DSPy vs Haystack vs LangGraph vs LlamaIndex
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
DSPy
Stanford's framework for programming language models with modular Pyth...
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Haystack
Open-source orchestration framework from deepset for building producti...
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LangGraph
Open-source graph framework for durable, stateful AI agents
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LlamaIndex
Framework for production retrieval-augmented generation
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Value for money | — | — | ||
| Ease of use | — | — | ||
| ASEAN readiness | — | — | ||
| API quality | — | — | ||
| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | Fully free and open-source (MIT); you pay only for the underlying model calls. | Open-source framework (Apache-2.0) is free to self-host. | — | Free and open source — self-host at no cost |
| Paid from | — | Enterprise is quoted by deepset; the framework and the Studio tier are free | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 35K+ GitHub stars | 25K+ GitHub stars | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2020 | — | 2022 |
| Maker | Stanford NLP | deepset | — | — |
| Verdict | What this is for: Building LLM pipelines and agents as modular, optimizable Python programs instead of brittle prompt strings. Who this is for: ML engineers and researchers who want systematic, reproducible prompt/weigh... |
What this is for: Building production RAG, search, and agent pipelines with explicit, testable, modular components. Who this is for: Engineering teams that need control and observability over retrieval and generation, f... |
LangGraph has genuine production mileage that most agent frameworks can only cite in a blog post: Klarna's customer-support assistant runs on it at 85 million users, Replit Agent's multi-step app-building flow is built o... |
LlamaIndex is a leading open-source data framework for connecting LLMs to private data — ingestion, indexing, retrieval, and increasingly agentic workflows. Alongside LangChain it is one of the two default choices for bu... |
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