Alternatives

Advanced RAG alternatives for AI agents.

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Advanced RAG

Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) through practical notebooks, using the power of the Langchain, OpenAI GPTs ,META LLAMA3 , Agents.

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#1

LightRAG

Similarity 129Trust 88Excellent 100

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

37K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add HKUDS/LightRAG
#2

Generative AI For Beginners

Similarity 127Trust 88Excellent 100

21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI

112K starsJun 21, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookSemantic Search
$ npx skills add microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners
#3

RAG Techniques

Similarity 126Trust 86Excellent 100

This repository showcases various advanced techniques for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. Each technique has a detailed notebook tutorial.

28K starsJun 17, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeJupyter NotebookSemantic Search
$ npx skills add NirDiamant/RAG_Techniques
#4

WeKnora

Similarity 119Trust 87Excellent 98

Open-source LLM knowledge platform: turn raw documents into a queryable RAG, an autonomous reasoning agent, and a self-maintaining Wiki.

16K starsJun 18, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeGoSemantic Search
$ npx skills add Tencent/WeKnora
#5

DocsGPT

Similarity 112Trust 88Excellent 100

Private AI platform for agents, assistants and enterprise search. Built-in Agent Builder, Deep research, Document analysis, Multi-model support, and API connectivity for agents.

18K starsJul 16, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonSemantic Search
$ npx skills add arc53/DocsGPT
#6

Txtai

Similarity 111Trust 90Excellent 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

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
#8

Khoj

Similarity 107Trust 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
#9

Haystack

Similarity 107Trust 90Excellent 100

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.

26K starsJun 12, 2026 pushdataMDXRAG
$ npx skills add deepset-ai/haystack
#10

MiroFish

Similarity 105Trust 92Excellent 100

A Simple and Universal Swarm Intelligence Engine, Predicting Anything. 简洁通用的群体智能引擎,预测万物

70K starsAug 3, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add 666ghj/MiroFish
#11

Searxng

Similarity 105Trust 90Excellent 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
#12

Cognee

Similarity 105Trust 90Excellent 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 14, 2026 pushrag-knowledgePythonVector Search
$ npx skills add topoteretes/cognee
#13

Anything Llm

Similarity 105Trust 89Excellent 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
#14

Logseq

Similarity 105Trust 88Excellent 100

A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration. Download link: http://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases. roadmap: https://logseq.io/p/NX4mc_ggEV

44K starsJun 25, 2026 pushrag-knowledgeClojureKnowledge Graph
$ npx skills add logseq/logseq
#15

Trilium

Similarity 105Trust 88Excellent 100

Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

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