Comparison

Kotaemon vs Ragas

No leader: the top candidate Ragas has only 0.27 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
Kotaemon51
Ragas58
Score
Vioscale score
Kotaemon51 / 100low · 23%
Ragas58 / 100low · 27%
Pricing
Free tier
Kotaemon
Ragas
Model
Kotaemon
Price level
Kotaemon
Ragasfree
Transparent
Kotaemon
Ragas
Integrations
Count
Kotaemon8
Ragas3
Adoption
Dependent repos
Kotaemon
Ragas1
Github stars
Kotaemon25,715
Ragas15,484
Activity
Commits last 30d
Kotaemon0
Ragas
Release
Cadence days
Kotaemon5
Ragas7
History
Kotaemon20 items
License
Spdx
Language
Primary
KotaemonPython
RagasPython

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

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

Ragas

A Python-based framework that evaluates RAG applications through automatic metrics covering faithfulness, relevance, and recall. Includes tools to synthetically generate test datasets customized for specific use cases, enabling developers to assess LLM application performance at both component and end-to-end levels.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Kotaemon

Pricing not documented yet.

Ragas

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
Kotaemon
Ragas
macOS
Kotaemon
Ragas
Windows
Kotaemon
Ragas
Linux
Kotaemon
Ragas
CLI
Kotaemon
Ragas
Deployment
Self-hosted
Kotaemon
Ragas

Integrations

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

In common (1)
  • OpenAI

Kotaemon

8 total - 7 not shared
  • AzureOpenAI
  • Cohere
  • Ollama
  • Groq
  • VoyageAI
  • Docling
  • Gradio
Independently observed

Ragas

3 total - 2 not shared
  • LlamaIndex
  • LangSmith
Independently observed

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