Available worldwide · Popular in: US, EU
What is Contextual AI?
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.
Contextual AI pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
On-demand usage-based pricing from $25 free credits, or Enterprise with custom pricing. Component APIs available separately.
On-demand
Usage-based pricing with included free credits
- free_credits
- $25
- 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
Enterprise
Contact salesCustom pricing with enterprise security and performance 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
Add-ons
- Parse - Text Only$3 per 1000 pages
- Parse - Multimodal$40 per 1000 pages
- Rerank v2$0.05 per million tokens
- Rerank v2 Mini$0.02 per million tokens
- Generate - Input Tokens$3 per million tokens
- Generate - Output Tokens$15 per million tokens
What Contextual AI does
The capabilities that matter for rag tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- 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
- ✗
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
Integrations (1)
Independently observed- Google Cloud
Contextual AI FAQ
Common questions about Contextual AI, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Contextual AI?
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. It is indexed under RAG Tools.
Source: https://contextual.ai/pricing
How much does Contextual AI cost?
Contextual AI is sold across 2 plans: On-demand and Enterprise. We have not confirmed a published price for every tier. There is no free tier. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://contextual.ai/pricing
What platforms does Contextual AI support?
Contextual AI supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://contextual.ai/pricing
Can Contextual AI be self-hosted?
Not fully, on what we have confirmed. Contextual AI is offered as cloud / SaaS and hybrid, and a hybrid deployment usually means some components can run on your own infrastructure while the rest stays vendor-hosted. We have not confirmed a completely self-hosted option, so check with the vendor if that is a requirement.
Source: https://contextual.ai/pricing
What security certifications does Contextual AI have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Contextual AI. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Contextual AI not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://contextual.ai/security/vulnerability-disclosure-program
Where is Contextual AI available?
Contextual AI is available worldwide. Its primary markets are the United States and the EU.
Source: https://contextual.ai/pricing
Contextual AI alternatives
Other rag tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- LightRAGA lightweight framework that combines knowledge graphs and vector embeddings for efficient information retrievalmedium · 53%
- RagieA managed AI context platform for agents, assistants, and applicationsmedium · 73%
- Amazon Bedrock Knowledge BasesA managed service connecting AI applications to enterprise data with automatic indexing and retrievalmedium · 74%
- PathwayA streaming data framework for building real-time AI and ML applicationslow · 35%
- Ragaslow · 32%
- RAGFlowAn open-source platform combining retrieval-augmented generation with AI agent capabilities to provide contextual support for language modelslow · 9%
Compare Contextual AI
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The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Contextual AI, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 60 | 0.12 | 7.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 0.04 | 3.1 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 55 | 0.05 | 3.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 9 | 0.04 | 0.4 | ✓ |
| Price level | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 64% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Multimodal rag, Citation attribution, Reranking integration, Built in rag eval metrics, Managed ingestion pipeline, Multi hop agentic retrieval | mediumsource · 2026-08-25 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 1 | mediumsource · 2026-08-25 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-25 · 75% |
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