Comparison

Kotaemon vs RAGFlow

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
Kotaemon51
RAGFlow27
Score
Vioscale score
Kotaemon51 / 100low · 23%updating
RAGFlow27 / 100low · 15%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Kotaemon
RAGFlow
Model
Kotaemon
RAGFlowfreemium
Integrations
Count
Kotaemon8
RAGFlow12
Adoption
Github stars
Kotaemon25,715
RAGFlow
Activity
Commits last 30d
Kotaemon0
RAGFlow
Release
Cadence days
Kotaemon5
RAGFlow
History
Kotaemon20 items
RAGFlow
License
Spdx
KotaemonApache-2.0
RAGFlow
Language
Primary
KotaemonPython
RAGFlow

Capabilities

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

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

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

RAGFlow

An AI platform that combines retrieval-augmented generation with autonomous agent features, enabling developers to create production-ready AI systems from complex data sources. It supports multiple deployment models (cloud or self-hosted Docker), integrates with various LLM providers and data sources, and provides streamlined workflows for enterprises of any scale.

Independently observed

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Kotaemon
RAGFlow
macOS
Kotaemon
RAGFlow
Windows
Kotaemon
RAGFlow
Linux
Kotaemon
RAGFlow
CLI
Kotaemon
RAGFlow
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Kotaemon
RAGFlow
Self-hosted
Kotaemon
RAGFlow

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

RAGFlow

12 total - 11 not shared
  • Discord
  • Feishu
  • Telegram
  • Line
  • Confluence
  • S3
  • Notion
  • Google Drive
  • DeepSeek
  • Gemini
  • OpenClaw
Independently observed

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