# Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases vs LightRAG

| Attribute | Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases | LightRAG |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 60.8 (62% (medium)) | 64.2 (16% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 39,203 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases is a fully managed service that integrates generative AI applications with company proprietary data sources. It handles data ingestion, embedding, storage, and retrieval from sources like S3, SharePoint, and Confluence, and integrates natively with Bedrock agents to build AI systems without custom code. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | - | `{"open_source":true,"multimodal_rag":true,"citation_attribution":true,"llm_provider_agnostic":true,"reranking_integration":true,"managed_ingestion_pipeline":true,"embedding_provider_agnostic":true}` |
| integrations.count | 10 | - |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"SharePoint"},{"name":"Confluence"},{"name":"Google Drive"},{"name":"OneDrive"},{"name":"Web crawlers"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock AgentCore"},{"name":"Asana"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"Strands"}]` | - |
| language.primary | - | Python |
| license.spdx | - | MIT |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","GB","DE","IE","JP"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":["US","GB","DE","IE","IT","SE","JP","IN","BR","SG"],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Standard","summary":"Pay per page ($0.010), per Retrieve API call ($1.00/1k), and per image for fine-tuning ($0.005)","features":["Knowledge base storage and retrieval","Native data connectors","Smart parsing","Multimodal processing","Built-in observability"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"page"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"Retrieve API calls"},"kind":"metered","amount":1,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"image"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.005,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"On-demand pricing based on usage","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Flex","summary":"50% discount to Standard tier pricing","features":["Knowledge base storage and retrieval","Native data connectors","Smart parsing","Multimodal processing","Built-in observability"],"components":[{"of":"Standard tier pricing","kind":"percentage","rate":50}],"description":"Discounted on-demand pricing","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Priority","summary":"75% premium to Standard tier pricing","features":["Knowledge base storage and retrieval","Native data connectors","Smart parsing","Multimodal processing","Built-in observability"],"components":[{"of":"Standard tier pricing","kind":"percentage","rate":175}],"description":"Premium on-demand pricing for priority access","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Reserved","summary":"Per-hour pricing per model unit with commitment discounts","features":["Reserved model units","Committed pricing"],"commitment":"monthly","description":"Committed capacity pricing with 1-month or 6-month terms","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Custom Model Storage","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":1.95,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Batch Inference","components":[{"of":"On-demand inference pricing","kind":"percentage","rate":50}]}],"summary":"Usage-based starting at $0.010 per page and $1.00 per 1,000 API calls. Free managed search index. Multiple tiers available (Standard, Flex, Priority, Reserved).","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T18:21:34.026Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"image","amount":0.005,"currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | - |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | - |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":0.005,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | - | 7 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.5.7rc2","date":"2026-08-19T07:01:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.5.7rc2"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.5.7rc1","date":"2026-08-17T06:47:01Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v1.5.7rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.5.6","date":"2026-08-06T08:29:47Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.5.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.5.5","date":"2026-07-31T12:07:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.5.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.5.5rc1","date":"2026-07-13T19:33:37Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v1.5.5rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.5.4","date":"2026-06-24T10:24:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.5.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.5.3","date":"2026-06-14T06:21:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.5.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.5.2","date":"2026-06-11T06:14:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.5.1","date":"2026-06-09T08:32:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.5.0","date":"2026-06-03T01:54:09Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.5.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.5.0rc3","date":"2026-05-26T09:27:02Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v1.5.0rc3"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.4.16","date":"2026-05-07T19:34:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.4.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.4.15","date":"2026-04-19T08:40:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.4.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.4.14","date":"2026-04-12T20:43:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.4.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.4.13","date":"2026-04-02T17:00:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.4.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.4.12","date":"2026-03-27T05:52:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.4.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.4.11","date":"2026-03-20T08:41:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.4.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.4.11rc2","date":"2026-03-13T06:19:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.4.11rc2"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.4.10","date":"2026-02-27T07:39:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.4.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/HKUDS/LightRAG/releases/tag/v1.4.9.11","date":"2026-01-15T18:27:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.4.9.11"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.pci | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":5,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=lightrag-hku&per_page=100","last_12m":4,"max_severity":"CRITICAL"}` |

## Capabilities (RAG Tools)

| Capability | Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases | LightRAG |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:57:18.786Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*