Comparison

FastRAG vs txtai

On the evidence we track, txtai leads this comparison with a composite score of 61/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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FastRAG40
★txtai61
Score
vioscaleAI score
FastRAG40 / 100medium · 54%
txtai61 / 100medium · 56%
Pricing
Free tier
FastRAG✓
txtai✓
Model
Price level
FastRAGfree
txtaifree
Transparent
FastRAG✓
txtai✓
Integrations
Count
FastRAG7
txtai5
Reliability
Status page
FastRAG–
txtai✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
FastRAG0
txtai14
Github stars
FastRAG1,786
txtai13,018
Activity
Commits last 30d
FastRAG0
txtai100
Release
Cadence days
FastRAG22
txtai27
History
FastRAG10 items
License
Spdx
Language
Primary
FastRAGPython
txtaiPython
Content
Faq
FastRAG6 items
txtai6 items

Capabilities

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

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

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

txtai

Leader

txtai is an open-source Python framework for building semantic search applications, LLM-powered agents, retrieval augmented generation systems, and language model workflows with support for multiple vector backends and integration with various LLMs.

Independently observed

Pricing

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FastRAG

Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

txtai

Leader
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✗
txtai✓
CLI
FastRAG✓
txtai✓
Deployment
Self-hosted
FastRAG✓
txtai✓
On-premise
FastRAG✓
txtai✗

Integrations

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

In common (3)
  • HuggingFace
  • LlamaCpp
  • Llama CPP

FastRAG

10 total - 7 not shared
  • Haystack
  • Elastic
  • Qdrant
  • OpenVINO
  • ONNX Runtime
  • Intel Gaudi
  • Elasticsearch
Independently observed

txtai

Leader
12 total - 10 not shared
  • LiteLLM
  • OpenAI
  • Claude
  • AWS Bedrock
  • smolagents
  • OpenCode
  • DuckDB
  • Milvus
  • LiteRT
  • Model Context Protocol
Independently observed
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