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 Visit Haystack Open-source orchestration framework from deepset for building producti... Visit
RECATOOLS Score 8 / 10 7.5 / 10
Capability 8
Value for money 9
Ease of use 6
ASEAN readiness 6
API quality 8
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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