Nuclia
Nuclia's RAG platform, now Progress Agentic RAG after 2025 buyout
Overview
Nuclia — now sold as Progress Agentic RAG after Progress Software's 2025 acquisition — is a managed RAG platform that ingests documents, audio, video, and more, then serves cited search and Q&A without you having to build the retrieval pipeline yourself.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 11 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- 5GB indexed data or 15k resources
- 10,000 tokens/month included
- 750MB max file size, text only
- Community support
- 25GB indexed data or 80k resources
- All file types, 1.5GB max file size
- AI Assistant and doc summarization
- 2 knowledge boxes included
- Unlimited file size and indexed data
- Prompt LAB and RAG LAB access
- Private Slack + Zendesk support
Use cases
What you can produce with Nuclia
- Ingests 60+ file formats across 100+ languages
- Handles audio/video transcription alongside documents
- No-code pipeline: automatic chunking, embedding, vector storage
- Cited search and grounded Q&A out of the box
- Open-source NucliaDB engine available to self-host (AGPLv3)
- AI classification and generative search (Pro tier and up)
ASEAN Perspective
Nuclia in Southeast Asia
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Nuclia built a genuinely differentiated RAG platform: point it at a pile of mixed media — PDFs, audio, video, scanned documents — across 100-plus languages, and it handles parsing, chunking, embeddings, and vector storage for you, then serves grounded search and Q&A with citations. Progress Software bought the company for roughly $50 million in mid-2025 and has been folding it into its product line as "Progress Agentic RAG," so the Nuclia brand and nuclia.com now redirect into Progress's site.
It's aimed at teams that want production RAG without assembling LangChain, a vector database, and an ingestion pipeline themselves, especially over non-text media most competitors handle badly. The underlying database, NucliaDB, stays open source (AGPLv3) if you want to self-host instead. The catch under Progress ownership: pricing starts around $700/month, squarely enterprise territory, and you're now buying into a larger vendor's roadmap rather than a focused startup's.
What people say
Nuclia spent several years building a name for itself as one of the more capable "ingest anything, get grounded answers back" RAG platforms, specifically because it handled multimedia — audio and video transcription alongside documents — better than most retrieval-as-a-service competitors, across a claimed 60-plus file formats and 100-plus languages. That breadth is still the core pitch: a no-code ingestion pipeline, automatic chunking and embedding, and a search/Q&A layer with source citations on top, so teams skip building the LangChain-or-LlamaIndex stack themselves.
The company was acquired by Progress Software for roughly $50 million, a deal announced and closed around July 2025 as Progress moved into "agentic RAG." By 2026 the product has been rebranded as Progress Agentic RAG — the old nuclia.com domain now redirects straight to progress.com/agentic-rag, and the GitHub organization is labeled "nuclia - Progress Agentic RAG." Anyone landing on the old Nuclia name should expect Progress branding, not a standalone startup.
Pricing under Progress is now published rather than the enterprise-quote-only model Nuclia ran before: a Starter tier at $700/month covers up to 5GB of indexed data or 15,000 resources and 10,000 tokens a month, text files only, capped at 750MB per file. Pro jumps to $1,925/month, unlocks all file types, 25GB/80k resources, AI classification and generative search on top of basic Q&A, and comes with up to two knowledge boxes (more available at $750/month each). Enterprise is a custom quote with unlimited file size and data, full lab-tier features, and hybrid cloud deployment. Usage beyond the included token allowance runs $0.008 per token on every tier.
The underlying open-source piece, NucliaDB — the AI search database that does the actual vector, keyword, and graph indexing — remains on GitHub under an AGPLv3 license with an active commit history, so there's still a genuine self-hosted path if the managed pricing doesn't fit. That's the main thing distinguishing this from a fully closed enterprise product: you can run the database yourself and skip Progress's managed layer, at the cost of doing the ingestion pipeline work Nuclia used to abstract away for you.
Net: strong technology for mixed-media RAG, but it's no longer a standalone SaaS with startup pricing — it's a line item in Progress Software's enterprise catalog now, starting at four figures a month.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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