# Contextual AI vs FastRAG

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Contextual AI

| Attribute | Contextual AI | FastRAG |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 54 (41% (low)) | 47.4 (35% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 0 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 1,785 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A unified platform that enables enterprises to rapidly build and deploy specialized AI agents capable of reasoning across complex enterprise data, technical documentation, and institutional knowledge to automate high-value tasks at scale with grounded, accurate responses. | A toolkit for researchers and developers to construct and optimize RAG applications. It provides streamlined components for retrieval and generation, with support for multiple LLM backends and hardware accelerators, and maintains compatibility with the Haystack framework. |
| features.capabilities | `{"open_source":false,"multimodal_rag":true,"citation_attribution":true,"llm_provider_agnostic":false,"reranking_integration":true,"built_in_rag_eval_metrics":true,"managed_ingestion_pipeline":true,"embedding_provider_agnostic":false,"multi_hop_agentic_retrieval":true}` | `{"open_source":true,"multimodal_rag":true,"llm_provider_agnostic":true,"embedding_provider_agnostic":true}` |
| integrations.count | 1 | 6 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Google Cloud"}]` | `[{"name":"Haystack"},{"name":"HuggingFace"},{"name":"Elastic"},{"name":"Qdrant"},{"name":"OpenVINO"},{"name":"LlamaCpp"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Python |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"On-demand","summary":"Pay-as-you-go with $25 free credits","features":["Unlimited users","Document access entitlements","Usage analytics","Pipeline observability","Simple text document ingestion","Maximum 1 data integration","Query reformulation and decomposition","Document retrieval","Response generation with groundedness evaluation","Contextual SaaS deployment"],"commitment":"monthly","description":"Usage-based pricing with included free credits","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"free_credits":"$25"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Unlimited users","User roles and admin permissions","Document access entitlements","SOC2 Type II compliance","HIPAA compliance","SAML/SSO","Role-based access control","Usage analytics","Pipeline observability","Uptime SLA","Complex document processing with charts and images","Unstructured data support","Structured data support","UI-based and continuous data ingestion","Unlimited data integrations","Dedicated support","Onboarding services","Custom development support","Custom data retention","Customer VPC or SaaS deployment"],"description":"Custom pricing with enterprise security and performance features","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Parse - Text Only","components":[{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"pages"},"kind":"metered","amount":3,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Parse - Multimodal","components":[{"per":{"qty":1000,"unit":"pages"},"kind":"metered","amount":40,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Rerank v2","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"million tokens"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.05,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Rerank v2 Mini","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"million tokens"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.02,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Generate - Input Tokens","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"million tokens"},"kind":"metered","amount":3,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Generate - Output Tokens","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"million tokens"},"kind":"metered","amount":15,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"On-demand usage-based pricing from $25 free credits, or Enterprise with custom pricing. Component APIs available separately.","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://contextual.ai/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-25T15:36:22.486Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T10:58:48.479Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 22 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/releases/tag/v3.1.2","date":"2024-11-25T10:09:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.1.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/releases/tag/v3.1.1","date":"2024-11-24T14:22:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.1.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/releases/tag/v3.1.0","date":"2024-11-07T14:21:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/releases/tag/v3.0.2","date":"2024-07-09T09:49:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/releases/tag/v3.0.1","date":"2024-07-02T13:38:09Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/releases/tag/v3.0","date":"2024-05-22T15:13:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/releases/tag/v2.0","date":"2023-12-24T16:24:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/releases/tag/v1.3.0","date":"2023-06-20T12:06:34Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/releases/tag/v1.2.1","date":"2023-06-13T10:57:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.2.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/IntelLabs/fastRAG/releases/tag/v1.2.0","date":"2023-05-21T11:05:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.2.0"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2FIntelLabs%2FfastRAG&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (RAG Tools)

| Capability | Contextual AI | FastRAG |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 2026-09-01T16:57:17.095Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*