LightRAG

Simple, fast graph-based RAG from HKU Data Science lab (EMNLP 2025)

What LightRAG does

  • Simple, fast graph-based RAG from HKU Data Science lab (EMNLP 2025)
  • Combines knowledge-graph and vector retrieval
  • Works with local or hosted LLMs

LightRAG — straight answers

What is LightRAG?

LightRAG is listed under Agent Memory & RAG-as-a-Service, in the AI Agents & Automation category on Flocci AI Tools. Simple, fast graph-based RAG from HKU Data Science lab (EMNLP 2025). It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at github.com.

Is LightRAG free?

LightRAG is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 399 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

What can LightRAG do?

LightRAG does 3 things the catalog singles out: Simple, fast graph-based rag from hku data science lab (emnlp 2025); combines knowledge-graph and vector retrieval; works with local or hosted llms.

What is the best free alternative to LightRAG?

Basic Memory is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Agent Memory & RAG-as-a-Service sub-category and is free. Cognee, Graphiti and MemOS also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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Mem0

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  • Free Hobby tier: unlimited end users, 10K add / 1K retrieval requests/month
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  • Open-source core plus managed cloud API

Zep

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  • Free plan: 10,000 monthly credits, 2 projects, 200ms retrieval
  • Graph RAG with automated context assembly from chat + business data
  • Temporal knowledge graph for tracking how facts change over time

Supermemory

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  • Free monthly usage allowance plus a Supermemory MCP server
  • Native connectors for Google Drive, Notion, OneDrive as memory sources
  • Deduplication so repeated content isn't rebilled

Letta

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  • Free BYOK plan supporting up to 3 stateful agents
  • Stateful-agent runtime with persistent memory, desktop app, CLI and API
  • Open-source framework (formerly MemGPT) plus a managed cloud

Ragie

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freemium
  • Free Developer plan for personal projects/exploration
  • Managed hybrid search, entity extraction and reranking out of the box
  • Handles audio/video ingestion billed separately by duration

RAGFlow

Agent Memory & RAG-as-a-Service
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  • Open-source RAG engine with deep document parsing and agent workflows
  • Grounded citations and template-based chunking
  • Self-host with Docker; bring your own LLM

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