CrewAI vs Deep Agents

CrewAI and Deep Agents are both agent frameworks. CrewAI is published by CrewAI and Deep Agents by LangChain. On GitHub, CrewAI has 60,066 stars and Deep Agents has 30,550. Both were last active in Oct 2026. The table lines up where they differ (publisher, weekly downloads and languages) and has the install commands for both. Everything here comes from the listings' public sources and is refreshed daily. CrewAI describes itself as: Open-source Python framework for multi-agent workflows, with role-based Crews and event-driven Flows. Deep Agents: Opinionated agent harness on LangGraph with sub-agents, filesystem access, context management, persistent memory and approval of tool calls. Licenses: CrewAI MIT, Deep Agents MIT.