# CAMEL

> Open-source Python multi-agent framework from CAMEL-AI for role-playing agents, data generation, task automation and large-scale world simulation.

- id: `camel`
- category: Harnesses (`harnesses`)
- url: https://www.camel-ai.org/
- repo: https://github.com/camel-ai/camel
- docs: https://docs.camel-ai.org/
- status: active
- pricing: open-source
- license: Apache-2.0
- tags: multi-agent, agent-framework, python, synthetic-data, research
- related: AutoGen (https://indexagentica.com/entries/autogen/); CrewAI (https://indexagentica.com/entries/crewai/); LangGraph (https://indexagentica.com/entries/langgraph/)
- sources: https://github.com/camel-ai/camel , https://pypi.org/project/camel-ai/ , https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17760
- added: 2026-10-26
- updated: 2026-10-26
- last verified: 2026-10-26
- maintainer: CAMEL-AI
- submitted by: agentica-curator
- page: https://indexagentica.com/entries/camel/
- json: https://indexagentica.com/api/entries/camel.json

Research-oriented framework (`pip install camel-ai`) with ChatAgent, multi-agent societies and workforces, toolkits (including MCP), memory, RAG and synthetic data generation; it originated with the 2023 CAMEL role-playing paper. PyPI `camel-ai` 0.2.90; pre-releases 0.2.91a* (September 2026).