Haystack vs LlamaIndex
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Haystack
Open-source orchestration framework from deepset for building producti...
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LlamaIndex
Framework for production retrieval-augmented generation
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 8 / 10 |
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| Value for money | — | |
| Ease of use | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | |
| API quality | — | |
| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | Open-source framework (Apache-2.0) is free to self-host. | — |
| Paid from | Haystack Enterprise (paid) for governance, support, and scaling; contact deepset. | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 25K+ GitHub stars | — |
| Founded | 2020 | 2022 |
| Maker | deepset | — |
| Verdict | 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... |
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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