RAGFlow

RAG frameworks Intermediate Open source Open core

An open-source RAG engine built around deep document understanding, template-based chunking, and grounded, citation-backed answers.

Strengths

Strong parsing of complex documents (Word, Excel, PDF, scans, images)
Explainable, template-based chunking with traceable citations
Configurable LLMs, embeddings, and reranking

Weaknesses

Heavy resource needs and many service dependencies
Docker images are x86-only, so ARM64 needs a manual build
Requires understanding of RAG concepts to configure well

At a glance

Licence: Apache-2.0
Pricing: Open core
Platforms: Linux, Docker
GPU required: No

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Entry last verified 18 August 2026.