GrowthBook vs CrewAI
Open-source feature flags + experimentation — Warehouse Native
vs. Role-playing multi-agent framework — agents that work together
Pricing tiers
GrowthBook
Open Source (Self-Host)
MIT-licensed. Unlimited everything. Community support.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Starter (Free)
Up to 3 users. Unlimited flags + experiments. Warehouse Native included.
Free
Cloud — Pro
$40/user/month. Up to 50 users. Advanced stats, visual A/B editor, CUPED, sequential testing, bandits.
$40/mo
Cloud — Enterprise
Custom. Unlimited users, SSO/SAML, approval flows, data pipelines, exportable audit logs.
Custom
Self-Host Enterprise
Open Source + Enterprise license. Visual A/B editor, advanced metrics, SSO/SAML, approvals, training.
Custom
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
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing oss on GrowthBook vs oss on CrewAI.
| Metric | GrowthBook | CrewAI |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
GrowthBook · 15 features
- Approval Flows — Require reviewer approval on flag changes. Enterprise.
- Audit Logs — Full change history. Exportable on Enterprise.
- Dimensions & Slicing — Break down experiment results by user dimensions.
- Edge SDK Support — Cloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edge, Fastly, Akamai EdgeWorkers, Netlify Edge.
- Experiments — A/B/n with CUPED variance reduction + sequential testing.
- Feature Flags — Boolean + string + number + JSON flags with targeting.
- Feature Reviews (PR-style) — Draft → review → approve flag changes.
- Guardrail Metrics — Auto-monitor key metrics during experiments.
- Metric Catalog — Define + reuse metrics across experiments.
- Multi-Armed Bandits — Adaptive traffic allocation. Pro+.
- Safe Rollouts — Guarded gradual rollouts with automatic rollback.
- SSO / SAML — Enterprise SSO for cloud + self-host EE.
- Sticky Bucketing — User stays in variant even after eligibility changes.
- Visual A/B Test Editor — No-code DOM editor for web experiments. Pro+.
- Warehouse Native — Connect your warehouse + run experiments against your events data.
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.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | GrowthBook | CrewAI |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | CrewAI CLI |
| SDK | Edge SDKs (CF Workers / Lambda@Edge / Fastly / Akamai), growthbook-android, growthbook-flutter, growthbook-go, growthbook-java, growthbook-node, growthbook-php, growthbook-python, growthbook-ruby, growthbook-swift, sdk-javascript, sdk-react | crewai (Python) |
| REST | GrowthBook REST API | CrewAI Enterprise |
| OTHER | Webhooks | — |
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