MaxKB alternatives
6 rag tools in the same lane as MaxKB, ranked by editorial score.
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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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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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Quivr
RAG · Multi-model (OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Gemma)
8.4
Open-source RAG framework for building custom AI assistants over your own documents in a few lines of Python.
Free· Open source (pip install quivr-core); pay only for LLM/vector-store usagedocument-qacustom-knowledge-base
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RAGFlow
RAG · Multi-model
8.1
Open-source RAG engine with deep document parsing, hybrid search, and visual agent orchestration.
Freemium· Free tier; Starter $29/mo; Pro $129/mo; Enterprise customdocument-qaenterprise-search
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Agentset
RAG · Multi-model (Claude, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Cohere, Mistral, DeepSeek)
7.3
Production-ready RAG infrastructure with agentic search, citations, and model-agnostic plumbing.
Freemium· Free: $0 · Pro: $49 · Enterprise: Customdocument-qaagentic-search
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WeKnora
RAG · Multi-model
7.2
Tencent's open-source RAG framework that turns raw documents into a queryable knowledge base, ReAct agent, and self-maintaining wiki.
Free· Free, open-source (self-hosted)document-qaenterprise-knowledge-base