Alternatives

Haystack alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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Haystack

Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with explicit control over retrieval, routing, memory, and generation. Built for scalable agents, RAG, multimodal applications, semantic search, and conversational systems.

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#1

SurfSense

Similarity 134Trust 90Excellent 100

An open source, privacy focused alternative to NotebookLM for teams with no data limits. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/ejRNvftDp9

15K starsJun 27, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add MODSetter/SurfSense
#2

Awesome Opensource AI

Similarity 131Trust 89Excellent 100

Curated list of the best truly open-source AI projects, models, tools, and infrastructure.

4.6K starsAug 18, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add alvinreal/awesome-opensource-ai
#3

Khoj

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

Your AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.

35K starsJun 24, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add khoj-ai/khoj
#4

Sim

Similarity 127Trust 90Excellent 100

Build, deploy, and orchestrate AI agents. Sim is the central intelligence layer for your AI workforce.

29K starsJul 18, 2026 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add simstudioai/sim
#5

Onyx

Similarity 126Trust 87Excellent 100

Open Source AI Platform - AI Chat with advanced features that works with every LLM

30K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add onyx-dot-app/onyx
#6

Coze Studio

Similarity 126Trust 89Excellent 100

An AI agent development platform with all-in-one visual tools, simplifying agent creation, debugging, and deployment like never before. Coze your way to AI Agent creation.

21K starsApr 20, 2026 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add coze-dev/coze-studio
#7

DB GPT

Similarity 126Trust 88Excellent 100

open-source agentic AI data assistant for the next generation of AI + Data products.

19K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add eosphoros-ai/DB-GPT
#8

Eliza

Similarity 126Trust 88Excellent 100

Open source agentic operating system

19K starsJun 25, 2026 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add elizaOS/eliza
#9

CV

Similarity 126Trust 85Excellent 100

✅(已完结)超级全面的 深度学习 笔记【土堆 Pytorch】【李沐 动手学深度学习】【吴恩达 深度学习】【大飞 大模型Agent】

23K starsJun 30, 2026 pushdataJupyter NotebookRAG
$ npx skills add AccumulateMore/CV
#10

Awesome Llm Apps

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 100

100+ AI Agent & RAG apps you can actually run — clone, customize, ship.

114K starsJun 13, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps
#11

Graphrag

Similarity 119Trust 88Excellent 100

A modular graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system

34K starsJun 18, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add microsoft/graphrag
#12

Llama Index

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 100

LlamaIndex is the leading document agent and OCR platform

50K starsJun 17, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add run-llama/llama_index
#13

Graphiti

Similarity 118Trust 88Excellent 100

Build Real-Time Knowledge Graphs for AI Agents

28K starsJun 20, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add getzep/graphiti
#14

Hello Agents

Similarity 118Trust 85Excellent 100

📚 《从零开始构建智能体》——从零开始的智能体原理与实践教程

59K starsJun 11, 2026 pushdataPythonRAG
$ npx skills add datawhalechina/hello-agents
#15

Flowise

Similarity 118Trust 85Excellent 100

Build AI Agents, Visually

54K starsJun 10, 2026 pushdataTypeScriptRAG
$ npx skills add FlowiseAI/Flowise
#16

Opendataloader Pdf

Similarity 118Trust 87Excellent 100

PDF Parser for AI-ready data. Automate PDF accessibility. Open-source.

26K starsJun 22, 2026 pushdataJavaRAG
$ npx skills add opendataloader-project/opendataloader-pdf

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