Product
kotaemon
kotaemon is an open-source AI app, launched in 2024, made for people who don't write code and developers.
A self-hosted web app for chatting with your documents, with citations.
Main jobs: Ask your documents, Knowledge base (RAG). It is open source and free to use. You can use it in the browser, on your own server and offline on your own machine.
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At a glance
- Type
- Product
- Launched
- 2024
- Galaxy
- Assistants
- Pricing
- Open source, free
- Open source
- Yes · Apache-2.0
- Source code
- github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon
- GitHub stars
- 25,778
- How you run it
- Web · Self-host · Runs offline
- Made for
- No-code users · Developers
- Website
- cinnamon.github.io
What it can do
Ask your documentsmain jobunconfirmed
“An open-source clean & customizable RAG UI for chatting with your documents.”— github.com, 2026-09-24
Knowledge base (RAG)main jobunconfirmed
“GraphRAG indexing pipeline is provided as an example.”— github.com, 2026-09-24
Build a chatbotsupportedunconfirmed
“Framework for RAG Pipelines : Tools to build your own RAG-based document QA pipeline.”— github.com, 2026-09-24
Document parsingsupportedunconfirmed
“Setup multimodal document parsing (OCR, table parsing, figure extraction)”— github.com, 2026-09-24
unconfirmedproposed by a machine, awaiting calibration
Alternatives
- RAGFlowOpen source, freeAlso does: Ask your documents, Document parsing, Knowledge base (RAG)
- QAnythingOpen source, freeAlso does: Ask your documents, Knowledge base (RAG), Build a chatbot
- AnythingLLMOpen source, freeAlso does: Ask your documents, Knowledge base (RAG), Build a chatbot
- PrivateGPTOpen source, freeAlso does: Ask your documents, Knowledge base (RAG), Document parsing
- KhojOpen source, freeAlso does: Ask your documents, Knowledge base (RAG)
- Langchain-ChatchatOpen source, freeAlso does: Ask your documents, Knowledge base (RAG)
- MaxKBOpen source, freeAlso does: Build a chatbot, Knowledge base (RAG), Ask your documents
- LlamaIndexOpen source, freeAlso does: Knowledge base (RAG), Ask your documents, Document parsing
- FastGPTOpen source, freeAlso does: Build a chatbot, Knowledge base (RAG), Document parsing
- NotebookLMFree plan + paid upgradesAlso does: Ask your documents, Knowledge base (RAG)
- DifyOpen source, freeAlso does: Build a chatbot, Knowledge base (RAG)
- BotpressOpen source, freeAlso does: Build a chatbot, Knowledge base (RAG)
Connections
Questions
What is kotaemon?
kotaemon is an open-source AI app, launched in 2024, made for people who don't write code and developers. A self-hosted web app for chatting with your documents, with citations.
Is kotaemon free?
Yes. kotaemon is open source (Apache-2.0) and free to use.
Is kotaemon open source?
Yes, under the Apache-2.0 license. The source code is at https://github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemon.
Can kotaemon run locally?
Yes. kotaemon can run offline on your own machine. It can also be self-hosted on your own server.
What can kotaemon do?
Main jobs: Ask your documents, Knowledge base (RAG). It can also do: Build a chatbot, Document parsing.
What are open-source alternatives to kotaemon?
Open-source ones: RAGFlow, QAnything, AnythingLLM, PrivateGPT, Khoj, Langchain-Chatchat, MaxKB and LlamaIndex. Others: NotebookLM.
Sources
- github.com/Cinnamon/kotaemonchecked 2026-09-24
- cinnamon.github.io/kotaemon