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RAG tools let AI answer questions from your own documents: they parse and chunk the content, index it, retrieve the right passages and pass them to a model, ideally with citations. The paid options range from developer APIs that handle the whole pipeline (Ragie, Pinecone Assistant, Morphik) and document parsing services (LlamaCloud, Unstructured) to enterprise platforms with private deployment (Vectara, Contextual AI, Progress Agentic RAG) and no-code chatbots (CustomGPT). On the open-source side RAGFlow, LightRAG, Serviette and AnythingLLM are complete systems you can self-host, GraphRAG adds knowledge graphs, LlamaIndex and Haystack are frameworks, and Docling and Chonkie handle parsing and chunking. Marks come from vendor pricing pages and project READMEs as of 19 October 2026; nothing was tested hands-on.
Prices and free tiers as checked, dated on each review.
VVectaraEnterprise AI platform for building and deploying managed AI agents with secure deployment options.
free tierRRagieManaged RAG platform for AI agents with real-time indexing and retrieval.
$100free tierLLlamaIndexPlatform for building document AI agents with agentic OCR and workflows.
free tierPPinecone AssistantAPI service for answering complex questions about proprietary data accurately and securely.
$50free tierCContextual AI PlatformEnterprise platform to build, deploy, and manage accurate RAG agents on private data.
free tierUUnstructuredUnstructured is a GenAI data pipeline platform for extracting, transforming, and loading unstructured data.
free tierPProgress Agentic RAGGoverned knowledge layer for AI agents and LLMs.
$700free tierMMorphikAI back-office automation for multi-site senior living and skilled nursing operators.
$59free tierCCustomGPT.aiNo-code platform for building custom AI agents from business content.
$99Free to use. You run it on your own server.
They do this job.
RAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge RAG with Agent capabilities to create a superior context layer for LLMs
★ 92.5kFreeANMintplex-Labs/anything-llmOne program that reads your documents and answers questions about them, with the model running locally if you want.
★ 67.2kFreeSEpathwaycom/servietteA no-code RAG server that keeps answers in sync with your documents. Works with 8 vector databases. Built on Pathway.
★ 58.8kFreeLLrun-llama/llama_indexLlamaIndex is the document processing platform for AI
★ 52.6kFreeHIvectorize-io/hindsightA memory store for AI agents that keeps what matters across sessions instead of replaying the whole history.
★ 49.4kFreeLIHKUDS/LightRAGA retrieval system that builds a network of things and relationships out of documents, then answers questions against it.
★ 40.1kFreeGRmicrosoft/graphragA pipeline that builds a knowledge graph from documents and answers questions from nested cluster summaries.
★ 36.3kFreeHAdeepset-ai/haystackOpen-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.
★ 26.8kFreeCHfeyninc/chonkieFocused text-chunking library — semantic and recursive splitters that respect message boundaries, so subtopics come out clean.
★ 4.7kFreeMOmorphik-org/morphik-coreOpen-source multimodal retrieval engine (Morphik Core)
★ 3.7kFreeREAnswerDotAI/rerankersOne interface in front of every common reranking model, so swapping one for another is a one-word change.
★ 1.6kFreeVIMinishLab/vicinityA small Python library giving one interface over several nearest-neighbour search methods.
★ 351FreeTOTutteInstitute/toponymyA library that writes readable names for groups of text, at every level of a tree.
★ 106FreeA second choice: they cover part of this job or are a building block for it.
A crawler service that turns websites into clean Markdown or structured data.
★ 191kFreeDIlanggenius/difyA self-hosted workbench for building AI applications from a visual canvas, with document search and model switching built in.
★ 158kFreeOPopen-webui/open-webuiA private web page for talking to AI models, with accounts and document upload.
★ 156kFreeLAlangflow-ai/langflowLangflow is a powerful tool for building and deploying AI-powered agents and workflows.
★ 156kFreeLLggml-org/llama.cppA C and C++ library and command-line tool for running language models locally.
★ 132kFreeCRunclecode/crawl4aiA crawler that turns web pages into clean text for a language model.
★ 85.7kFreeDOdocling-project/doclingA document parser that turns PDFs, office files, images and audio into clean structured text.
★ 68.7kFreeLILibreChat-AI/LibreChatEnhanced ChatGPT Clone: Features Agents, MCP, Skills, DeepSeek, Anthropic, AWS, OpenAI, Responses API, Azure, Groq, o1, GPT-5, Mistral, OpenRouter, Vertex AI, Gemini, Artifacts, AI model switching, message search, Code Interpreter, langchain, DALL-E-3, OpenAPI Actions, Functions, Secure Multi-User Auth, Presets, open-source for self-hosting. Active
★ 45.9kFreeFAfacebookresearch/faissA library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors.
★ 41.2kFreeDSstanfordnlp/dspyIt improves the instructions sent to an AI model by measuring the answers instead of guessing.
★ 38.7kFreeONonyx-dot-app/onyxOpen Source AI Platform - AI Chat with advanced features that works with every LLM
★ 32.6kFreeMLmlflow/mlflowThe open source AI engineering platform for agents, LLMs, and ML models. MLflow enables teams of all sizes to debug, evaluate, monitor, and optimize production-quality AI applications while controlling costs and managing access to models and data.
★ 28.4kFreePGpgvector/pgvectorA Postgres extension that adds a vector column type and nearest-neighbour search.
★ 23.3kFreeCOcoze-dev/coze-studioAn AI agent development platform with all-in-one visual tools, simplifying agent creation, debugging, and deployment like never before. Coze your way to AI Agent creation.
★ 21.7kFreeDEconfident-ai/deepevalTests for language-model output, written and run like ordinary unit tests.
★ 18.8kFreeLILibreTranslate/LibreTranslateSelf-hosted machine-translation API — removes the per-character meter from running a bilingual site.
★ 17.1kFreeRAvibrantlabsai/ragasScores how good a retrieval-based AI answer is, so a change can be shown to have helped or hurt.
★ 15.7kFreeLMEleutherAI/lm-evaluation-harnessRuns standard question sets against a language model and reports the scores.
★ 14.3kFreePRmicrosoft/promptflowBuild high-quality LLM apps - from prototyping, testing to production deployment and monitoring.
★ 11.3kFreeOPtraceloop/openllmetryOpen-source observability for your GenAI or LLM application, based on OpenTelemetry
★ 7.5kFreeNENVIDIA/NeMo-GuardrailsPuts rules you write around a language model's input and output, and enforces them before the answer reaches anybody.
★ 7.2kFreeLMlmnr-ai/lmnrLaminar - open-source observability platform purpose-built for AI agents. YC S24.
★ 3.4kFreeCOcheshire-cat-ai/coreA ready-made assistant service with document search, a plugin system and a chat connection included.
★ 3.1kFreePGtimescale/pgvectorscaleA PostgreSQL add-on that makes similarity search work on more data than fits in memory.
★ 3.1kFreeWTsegment-any-text/wtpsplitSplits text into real sentences in 85 languages, even when the writing has no punctuation.
★ 1.4kFreeGEAuriti-Labs/geo-optimizer-skillAn audit that scores how readable and quotable a site is to AI answer engines.
★ 1.1kFreeSEMinishLab/semhashFast removal of near-duplicate text from a dataset.
★ 975FreeEvery paid tool and free repository we compared, marked against the same features.
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| Paid · 9 | Free · 10 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Feature | Vectara | Ragie | LlamaIndex | Pinecone Assistant | Contextual AI Platform | Unstructured | Progress Agentic RAG | Morphik | CustomGPT.ai | infiniflow/ragflow | Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm | microsoft/graphrag | HKUDS/LightRAG | run-llama/llama_index | deepset-ai/haystack | morphik-org/morphik-core | feyninc/chonkie | docling-project/docling | pathwaycom/serviette |
| Starts at | $100K per year (SaaS) | $100 per month (Starter) | Starter: 40K included credits plus pay-as-you-go up to $500 per month | $20 per month flat (Builder) | On-demand, usage-based | $0.015 per page after the first 10,000 | $700 per month (Starter) | $59 per month (2,000 pages) | $99 per month (Standard) | Apache-2.0 | MIT | MIT | MIT | MIT | Apache-2.0 | BSL | MIT | MIT | MIT |
| Ingestion | |||||||||||||||||||
| Document parsingTurns PDFs, Office files and scans into clean text and tables. | |||||||||||||||||||
| ChunkingSplits documents into retrievable pieces. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Retrieval | |||||||||||||||||||
| Hybrid searchCombines keyword and vector search. | |||||||||||||||||||
| RerankingReorders retrieved passages by relevance before answering. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Knowledge graph retrievalBuilds and searches a graph of entities and relations. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Answers | |||||||||||||||||||
| Answers with citationsAnswers point to the source passages they came from. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Ingestion | |||||||||||||||||||
| Data connectorsPulls content from sources such as Google Drive, Notion, S3 or Confluence. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Images, audio or videoIndexes content beyond text. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Deployment | |||||||||||||||||||
| Managed hostingThe vendor runs the service for you. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Self-hosting or VPCRun it on your own servers or in your cloud account. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Local modelsWorks with locally run models, for example through Ollama. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Integration | |||||||||||||||||||
| MCP serverExposes retrieval to AI agents over the Model Context Protocol. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Answers | |||||||||||||||||||
| Agents or agentic retrievalAgents plan multi-step retrieval or act on the results. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Governance | |||||||||||||||||||
| Document access permissionsRespects who may see which documents. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Pricing | |||||||||||||||||||
| Free tierA free plan or free credits to start. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Usage-based pricingPriced per page, credit or query rather than only per seat. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Plan | Price | Billing | Unit | Research allowance | Other limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SaaS | Starting at $100K | Yearly | Per organisation | Context storage based | Managed by Vectara |
| VPC | Starting at $250K | Yearly | Per deployment | Context storage based | One VPC deployment |
| On-prem | Starting at $500K | Yearly | Per deployment | Context storage based | One on-premise deployment |
Checked 2026-10-19 on the pricing page. Prices change; the vendor's page is the final word.
| Plan | Price | Billing | Unit | Research allowance | Other limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Monthly | Per account | Included usage | Try for free |
| Starter | $100 | Monthly | Per account | Pages at $0.02 extra | Audio and video at $0.0067 per minute |
| Pro | $500 | Monthly | Per account | Pages at $0.05 extra (high-resolution) | Storage $0.002 per page per month |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom terms |
Checked 2026-10-19 on the pricing page. Prices change; the vendor's page is the final word.
| Plan | Price | Billing | Unit | Research allowance | Other limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Monthly | Per account | 10K credits | No pay-as-you-go |
| Starter | Not published as a single price | Monthly | Per account | 40K credits | Pay-as-you-go up to $500/mo |
| Pro | Not published as a single price | Monthly | Per account | 400K credits | Pay-as-you-go up to $5,000/mo; limited-time bonus |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom | Enterprise SSO, volume discount |
Checked 2026-10-19 on the pricing page. Prices change; the vendor's page is the final word.
| Plan | Price | Billing | Unit | Research allowance | Other limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Free | Monthly | Per organisation | Limited usage | For trying out |
| Builder | $20 flat | Monthly | Per organisation | Increased limits | Multiple projects and users |
| Standard | $50 minimum usage | Monthly | Per organisation | Pay as you go above minimum | Production |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Custom | Custom | Custom | Bring your own cloud |
Checked 2026-10-19 on the pricing page. Prices change; the vendor's page is the final word.
| Plan | Price | Billing | Unit | Research allowance | Other limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| On-demand | Usage-based | Pay as you go | Per usage | Not published in capture | $25 free credits |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Custom | Custom | Custom | Customer VPC, SAML SSO |
Checked 2026-10-19 on the pricing page. Prices change; the vendor's page is the final word.
| Plan | Price | Billing | Unit | Research allowance | Other limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | — | Per account | 10,000 pages | Start processing |
| Pay-As-You-Go | $0.015 | Usage | Per page | After 10,000 free pages | Multi-tenant SaaS |
| Business | Contact sales | Custom | Custom | Custom | Dedicated instance or VPC |
Checked 2026-10-19 on the pricing page. Prices change; the vendor's page is the final word.
| Plan | Price | Billing | Unit | Research allowance | Other limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $700 | Monthly | Per account | Up to 10,000 tokens per month | AI search and retrieval |
| Pro | $1,925 | Monthly | Per account | 10,000 tokens per month; 100K for first 3 months (offer) | RAG, Q&A, AI Assistant |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | Custom | Custom | Unlimited scalability | On-prem options, Prompt Lab |
Checked 2026-10-19 on the pricing page. Prices change; the vendor's page is the final word.
| Plan | Price | Billing | Unit | Research allowance | Other limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Monthly | Per account | 200 pages | Community support |
| Paid | $59 | Monthly | Per account | 2,000 pages; $0.03 per extra page | All free features |
| Dedicated | $799 | Monthly | Per instance | 10 GB storage; $0.03 per page beyond | Isolated VPC; GPUs at $2.5/hr |
Checked 2026-10-19 on the pricing page. Prices change; the vendor's page is the final word.
| Plan | Price | Billing | Unit | Research allowance | Other limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $99 | Monthly (10% off yearly) | Per account | 1,000 queries per month | 10 agents; 60M words storage |
| Premium | $499 | Monthly (10% off yearly) | Per account | 5,000 queries per month | 25 agents; 300M words storage |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom | Flexible | RBAC, SSO, DPA |
Checked 2026-10-19 on the pricing page. Prices change; the vendor's page is the final word.
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What the research could not settle from the vendors' own pages.
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