Comparison

FastRAG vs Kotaemon

No leader: the top candidate Kotaemon has only 0.23 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
FastRAG47
Kotaemon51
Score
Vioscale score
FastRAG47 / 100low · 35%
Kotaemon51 / 100low · 23%
Pricing
Free tier
FastRAG
Kotaemon
Model
FastRAGcommercial
Kotaemon
Price level
FastRAGfree
Kotaemon
Transparent
FastRAG
Kotaemon
Integrations
Count
FastRAG6
Kotaemon8
Adoption
Dependent repos
FastRAG0
Kotaemon
Github stars
FastRAG1,785
Kotaemon25,715
Activity
Commits last 30d
FastRAG0
Kotaemon0
Release
Cadence days
FastRAG22
Kotaemon5
History
FastRAG10 items
Kotaemon20 items
License
Spdx
FastRAGApache-2.0
KotaemonApache-2.0
Language
Primary
FastRAGPython
KotaemonPython

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for rag tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Hybrid retrieval
FastRAG-
Kotaemon
Reranking integration
FastRAG-
Kotaemon
Multi hop agentic retrieval
FastRAG-
Kotaemon
Embedding provider agnostic
FastRAG
Kotaemon
LLM provider agnostic
FastRAG
Kotaemon
Built in rag eval metrics
FastRAG-
Kotaemon-
Citation attribution
FastRAG-
Kotaemon
Multimodal rag
FastRAG
Kotaemon
Managed ingestion pipeline
FastRAG-
Kotaemon-
Open source
FastRAG
Kotaemon

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

FastRAG

A toolkit for researchers and developers to construct and optimize RAG applications. It provides streamlined components for retrieval and generation, with support for multiple LLM backends and hardware accelerators, and maintains compatibility with the Haystack framework.

Independently observed

Kotaemon

A tool that enables users to interact with their documents through AI-powered retrieval and generation. Built for both individual users seeking answers from documents and developers building custom retrieval-augmented generation systems.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

FastRAG

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Kotaemon

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
FastRAG
Kotaemon
macOS
FastRAG
Kotaemon
Windows
FastRAG
Kotaemon
Linux
FastRAG
Kotaemon
CLI
FastRAG
Kotaemon
Deployment
Self-hosted
FastRAG
Kotaemon

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

FastRAG

6 total
  • Haystack
  • HuggingFace
  • Elastic
  • Qdrant
  • OpenVINO
  • LlamaCpp
Independently observed

Kotaemon

8 total
  • OpenAI
  • AzureOpenAI
  • Cohere
  • Ollama
  • Groq
  • VoyageAI
  • Docling
  • Gradio
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.