# Contextual AI vs Kotaemon

| Attribute | Contextual AI | Kotaemon |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 54 (41% (low)) | 50.9 (23% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 0 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 25,715 |
| 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 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. |
| 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,"hybrid_retrieval":true,"citation_attribution":true,"llm_provider_agnostic":true,"reranking_integration":true,"embedding_provider_agnostic":true,"multi_hop_agentic_retrieval":true}` |
| integrations.count | 1 | 8 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Google Cloud"}]` | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"AzureOpenAI"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"Ollama"},{"name":"Groq"},{"name":"VoyageAI"},{"name":"Docling"},{"name":"Gradio"}]` |
| 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,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":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"]}` | - |
| pricing.free_tier | no | - |
| pricing.model | commercial | - |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | - | 5 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.12.0","date":"2026-05-31T04:45:39Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.12.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.11.3","date":"2026-03-28T16:30:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.11.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.11.2","date":"2026-03-04T10:17:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.11.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.11.1","date":"2026-02-27T09:47:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.11.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.11.0","date":"2025-07-04T11:34:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.11.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.10.6","date":"2025-04-01T04:32:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.10.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.10.4","date":"2025-03-31T14:53:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.10.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.10.3","date":"2025-02-14T14:37:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.10.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.10.2","date":"2025-02-05T06:45:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.10.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.10.1","date":"2025-02-03T01:10:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.10.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.10.0","date":"2025-02-02T08:20:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.10.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.9.11","date":"2024-12-24T02:45:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.9.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.9.10","date":"2024-12-23T02:28:43Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.9.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.9.9","date":"2024-12-18T13:28:21Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.9.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.9.8","date":"2024-12-17T10:34:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.9.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.9.6","date":"2024-12-15T16:14:21Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.9.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.9.5","date":"2024-12-07T02:19:44Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.9.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.9.4","date":"2024-12-05T12:56:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.9.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.9.3","date":"2024-12-04T04:10:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.9.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon/releases/tag/v0.9.2","date":"2024-11-28T14:13:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.9.2"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |

## Capabilities (RAG Tools)

| Capability | Contextual AI | Kotaemon |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 2026-09-01T15:17:50.537Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*