Tools
CrewAI vs Retool
CrewAI or Retool? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In inglese
In short
- Both: Command line, Choice of models, Self-hosted, API, Builds agents and workflows, Traces and evaluates
- Only CrewAI states: Runs commands, Reviews pull requests
CrewAI
CrewAI helps teams build, run, and govern multi-agent workflows through visual tools, code, integrations, and enterprise controls.
Plans
Basic
Free
- Visual editor and AI copilot
- GitHub integration
- 50 workflow executions/month
Enterprise
Price on request
- Everything in Free
- SSO, RBAC, workload identity, PII redaction, and policies
- Deploy on CrewAI cloud, your own VPC, or your own infrastructure
- 45-day onboarding
- Forward deployed engineering and training, available a la carte
Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Runs commands — “The same tool for building locally, testing in staging, and deploying to production.” source
- Reviews pull requests — “reviewing code” source
- Command line — “Unified CLI” source
- Choice of models — “Multi-LLM testing for model swapping at runtime, find the right model for every workflow” source
- Self-hosted — “Deploy on CrewAI cloud, your own VPC, or your own infrastructure” source
- API — “Code-first API built for total control” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Build complex operational agents that automate long horizon work using simple prompt and canvas style builder, intelligently guided by 700k agent workflow patterns.” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Real-time tracing of every LLM call, tool call, and memory read is observable with full cost accounting” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “We maintain a SOC 2 Type 2 certified security program with comprehensive controls across our infrastructure, endpoints, and identity management.” source
- SOC 2 — “We maintain a SOC 2 Type 2 certified security program with comprehensive controls across our infrastructure, endpoints, and identity management.” source
Latest updates
- 1.15.22 (1.15.22)
Added connection aliases, deployment failure reasons, tracing feedback and pause events, platform tools/catalog support, and OpenRouter embeddings.
- 1.15.21 (1.15.21)
Added telemetry for checkpoint runtime and CLI usage.
- 1.15.19 (1.15.19)
Added Clipper integrations, a CEL now() function, run outcome reporting, and an injectable CrewAI Platform tools client.
Retool
Retool lets teams build web and mobile business apps, workflows, agents, and data tools connected to their systems.
Plans
Free
Free
- Unlimited web & mobile apps
- 500 workflow runs/month
- 5GB of database capacity
- 5GB of file storage
- Up to 5 users
- Up to 20 hours/month of Agents
Team
- $10 / mo per builder
- $5 / mo per internal user
- 5,000 workflow runs/month
- Staging resource environment
- App release versions
- Additional Agent hours available
- 1,000 AI credits/month
Business
- $50 / mo per builder
- $15 / mo per internal user
- Audit logging
- Rich permission controls
- Portals and embedded apps
- Unlimited resource environments
- Unlimited modules
- Custom branding
Enterprise
Price on request
- SAML/OpenID Connect SSO, SCIM provisioning
- 2FA enforcement
- Audit logs with streaming
- Source control (Git)
- Unlimited end users
- Enterprise support
Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Command line — “Use our MCP server or CLI to build an app and deploy it here within your governed Retool environment.” source
- Choice of models — “Control parameters like temperature and max iterations of a wide array of model choices” source
- Self-hosted — “Managed cloud or blessed self-hosted, up to custom self-hosted and air-gapped deployment” source
- API — “Full platform APIs, incl. write access and Terraform” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Build with AI agents” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Monitor and track agent behavior” source
Latest updates
- Retool CLI
The Retool CLI is now in public beta for building, managing, and publishing Retool-native React apps from the command line.
- Self-hosted Retool 4.34 and 4.0 stable updates
Stable patches Retool 4.34.4 and 4.0.17 are available with bug fixes and security patches.
- Embed apps in iframes
Apps can now be embedded in other apps, classic apps, and websites using an iframe.