# Cinnamon/kotaemon

An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents.

Repository: https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kotaemon
Homepage: https://cinnamon.github.io/kotaemon/
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: chatbot, llms, open-source, rag
Last push: 2026-07-14T16:53:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 84/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 92, release rhythm 86, longevity 63
- inputs: {"age_days": 891, "days_push": 50, "days_rel": 94, "gap_med": 2.0, "n_releases_24m": 57}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 25716, forks 2148 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:38.444940+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: rag, chatbot, chat-interface, llm-inference, web-framework
- domain: large-language-models, chatbots, artificial-intelligence, pdf
- platform: python, self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: document-qa, rag-ui, local-documents, huggingface, gradio, retrieval-augmented-generation, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- Cinnamon/kotaemon (main) score 84

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:38.444940+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:56:00.089719+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:38.444940+00:00, sha 81267337df67)
  - homepage: https://cinnamon.github.io/kotaemon/ (fetched 2026-08-29T07:52:37.889809+00:00, sha 7d93e8401b8c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.