Support — Consume MCP servers as Agent tools.
- Memory — Short-term, long-term, entity memory per Crew/Agent.
- Observability Integrations — Langfuse, LangSmith, AgentOps, OpenLIT.
- Planning Feature — Optional planner agent that plans before task execution.
- Task Guardrails — Validate task output + retry with feedback.
- Testing — Test Crews deterministically with eval metrics.
- Tools — 70+ pre-built tools (search, scrape, file, vision, code exec).
- Training — Train agents from feedback loops.
Bolt.new · 14 features
- Browser Terminal — Real shell in-browser. Run npm install, scripts, etc.
- Deploy to Netlify — One-click deploy to Netlify.
- Deploy to Vercel — One-click deploy to Vercel.
- Design System Knowledge — Team plan: shared design-system context for consistent UI.
- Expo Support — Build React Native/Expo apps too.
- GitHub Export — Push full project to a new GitHub repo.
- Image Input — Upload image/sketch → Bolt generates matching UI.
- Import Existing Project — Upload an existing repo and iterate in Bolt.
- Live Edit + Run — Edit code + hot reload alongside AI agent.
- Private NPM Registries — Team plan: use private packages.
- Prompt to App — Describe app → Bolt scaffolds + codes + runs it in the browser.
- Stripe Integration — Hook up Stripe payments in-chat.
- Supabase Integration — Provision + connect Supabase from chat.
- WebContainer runtime — Node.js + terminal + filesystem running entirely in your browser.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | CrewAI | Bolt.new |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | CrewAI CLI | — |
| SDK | crewai (Python) | — |
| REST | CrewAI Enterprise | — |
| OTHER | — | Bolt Web App, GitHub Export, StackBlitz Sync, WebContainer runtime |
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