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Onyx vs RAGFlow

A side-by-side comparison of Onyx and RAGFlow, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.

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Onyx

Assistant

Open-source, self-hosted AI chat and enterprise search over your own docs.

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RAGFlow

Search

Open-source RAG engine with deep document understanding.

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At a glance

Feature comparison of Onyx and RAGFlow
AttributeOnyxRAGFlow
Category (differs)AssistantSearch
PricingFREEMIUMFREEMIUM
LicenseOpen coreOpen core
Deployment (differs)Self-hostHybrid
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
Model support (differs)Multi-modelModel-agnostic
Vendor (differs)OnyxInfiniFlow Inc.

The honest brief

Onyx

Formerly Danswer — MIT-core enterprise search/RAG over your own apps, self-hosted, optional features under open-core.

  • Data stays on your own infrastructure
  • Connects to company docs and apps
  • Works with any LLM, incl. local
  • MIT core, free
  • Some features under separate license
  • Self-host ops overhead
  • Connectors need configuration

RAGFlow

DeepDoc parsing turns messy PDFs, tables, and scans into citation-backed chunks—grounding answers better than naive text-splitting RAG stacks.

  • Apache-2.0, fully self-hostable
  • Deep document, table, and scan parsing
  • Hallucination-resistant grounded QA
  • Hybrid vector + full-text search
  • Built-in agent orchestration
  • Heavier setup than hosted RAG APIs
  • Cloud tiers cap apps and storage
  • Resource-intensive to self-host
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