The two vendors don't even publish comparable price curves. CrewAI Cloud: Basic is free for ≤50 workflow executions/month and 1 seat; anything above that needs an Enterprise quote CrewAI does not publish. LangGraph Platform (via LangSmith): Developer is free for 1 seat and ≤5,000 base traces/month; Plus is $39/seat/month with 10,000 base traces/month included and roughly $2.50 per 1,000 base traces beyond that.
—LangGraph Platform total / mo
—LangGraph trace overage / mo
—publicly calculable option
Total cost across execution volume — where CrewAI's public pricing runs out
Same team size as above, swept across executions/month. CrewAI shows "Enterprise (custom)" the instant you cross 50 executions/month; LangGraph Platform keeps scaling on a public price.
| Executions/mo | CrewAI Cloud | LangGraph Platform | LangGraph tier |
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⚠️ Estimate using each vendor's published self-serve pricing (verified 2026-08-24), not a live-fetched feed. CrewAI Cloud: Basic (free) ≤50 workflow executions/mo, 1 seat; above that, Enterprise is custom-quoted only — CrewAI does not publish a price, so this calculator cannot show one. LangGraph Platform (LangSmith): Developer (free) ≤1 seat, ≤5,000 base traces/mo; Plus $39/seat/mo, unlimited seats, 10,000 base traces/mo included per workspace plus 1 free small serverless deployment, ~$2.50/1,000 base traces (14-day retention) beyond that; Enterprise custom. Assumes 1 execution ≈ 1 trace. Confirm current tiers on each vendor's pricing page before committing. ·
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Why this isn't a fair fight on price alone
Most "CrewAI vs LangGraph" comparisons treat the two as interchangeable line items in a table, but their 2026 pricing pages describe two structurally different businesses. CrewAI collapsed its pricing to two options earlier in 2026: a free Basic plan capped at 50 workflow executions/month, and a custom Enterprise plan with no published price. The mid-tier plans some older comparison articles still quote — a $29 Starter or $99 Professional tier — were removed from CrewAI's own pricing page; if your workload needs more than 50 executions/month today, the only listed path is a sales call, not a checkout button. LangGraph Platform, priced through LangSmith, kept a public self-serve path the whole way: Developer free for solo use, then Plus at $39/seat/month with metered trace overage once you exceed what's included.
What "publicly calculable" actually means here
This calculator can price LangGraph Platform at any volume because every number in its formula — seat price, included traces, overage rate — is published. It cannot price CrewAI beyond 50 executions/month for the same reason a shopper can't price a car dealership's "call for a quote" trim: the number simply isn't public. That is a real, structural difference worth knowing before you pick a platform to build on, independent of which one actually ends up cheaper once you have a quote in hand — a team that wants to model total cost of ownership without a sales conversation currently can only do that with LangGraph Platform. Pair this with the AI agent framework cost calculator to add back the LLM token spend both platforms sit on top of, or the multi-agent orchestration architecture cost calculator to see how the workflow pattern you choose changes execution count in the first place.
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How this calculator works
This calculator prices two AI agent platforms at your own executions/month and team seats. CrewAI Cloud uses a two-step rule straight from crewai.com/pricing: the free Basic plan covers up to 50 workflow executions/month on 1 seat; the instant you cross that line, the only listed option is a custom-quoted Enterprise plan, so the calculator reports "Enterprise (custom)" rather than inventing a number CrewAI doesn't publish. LangGraph Platform, billed through LangSmith, uses seats × $39 for the Plus tier once you need more than 1 seat or more than 5,000 traces/month, plus max(0, executions − 10,000) / 1,000 × $2.50 for base-retention trace overage beyond the included 10,000 traces/month — if you stay at 1 seat and ≤5,000 executions/month, it's the free Developer tier instead.
The point isn't just "which is cheaper" — at low volume both are free, so that question is trivial. The real finding is which one you can even price yourself. Raise executions/month past 50 and CrewAI's number disappears from this calculator, because it has disappeared from CrewAI's own pricing page too. LangGraph Platform keeps producing a number no matter how high you push executions or seats, because every rate in its formula is public. Use the volume-sweep table to see exactly where that split happens for your own usage pattern.
Frequently asked questions
Does CrewAI still have a paid self-serve tier below Enterprise?
No, not as of mid-2026. CrewAI's pricing page now lists exactly two options: a free Basic plan with 50 workflow executions/month and 1 seat, then a custom-quoted Enterprise plan for anything above that. The mid tiers some older articles still cite (a $29 Starter or $99 Professional plan) were removed from CrewAI's published pricing earlier in 2026 — if you outgrow the 50-execution free tier today, the only listed path is a sales conversation, not a self-serve upgrade.
How does LangGraph Platform pricing actually work?
LangGraph Platform is billed through LangSmith's tiers. Developer is free but capped at 1 seat and 5,000 base traces/month. Plus costs $39 per seat/month with unlimited seats, 10,000 base traces/month included per workspace, and one free small serverless deployment; traces beyond the included amount bill at roughly $2.50 per 1,000 base traces (14-day retention — extended 400-day retention roughly doubles that rate). Enterprise is custom-priced with self-hosted and hybrid deployment options. Unlike CrewAI, there is a real self-serve paid path between the free tier and a sales call.
Which is cheaper, CrewAI or LangGraph Platform?
Below 50 executions/month with a single user, CrewAI's free Basic tier and LangGraph's free Developer tier are both $0, so neither wins outright. The moment you cross 50 executions/month or add a second teammate, CrewAI has no published price at all — you need an Enterprise quote — while LangGraph Platform keeps a public, calculable price (seats × $39 plus trace overage) all the way up. That makes LangGraph Platform the only one of the two you can actually cost out yourself past small-team, low-volume usage; whether it is cheaper in absolute dollars depends entirely on what CrewAI quotes you, which this calculator cannot see.