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12 rag tools in the same lane as Supabase, ranked by editorial score.

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Pinecone

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RAG · Hosted vector DB (not an LLM)
8.8

Managed vector database for production-scale similarity search.

Freemium· Starter: Free · Builder: $20/month flat · Standard: $50/month min. usage · Enterprise: $500/month min. usagemanaged vector DBproduction RAG

LlamaIndex

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RAG · BYO (Claude / GPT / open)
8.7

Data framework for connecting LLMs to your data.

Freemium· Free open-source; LlamaCloud paidRAGdata ingestion

Elasticsearch Vector Search

RAG · BYO embeddings (OpenAI, Cohere, Hugging Face, Mistral, Bedrock, Vertex, Azure) plus Elastic's built-in ELSER sparse model and E5 dense model
8.7

Hybrid vector + keyword search in the enterprise-grade Elasticsearch engine

Freemium· Free self-managed open-source core; Elastic Cloud Serverless usage-based (VCU-priced); Elastic Cloud Hosted from ~$95/mo (Standard) with Gold/Platinum/Enterprise tiers; custom Enterprise pricing.RAG chatbot over enterprise docsHybrid semantic + keyword product search

Snowflake Cortex

RAG · Anthropic Claude, Meta Llama, Mistral Large 2, Snowflake Arctic
8.7

Generative AI and RAG built into the Snowflake data cloud

Enterprise· Standard: Contact sales · Enterprise: Contact sales · Business Critical: Contact sales · Virtual Private Snowflake: Contact salesEnterprise RAG chatbot over governed dataNatural-language SQL for business analysts

DataStax Astra DB

RAG · Bring-your-own embeddings; integrates with OpenAI, Cohere, Hugging Face, Mistral, NVIDIA NIM, and Vertex AI via server-side vectorize
8.6

Serverless vector and document database for production RAG and AI agents

Freemium· Starter: 341 RUs / Month · Extra Small: 1064 RUs / Month · Small: 4257 RUs / Month · Medium: null · Large: nullRAG chatbot over enterprise documentsAgent long-term memory store

MongoDB Atlas Vector Search

RAG · Bring-your-own embeddings (OpenAI, Cohere, open models); native Voyage AI embeddings and rerankers
8.6

Vector search built into the operational database you're already using.

Freemium· Free: $0 · Flex: Up to $30 · Dedicated: Starts at $56.94RAG over enterprise documentsProduct and content recommendation engines

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

Weaviate

RAG · Hosted vector DB (not an LLM)
8.4

Open-source vector DB with hybrid search and modules.

Freemium· Free: $0 · Flex: $45 · Premium: $400self-hosted RAGhybrid search

LangChain

RAG · BYO (any major LLM)
8.3

The broad LLM application framework — chains, agents, retrievers.

Freemium· Free open-source; LangSmith paidgeneral LLM appsRAG

Vanna.ai

RAG · Multi-model (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama)
8.3

Open-source text-to-SQL agent that learns your schema and writes queries against your real warehouse.

Freemium· Explorer: $50 · Team: $500 · Enterprise: Contact salestext-to-sqlnatural-language-bi

Feast

RAG
8.2

Open-source feature store that serves consistent features to ML training and online inference, with RAG vector search built in.

Free· Free, open source (Apache 2.0); self-hostedfeature-storerag-retrieval

LanceDB

RAG
8.2

Open-source multimodal lakehouse and vector database built for AI training and retrieval at petabyte scale.

Freemium· Open-source free; LanceDB Cloud and Enterprise via contact salesvector-searchrag