# Pathway

> A streaming data framework for building real-time AI and ML applications

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/pathway
- **Category:** RAG Tools
- **Homepage:** https://pathway.com
- **Also known as:** pathway
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-21T11:20:49.673Z

## Vioscale score

**59.4 / 100**, confidence 36% (low). Computed 2026-09-01.

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 80 | 0.052 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| reliability | 0 | 0.073 | 0 | - |
| capabilities | 86.7 | 0.04877777777777778 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| integrations | 71.3 | 0.04066666666666666 | 2.9 | ✓ |
| security_posture | 5 | 0.073 | 0 | - |
| pricing_transparency | 25 | 0.084 | 2.1 | ✓ |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-21, [verify at source](https://pathway.com/framework/pricing). Independently observed._

Hybrid · Free tier

> Free Community tier; Scale and Enterprise licenses available (specific pricing not published)

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Community | Free | ✓ | - |
| Scale | Contact sales | - | - |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | - | - |

### Community

Open-source framework under BSL 1.1 license with self-hosted deployment

**Included limits:** ram: 8 GB, cores: 4

- 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

### Scale (Contact sales)

Scalable tier for production deployments with cloud hosting options

**Included limits:** ram: 24 TB, cores: 128, nodes: 40

- 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

### Enterprise (Contact sales)

Fully managed tier with advanced connectors and dedicated support

- 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

## About

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.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment

- **Platforms:** CLI, Web
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS, Self-hosted

## Integrations (21)

_Independently observed._

- Kafka
- Apache Spark
- Amazon S3
- PostgreSQL
- Redpanda
- Logstash
- Slack
- Google Pub/Sub
- Microsoft Sharepoint
- Delta Lake
- Apache Iceberg
- Google BigQuery
- Elasticsearch
- QuestDB
- MQTT
- OpenAI
- Ollama
- Mistral
- LiteLLM
- Sentence Transformers
- Docling

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for RAG Tools. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **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 | ✓ |

## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.model | freemium | [link](https://pathway.com/framework/pricing) | 2026-08-21 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://pathway.com/framework/pricing) | 2026-08-21 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | low | [link](https://pathway.com/framework/pricing) | 2026-08-21 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | no | [link](https://pathway.com/framework/pricing) | 2026-08-21 | 60% (medium) |

### integrations

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| integrations.count | 300 | [link](https://pathway.com/framework/pricing) | 2026-08-21 | 60% (medium) |

### market

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US","EU"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | [link](https://pathway.com/framework/pricing) | 2026-08-21 | 75% (high) |

### security

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.gdpr | yes | [link](https://pathway.com/framework/blog/regulatory-compliance-automation-live-ai) | 2026-08-21 | 75% (high) |

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