LlamaIndex vs Haystack
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
LlamaIndex
Framework for production retrieval-augmented generation
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Haystack
Open-source orchestration framework from deepset for building producti...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 |
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| Ease of use | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| 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 | 2022 | 2020 |
| Maker | — | deepset |
| Verdict | 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... |
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... |
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