Dify.ai
Best for No-code RAG app builder—upload docs, configure chunking and embedding, connect an LLM, and deploy a chat interface or API endpoint in under an hour.
When not Self-hosted setup required for full data control; cloud version stores data on Dify servers.
Open-source platform for building AI applications with visual workflow editor.
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Build a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system to answer questions over your own PDFs, wikis, and knowledge bases.
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