Open-source alternatives to Azure AI Search RAG

Azure AI Search RAG in the AI category. These are the open alternatives we recommend looking at.

RAGFlow

RAG engine that ingests documents, searches them and lets language models answer with citations.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
91.6k
Deployment
Docker

LlamaIndex

Framework for connecting your own documents and data to language models, for RAG and agents among other things.

MITPermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
52.4k
Deployment
Library

GraphRAG

Method and library from Microsoft for RAG that builds a knowledge graph from the texts before searching.

MITPermissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
36.2k
Deployment
Library

Haystack

Python framework for building LLM apps as pipelines, with search, RAG and agents.

Apache-2.0Permissive

SaaS: YesClosed product: Yes

GitHub stars
26.6k
Deployment
Library

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