# LightRAG vs txtai

| Attribute | LightRAG | txtai |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 61.7 (53% (medium)) | 61.2 (56% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | 14 |
| adoption.github_stars | 40,136 | 13,018 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A lightweight RAG system that processes documents through flexible parsing engines and supports local deployment of embedding, reranking, and storage backends. Includes built-in citation attribution and can work with various open-source LLMs and embedding models. It is indexed under RAG Tools.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What is LightRAG?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"LightRAG supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does LightRAG support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. LightRAG can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Can LightRAG be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. LightRAG is published under the MIT licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG","question":"Is LightRAG open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under Vector Databases.","source":"https://neuml.github.io/txtai","question":"What is txtai?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"txtai is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://neuml.github.io/txtai","question":"Is txtai free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"txtai supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://neuml.github.io/txtai","question":"What platforms does txtai support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. txtai can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://neuml.github.io/txtai","question":"Can txtai be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 11 integrations for txtai, including llama.cpp, LiteLLM, Hugging Face, OpenAI, Claude, AWS Bedrock, smolagents and OpenCode, plus 3 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://neuml.github.io/txtai","question":"What does txtai integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. txtai is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/neuml/txtai","question":"Is txtai open source?","confidence":0.95}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An open-source RAG system designed for high scalability that uses both knowledge graphs and vector search to retrieve information from large datasets with reduced computational overhead and faster response times. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"open_source":true,"multimodal_rag":true,"hybrid_retrieval":true,"citation_attribution":true,"llm_provider_agnostic":true,"reranking_integration":true,"managed_ingestion_pipeline":true,"embedding_provider_agnostic":true,"multi_hop_agentic_retrieval":false}` | `{"ann_index":"HNSW, IVF, IVFSparse, milvus-lite, turbovec, zvec","deployment":"embedded","consistency":"tunable","open_source":true,"quantization":"scalar","storage_tier":"disk_backed","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"permissive_oss","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"multimodal_rag":true,"distance_metrics":"cosine","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","hybrid_retrieval":true,"metadata_filtering":"pre_filter","citation_attribution":true,"llm_provider_agnostic":true,"reranking_integration":true,"managed_ingestion_pipeline":true,"embedding_provider_agnostic":true,"multi_hop_agentic_retrieval":true}` |
| integrations.count | 9 | 5 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"PostgreSQL","native":true,"category":"storage"},{"name":"Neo4j","native":true,"category":"storage"},{"name":"MongoDB","native":true,"category":"storage"},{"name":"Milvus","native":true,"category":"storage"},{"name":"Qdrant","native":true,"category":"storage"},{"name":"Redis","native":true,"category":"storage"},{"name":"Memgraph","native":true,"category":"storage"},{"name":"MinerU","native":true},{"name":"Docling","native":true}]` | `[{"name":"llama.cpp"},{"name":"LiteLLM"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock"},{"name":"smolagents"},{"name":"OpenCode"},{"name":"DuckDB"},{"name":"Milvus"},{"name":"LiteRT"},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","native":true,"category":"api","direction":"bidirectional"}]` |
| language.primary | Python | Python |
| license.spdx | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-14T09:25:31.588Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://neuml.github.io/txtai","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T12:43:59.946Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 7 | 27 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 5.4 |
| security.trust_center | https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/security | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":10,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=lightrag-hku&per_page=100","last_12m":9,"max_severity":"CRITICAL"}` | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=txtai&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (RAG Tools)

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

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T18:32:00.911Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*