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Cerul alternatives for AI agents.

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Cerul

The video search layer for AI agents. Search video by meaning — across speech, visuals, and on-screen text.

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#1

Anything Llm

Similarity 113Trust 92Excellent 100

Stop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent experience

62K starsJul 1, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptVector Search
$ npx skills add Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm
#2

LightRAG

Similarity 113Trust 92Excellent 100

[EMNLP2025] "LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation"

37K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add HKUDS/LightRAG
#3

Cognee

Similarity 113Trust 92Excellent 100

Cognee is the open-source AI memory platform for agents. Give your AI agents persistent long-term memory across sessions with a self-hosted knowledge graph engine.

27K starsJul 3, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add topoteretes/cognee
#4

PageIndex

Similarity 113Trust 90Excellent 100

📑 PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG

34K starsJun 29, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add VectifyAI/PageIndex
#5

Meilisearch

Similarity 113Trust 87Excellent 100

A lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.

58K starsJul 2, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add meilisearch/meilisearch
#6

Txtai

Similarity 112Trust 93Excellent 100

💡 All-in-one AI framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language model workflows

13K starsJun 22, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSemantic Search
$ npx skills add neuml/txtai
#7

Quickwit

Similarity 112Trust 93Excellent 100

Cloud-native search engine for observability. An open-source alternative to Datadog, Elasticsearch, Loki, and Tempo.

11K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSearch
$ npx skills add quickwit-oss/quickwit
#8

Trilium

Similarity 111Trust 92Excellent 100

Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

37K starsJun 21, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add TriliumNext/Trilium
#9

Manticoresearch

Similarity 111Trust 90Excellent 100

Easy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch | Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK stack

12K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Search
$ npx skills add manticoresoftware/manticoresearch
#10

Cocoindex

Similarity 111Trust 91Excellent 100

Incremental engine for long horizon agents 🌟 Star if you like it!

10K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add cocoindex-io/cocoindex
#11

Understand Anything

Similarity 111Trust 90Excellent 100

Graphs that teach > graphs that impress. Turn any code into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and more.

70K starsJul 3, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything
#12

Deeplake

Similarity 111Trust 89Excellent 100

Deeplake is AI Data Runtime for Agents. It provides serverless postgres with a multimodal datalake, enabling scalable retrieval and training.

9.2K starsMay 21, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeC++Vector Search
$ npx skills add activeloopai/deeplake
#13

Vespa

Similarity 110Trust 89Excellent 100

The AI search platform

7.0K starsJun 20, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaVector Search
$ npx skills add vespa-engine/vespa
#14

Scira

Similarity 109Trust 91Excellent 100

Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you find information on the internet and cites it too. Powered by Vercel AI SDK!

12K starsMar 20, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptSearch
$ npx skills add zaidmukaddam/scira
#15

Orama

Similarity 109Trust 87Excellent 100

🌌 A complete search engine and RAG pipeline in your browser, server or edge network with support for full-text, vector, and hybrid search in less than 2kb.

10K starsJun 30, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptVector Search
$ npx skills add oramasearch/orama
#16

Searxng

Similarity 106Trust 93Excellent 100

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

32K starsJun 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSearch
$ npx skills add searxng/searxng

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