# Kotaemon vs Pathway

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Pathway

| Attribute | Kotaemon | Pathway |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 50.9 (23% (low)) | 59.4 (36% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 0 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 25,715 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | Pathway Live Data Framework is a scalable, open-source data processing platform that enables continuous, real-time data pipeline construction for AI applications. It provides unified stream and batch processing with built-in support for retrieval-augmented generation, agentic systems, and multimodal data handling. |
| features.capabilities | `{"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}` | `{"open_source":true,"multimodal_rag":true,"hybrid_retrieval":true,"llm_provider_agnostic":true,"managed_ingestion_pipeline":true,"embedding_provider_agnostic":true,"multi_hop_agentic_retrieval":true}` |
| integrations.count | 8 | 300 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"AzureOpenAI"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"Ollama"},{"name":"Groq"},{"name":"VoyageAI"},{"name":"Docling"},{"name":"Gradio"}]` | `[{"name":"Kafka"},{"name":"Apache Spark"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"Redpanda"},{"name":"Logstash"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Google Pub/Sub"},{"name":"Microsoft Sharepoint"},{"name":"Delta Lake"},{"name":"Apache Iceberg"},{"name":"Google BigQuery"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"QuestDB"},{"name":"MQTT"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Ollama"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"LiteLLM"},{"name":"Sentence Transformers"},{"name":"Docling"}]` |
| language.primary | Python | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"web":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | - | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Community","features":["300+ API connectors to data sources","Kafka, S3, PostgreSQL, cloud database connectors","Sub-millisecond REST API endpoints","Python and SQL programming interfaces","Streaming and batch processing","Advanced joins, windows, temporal operations","Rust-based streaming engine","Jupyter notebook support","Vector indexing (HNSW, BM25, hybrid)","LLM extension pack","Unstructured data parsing","Community support"],"description":"Open-source framework under BSL 1.1 license with self-hosted deployment","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"ram":"8 GB","cores":"4"}},{"free":false,"name":"Scale","features":["All Community features","20+ pre-built application templates","Basic RAG pipelines, document processing, log monitoring","Kafka ETL and social media analytics templates","Business support with 1-business day response","Free pipeline design consultation","Developer assistance program"],"description":"Scalable tier for production deployments with cloud hosting options","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"ram":"24 TB","cores":"128","nodes":"40"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","features":["All Scale features","Advanced connectors (Sharepoint, Delta Lake, Iceberg, BigQuery, Elasticsearch, QuestDB)","MQTT/IoT and custom messaging connectors","High-availability failover","Kubernetes deployment","OpenTelemetry and Grafana monitoring","Real-time geospatial analytics","Visual live dashboards","Historical data snapshots","Industry-specific solutions","Professional services and custom pipelines","Multi-zone SLA","24/7 phone support"],"description":"Fully managed tier with advanced connectors and dedicated support","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free Community tier; Scale and Enterprise licenses available (specific pricing not published)","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pathway.com/framework/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T10:57:45.277Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | - | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | - | low |
| pricing.transparent | - | no |
| 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.gdpr | - | yes |

## Capabilities (RAG Tools)

| Capability | Kotaemon | Pathway |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **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 2026-09-01T14:56:56.152Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*