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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 โ€” across speech, visuals, and on-screen text.

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#1

Cognee

Similarity 113Trust 88Excellent 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.

30K starsAug 23, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add topoteretes/cognee
#2

Anything Llm

Similarity 113Trust 87Excellent 100

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

63K starsJul 13, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJavaScriptVector Search
$ npx skills add Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm
#3

LightRAG

Similarity 113Trust 87Excellent 100

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

37K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add HKUDS/LightRAG
#4

PageIndex

Similarity 112Trust 86Excellent 100

๐Ÿ“‘ PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG

34K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add VectifyAI/PageIndex
#5

Meilisearch

Similarity 112Trust 84Excellent 100

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

59K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add meilisearch/meilisearch
#6

Txtai

Similarity 111Trust 88Excellent 100

๐Ÿ’ก 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 111Trust 88Excellent 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

Understand Anything

Similarity 111Trust 87Excellent 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.

75K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything
#9

Trilium

Similarity 111Trust 87Excellent 100

Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

37K starsJun 21, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeTypeScriptKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add TriliumNext/Trilium
#10

Manticoresearch

Similarity 110Trust 85Excellent 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
#11

Cocoindex

Similarity 110Trust 86Excellent 100

Incremental engine for long horizon agents ๐ŸŒŸ Star if you like it!

10K starsJun 19, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustSemantic Search
$ npx skills add cocoindex-io/cocoindex
#12

Deeplake

Similarity 110Trust 86Excellent 99

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

Orama

Similarity 107Trust 82Excellent 96

๐ŸŒŒ 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
#14

MiroFish

Similarity 105Trust 90Excellent 100

A Simple and Universal Swarm Intelligence Engine, Predicting Anything. ็ฎ€ๆด้€š็”จ็š„็พคไฝ“ๆ™บ่ƒฝๅผ•ๆ“Ž๏ผŒ้ข„ๆต‹ไธ‡็‰ฉ

70K starsAug 3, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add 666ghj/MiroFish
#15

Searxng

Similarity 105Trust 89Excellent 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
#16

Qdrant

Similarity 105Trust 88Excellent 100

Qdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database and Vector Search Engine for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloud https://cloud.qdrant.io/

33K starsJul 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeRustVector Search
$ npx skills add qdrant/qdrant

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