Comparison

FastRAG vs RAGFlow

No leader: the top candidate RAGFlow has only 0.09 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.

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FastRAG40
RAGFlow54
Score
vioscaleAI score
FastRAG40 / 100medium · 54%
RAGFlow54 / 100low · 9%
Pricing
Free tier
FastRAG✓
RAGFlow✓
Model
Price level
FastRAGfree
RAGFlowfree
Transparent
FastRAG✓
RAGFlow✓
Integrations
Count
FastRAG7
RAGFlow12
Adoption
Dependent repos
FastRAG0
RAGFlow–
Github stars
FastRAG1,786
RAGFlow–
Activity
Commits last 30d
FastRAG0
RAGFlow–
Release
Cadence days
FastRAG22
RAGFlow–
History
FastRAG10 items
RAGFlow–
License
Spdx
FastRAGApache-2.0
RAGFlow–
Language
Primary
FastRAGPython
RAGFlow–
Content
Faq
FastRAG6 items
RAGFlow5 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

FastRAG

An open-source Python toolkit that combines document retrieval with large language models to create question-answering and generation systems. Provides optimized components and supports multiple inference backends including Intel accelerators.

Independently observed

RAGFlow

RAGFlow is an open-source RAG engine that streamlines data processing and integration for building production-ready AI systems. It supports multiple data formats and provides configurable LLM and embedding options with agent-based workflows.

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 ↗

RAGFlow

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
FastRAG✗
RAGFlow✓
Linux
FastRAG✗
RAGFlow✓
CLI
FastRAG✓
RAGFlow✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
FastRAG✗
RAGFlow✓
Self-hosted
FastRAG✓
RAGFlow✓
On-premise
FastRAG✓
RAGFlow✗

Integrations

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

FastRAG

10 total
  • Haystack
  • HuggingFace
  • Elastic
  • Qdrant
  • OpenVINO
  • LlamaCpp
  • ONNX Runtime
  • Llama CPP
  • Intel Gaudi
  • Elasticsearch
Independently observed

RAGFlow

16 total
  • Discord
  • Feishu
  • Telegram
  • Line
  • Confluence
  • S3
  • Notion
  • Google Drive
  • OpenAI
  • DeepSeek
  • Gemini
  • OpenClaw
  • OpenAI GPT-5
  • Google Gemini 3 Pro
  • DeepSeek v4
  • MCP
Independently observed
Still deciding?

FastRAG or RAGFlow: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

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