LangChain alternatives
6 rag tools in the same lane as LangChain, ranked by editorial score.
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LlamaIndex
FeaturedRAG · BYO (Claude / GPT / open)
8.7
Data framework for connecting LLMs to your data.
Freemium· Free open-source; LlamaCloud paidRAGdata ingestion
LC
Langchain-Chatchat
RAG · Multi-model (GLM-4, Qwen2, Llama 3, etc. via Xinference/Ollama/LocalAI/FastChat)
7.4
Self-hostable RAG and agent framework that wires LangChain to any local open-source LLM and a knowledge base.
Free· Apache-2.0 open source; self-hosted, infra costs onlyprivate-knowledge-baseoffline-rag
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Haystack
RAG · Multi-model
6.9
Open-source Python framework from deepset for building production RAG pipelines and LLM agents.
Freemium· Open-source free; deepset Enterprise Support and AI Platform via salesragagents
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AnythingLLM
RAG · Multi-model
7.9
Open-source desktop and self-hosted app that turns your documents into a private chat-and-agent workspace.
Freemium· Basic: $50/monthly · Pro: $99/monthly · Enterprise: Contact Usdocument-chatprivate-rag
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RAGs by LlamaIndex
RAG · Multi-model (OpenAI, Anthropic, Replicate, HuggingFace)
7.0
Open-source Streamlit app that builds a custom RAG pipeline from a natural-language brief.
Free· Free, MIT-licensed; bring your own model/API keysnatural-language-rag-builderdocument-qa
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PrivateGPT
RAG · Multi-model (BYO local LLM)
7.0
Production-ready, air-gapped RAG framework for querying your documents with local LLMs.
Freemium· OSS free; Zylon enterprise contract (contact sales)private-ragchat-with-documents