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17 tools in the RAG category, filtered to embeddings.

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Pinecone

Featured
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
SC

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
WE

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
LA

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
CH

Chroma

RAG · Hosted vector DB (not an LLM)
8.1

Embedded, developer-friendly vector store for Python.

Freemium· Starter: $0 · Team: $250 · Enterprise: Customprototypingembedded RAG
DV

Databricks Vector Search

RAG · Multi-model (BYO embeddings or Databricks-hosted)
8.1

Managed hybrid vector search that lives inside the Databricks lakehouse and auto-syncs with your source tables.

Enterprise· Standard: $605 · Storage Optimized: $922rag-retrievalhybrid-search
BB

BGE (BAAI General Embedding)

RAG · BGE / bge-m3 / bge-reranker
7.1

Open-source embedding and reranker models from BAAI that anchor a huge share of production RAG stacks.

Free· Free, open-source (MIT-style license); self-hosted inference cost onlysemantic-searchrag-retrieval
PO

PostgresML

RAG · Multi-model (Llama, Mistral, open-source embeddings)
7.1

PostgreSQL extension that runs embeddings, vector search, and LLM inference inside your database.

Freemium· Serverless: From $7.50 per query hour · Dedicated: From $0.60 per instance hour · Enterprise: Custom pricingvector-searchrag
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Rivestack

RAG · OpenAI embeddings (auto-embeddings)
7.1

Managed Postgres with pgvector on dedicated NVMe, pitched as a cheaper RAG backend than Pinecone or Supabase.

Freemium· Free: $0/month · Solo: $29/month · HA Cluster: Starting at $49/node/monthrag-backendvector-search
PR

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
SC

Singlebase Cloud

RAG · Multi-model
7.0

AI-native Firebase alternative bundling document DB, vector DB, auth, storage, and built-in AI services.

Freemium· Free tier available; paid plans scale with usagevector-searchrag-apps
CO

CocoIndex

RAG · Bring-your-own (embeddings + LLM)
6.9

Open-source incremental data framework that keeps RAG indexes and agent context continuously fresh.

Free· Open-source, self-hosted; bring your own infracode-indexingrag-pipelines
CO

Cohere

RAG · Command, Embed, Rerank, Transcribe (proprietary)
6.9

Enterprise-grade LLM platform built for private, secure, and customizable deployment.

Enterprise· Embed 4 Small: $2,500 · Embed 4 Medium: $3,250 · Rerank 3.5 Medium: $3,250 · Rerank 4 Fast Medium: $3,250 · Rerank 4 Pro Medium: $3,250enterprise-ragsemantic-search
AA

AI Anime Finder

RAG

Vibe-based semantic search over the AniList catalogue with watch-time and shareable taste cards.

Free· Free. No account, no sign-up, no per-query limits advertised.next-anime recommendation by moodfinding shows similar to a described vibe
NA

Nomic Atlas

RAG · nomic-embed-text-v1.5, nomic-embed-vision-v1.5 (in-house open-weights); optional integrations with OpenAI, Cohere, and other embedding providers

Interactive maps and embeddings for unstructured text, image, and multimodal data.

Freemium· Starter: Free · Plus: $10/month · Business: $125/seat/month · Enterprise: Custom solutions for security-first organizationsRAG corpus exploration and debuggingEmbedding quality auditing
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Supabase

RAG

Open-source Firebase alternative built on Postgres with a first-class pgvector AI toolkit.

Freemium· Free: $0 · Pro: $25 · Team: $599 · Enterprise: CustomRAG chatbot backendsemantic document search
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Voyage AI

RAG · in-house (voyage-3.5, voyage-4 series, voyage-code-3, voyage-finance-2, voyage-law-2, voyage-multimodal-3.5, voyage-context-3, rerank-2.5)

State-of-the-art embedding models and rerankers purpose-built for retrieval and RAG.

Freemium· Free tier: 200M free text tokens per account for current models (50M for older specialized). Text embeddings $0.00002–$0.00018 per 1K tokens depending on model tier. Rerankers $0.00002–$0.00005 per 1K tokens after 200M free. Multimodal $0.12 per 1M text tokens + $0.60 per 1B pixels. Batch API 33% discount. File storage $0.05/GB/month.Production RAG chatbot over proprietary docsTwo-stage retrieval with embed + rerank