LlamaIndex vs Haystack
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
LlamaIndex
Document parsing platform plus open-source RAG framework
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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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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | MIT-licensed framework is free to self-host. LlamaParse Free plan: 10K credits a month, 5 indexes, community support | Open-source framework (Apache-2.0) is free to self-host. |
| Paid from | From $50/month (Starter, 40K credits; 1,000 credits = $1.25) | Enterprise is quoted by deepset; the free Studio tier allows one user |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 25K+ GitHub stars |
| Founded | 2022 | 2020 |
| Maker | — | deepset |
| Verdict | LlamaIndex has moved from being primarily a RAG framework to selling LlamaParse, a document-processing platform for parsing, extraction, classification and indexing, priced in credits from a free plan to custom Enterpris... |
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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