Cognee alternatives
12 rag tools in the same lane as Cognee, ranked by editorial score.
AgentMemory
Open-source persistent memory runtime for AI coding agents, with hybrid retrieval and zero external dependencies.
Graphiti
Open-source temporal knowledge graph framework for building agent memory that updates in real time.
Recall
AI-powered personal knowledge base that summarizes, links, and quizzes you on everything you save.
LanceDB
Open-source multimodal lakehouse and vector database built for AI training and retrieval at petabyte scale.
LlamaIndex
FeaturedData framework for connecting LLMs to your data.
Modal
Serverless GPUs and infra for training & serving ML.
LangChain
The broad LLM application framework — chains, agents, retrievers.
Llama
Meta's open-weight LLM family covering 1B mobile models up to 405B frontier and natively multimodal 10M-context Llama 4 variants.
Qwen
Alibaba's open-weight foundation model family covering chat, vision, image generation, translation, and safety classification.
ChatGPT
OpenAI's flagship conversational assistant, and the default benchmark every other chatbot is measured against.
Playground
Multi-model AI image generator wrapped in a template-driven design studio and print-on-demand pipeline.
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Open-source, self-hostable VS Code/JetBrains AI assistant.