kotaemon
An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents.
Kotaemon is a clean, open-source RAG interface for chatting with your documents, with citations, multi-user support and a customizable pipeline for developers.
From the README
git clone https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon cd kotaemon
- Clean & Minimalistic UI: A user-friendly interface for RAG-based QA.
- Support for Various LLMs: Compatible with LLM API providers (OpenAI, AzureOpenAI, Cohere, etc.) and local LLMs (via ollama and llama-cpp-python).
- Easy Installation: Simple scripts to get you started quickly.
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kotaemon has 25.6k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 2.1k times. kotaemon is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2024. kotaemon is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are chatbot, llms, open-source, rag.
Read the full guideWhat is kotaemon?
An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents.
Is kotaemon open source?
kotaemon is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.
Is kotaemon free?
Yes. kotaemon is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.
What license does kotaemon use?
kotaemon is available under the Apache-2.0 license.
What language is kotaemon written in?
kotaemon is written mainly in Python.
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