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12 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· Free starter; serverless pay-as-you-go from $0.33/1M readsmanaged vector DBproduction RAG

BGE (BAAI General Embedding)

RAG · BGE / bge-m3 / bge-reranker

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

Cohere

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

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

Enterprise· Free trial API keys; production via usage-based API pricing or enterprise contractsenterprise-ragsemantic-search

Graphiti

RAG · Multi-model

Open-source temporal knowledge graph framework for building agent memory that updates in real time.

Freemium· Open-source (Apache 2.0); managed Zep Cloud sold separatelyagent-memorytemporal-knowledge-graphs

LanceDB

RAG

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

PageIndex

RAG

Vectorless reasoning-based retrieval for long documents, with traceable, auditable answers.

Freemium· Free Try Now tier; enterprise pricing on requestdocument-qalong-pdf-retrieval

PostgresML

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

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

Freemium· Open-source self-host free; managed cloud usage-based with $100 free creditsvector-searchrag

Rivestack

RAG · OpenAI embeddings (auto-embeddings)

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

Freemium· Free shared tier; Solo $15/mo, Starter $35, Growth $59, Scale $99 (EU Central)rag-backendvector-search

Singlebase Cloud

RAG · Multi-model

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

Superduper

RAG · Multi-model

Enterprise AI agent orchestration that brings RAG and agents to your existing data stack without migration.

Enterprise· Free trial on Snowflake Marketplace; enterprise self-hosted pricing on requestin-database-ragagent-orchestration

TurboVec

RAG

Rust-powered vector index with 2-4 bit TurboQuant compression for SIMD-accelerated RAG search.

Free· Free, MIT licensedvector-searchrag

WeKnora

RAG · Multi-model

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