Cinnamon/kotaemon

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

25716 stars · 2148 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Kotaemon is an open-source RAG-based application providing a clean, customizable UI for chatting and doing question answering with your own documents. It serves both end users who want document QA and developers who want to build custom RAG pipelines.

Use cases

• chat with my pdf documents
• ask questions about local documents with an llm
• build a custom rag pipeline
• self-hosted document question answering
• private rag ui for company knowledge base
• summarize and query research papers locally

When to choose

• you want a ready-to-use, self-hosted RAG app with a polished UI
• you need document QA over local files without sending data to third parties
• you are a developer who wants a customizable RAG pipeline foundation in Python

When to avoid

• you need a headless library or API-only RAG service without a UI
• you want a fully managed cloud RAG solution
• you need non-Python integration or a lightweight embeddable component

Facets

application · maturity active

rag chatbot chat-interface llm-inference web-framework large-language-models chatbots artificial-intelligence pdf python self-hosted cross-platform document-qa rag-ui local-documents huggingface gradio retrieval-augmented-generation docker web-server

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