CrewAI vs AutoGen 2026: Honest Comparison

from crewai import Crew, Process, Agent

researcher = Agent(
    role="Researcher",
    goal="Gather incidents and candidate fixes",
    backstory="SRE analyst"
)

writer = Agent(
    role="Writer",
    goal="Produce safe remediation plan",
    backstory="Operations engineer"
)

crew = Crew(
    tasks=[...],
    agents=[researcher, writer],
    manager_llm="gpt-4o",
    process=Process.hierarchical,
    planning=True,
)

result = crew.kickoff()

import asyncio
from autogen_agentchat.agents import AssistantAgent
from autogen_agentchat.conditions import TextMentionTermination
from autogen_agentchat.teams import RoundRobinGroupChat


async def main(model_client):
    primary = AssistantAgent("primary", model_client=model_client)
    critic = AssistantAgent(
        "critic",
        model_client=model_client,
        system_message="Reply APPROVE when the answer is acceptable.",
    )

    team = RoundRobinGroupChat(
        [primary, critic],
        termination_condition=TextMentionTermination("APPROVE"),
        max_turns=8,
    )

    result = await team.run(task="Draft a production rollback checklist")
    print(result)


asyncio.run(main(model_client))

import time

CASES = [
    "incident triage summary",
    "code review on 5 files",
    "research brief from 10 URLs",
]


def run_case(framework_runner, case, iterations=10):
    rows = []
    for i in range(iterations):
        t0 = time.time()
        out = framework_runner(case)
        rows.append(
            {
                "case": case,
                "iteration": i,
                "latency_s": round(time.time() - t0, 3),
                "tokens_in": out["tokens_in"],
                "tokens_out": out["tokens_out"],
                "tool_calls": out["tool_calls"],
                "requires_human": out["requires_human"],
                "failed": out["failed"],
            }
        )
    return rows

version: v1
rules:
  - id: require-approval-prod-action
    when:
      env: production
      side_effect: true
    decision: require_human

  - id: deny-unscoped-external-write
    when:
      destination: external
      scope_validated: false
    decision: deny