RAG & Vector Search, ranked by momentum

What’s trending in RAG & Vector Search: the projects accelerating fastest right now — ranked by how quickly their growth is speeding up, not by how many stars they already have.

78 tracked projects · updated daily · 3 Nov 2026

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srbhr/Resume-MatcherThe #1 AI Harness for Building Resumes, PDFs, Cover Letters & more, locally with 100+ LLMs support.

+14.629.1k 285

infiniflow/ragflowRAGFlow is a leading open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that fuses cutting-edge RAG with Agent capabilities to create a superior context layer for LLMs

+4.393.4k 382

milvus-io/milvusMilvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

+3.646.6k 482

memvid/memvidMemory layer for AI Agents. Replace complex RAG pipelines with a serverless, single-file memory layer. Give your agents instant retrieval and long-term memory.

+98.717.4k 581

StarTrail-org/LEANN[MLsys2026]: RAG on Everything with LEANN. Enjoy 97% storage savings while running a fast, accurate, and 100% private RAG application on your personal device.

+5.613.8k 680

PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCRTurn any PDF or image document into structured data for your AI. A powerful, lightweight OCR toolkit that bridges the gap between images/PDFs and LLMs. Supports 100+ languages.

+12.192.2k 780

labring/FastGPTFastGPT is a knowledge-based platform built on the LLMs, offers a comprehensive suite of out-of-the-box capabilities such as data processing, RAG retrieval, and visual AI workflow orchestration, letting you easily develop and deploy complex question-answering systems without the need for extensive setup or configuration.

+2.130.0k 877

Mintplex-Labs/anything-llmStop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent experience

+0.667.9k 974

codexu/note-genA cross-platform Markdown AI note-taking software.

+3.913.0k 1073

qdrant/qdrantQdrant - High-performance, massive-scale Vector Database and Vector Search Engine for the next generation of AI. Also available in the cloud https://cloud.qdrant.io/

+1.435.4k 1172

meilisearch/meilisearchA lightning-fast search engine API bringing AI-powered hybrid search to your sites and applications.

+0.659.8k 1272

HKUDS/VideoRAG[KDD'2026] "VideoRAG: Chat with Your Videos"

+8.03.5k 1369

stanford-oval/stormAn LLM-powered knowledge curation system that researches a topic and generates a full-length report with citations.

+6.431.8k 1469

HKUDS/LightRAG[EMNLP2025] "LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation"

+1.340.5k 1566

dataelement/bishengBISHENG is an open LLM devops platform for next generation Enterprise AI applications. Powerful and comprehensive features include: GenAI workflow, RAG, Agent, Unified model management, Evaluation, SFT, Dataset Management, Enterprise-level System Management, Observability and more.

+0.912.1k 1666

microsoft/graphragA modular graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system

+1.736.5k 1765

pgvector/pgvectorOpen-source vector similarity search for Postgres

+0.723.6k 1865

infiniflow/infinityThe AI-native database built for LLM applications, providing incredibly fast hybrid search of dense vector, sparse vector, tensor (multi-vector), and full-text.

+1.04.8k 1964

khoj-ai/khojYour AI second brain. Self-hostable. Get answers from the web or your docs. Build custom agents, schedule automations, do deep research. Turn any online or local LLM into your personal, autonomous AI (gpt, claude, gemini, llama, qwen, mistral). Get started - free.

+3.138.0k 2062

vitali87/code-graph-ragThe ultimate RAG for your monorepo. Query, understand, and edit multi-language codebases with the power of AI and knowledge graphs

+0.75.3k 2161

zilliztech/deep-searcherOpen Source Deep Research Alternative to Reason and Search on Private Data. Written in Python.

+2.78.4k 2261

alibaba/zvecA lightweight, lightning-fast, in-process vector database

+0.316.2k 2360~

vcaesar/riotGo Open Source, Distributed, Simple and efficient text/vector Search Engine

+0.76.1k 2459

ConardLi/easy-datasetA powerful tool for creating datasets for LLM fine-tuning 、RAG and Eval

+1.115.1k 2554

Cinnamon/kotaemonAn open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents.

+1.325.9k

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