RAGFlow

infiniflow/ragflow on GitHub

A document retrieval and agent platform that parses documents and supplies retrieved context to language models.

Source checked 30 October 2026

Access and use

Self-host through Docker and Docker Compose; the reviewed README quickstart selects release candidate v1.0.0-rc2. Recommended starting host: 4 CPU cores, 16 GB RAM and 50 GB disk, with more resources for local models or higher load. Docker 24 or later and Compose 2.26.1 or later. Configure an LLM, embedding model and reranker, including endpoint and API key as needed. Uploaded documents are processed and stored by the deployment, and configured model services may receive document or query content. Provider and hosting costs apply. Apache-2.0.

Who it is for

Teams evaluating searchable document collections and retrieval workflows they operate.

What we checked

Last checked: 30 October 2026
Source read: github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/blob/6f571fda64cb4eb712aa6c06b3209a4b0553a27c/README.md
How it was checked: Official documentation and licence reviewed; not installed or independently tested

Entry details

Official link: github.com/infiniflow/ragflow
Group: Platforms
Added to Gearlist: on or before 30 October 2026
Gearlist id: ragflow
Markdown: /tools/ragflow.md

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Official link: https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow

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