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 "generated": "2026-10-31",
 "repo": "infiniflow/ragflow",
 "name": "ragflow",
 "owner": "infiniflow",
 "slug": "infiniflow-ragflow",
 "github": "https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow",
 "what": "RAGFlow is an open-source Retrieval-Augmented Generation engine that fuses RAG with agent capabilities to build a context layer for LLMs. It offers deep document understanding of complex formats, template-based chunking you can inspect, Knowledge Compilation into Wikis, Graphs, Trees and Mind Maps, Agentic Retrieval with Low to Ultra thinking modes, and grounded answers with traceable citations, deployed with Docker or from source.",
 "why": "93k stars, talked about in 2 AI sources we track",
 "language": "Go",
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  "Docker 24.0.0 or later and Docker Compose v2.26.1 or later",
  "A starting machine of 4 CPU cores, 16 GB RAM and 50 GB free disk",
  "An LLM, an embedding model and a reranker, added with their service address and API key after sign-in",
  "If you use Elasticsearch, vm.max_map_count set to at least 262144"
 ],
 "audience_note": "Teams and builders who want a self-hosted question-answering system over their own documents, with citations they can check.",
 "risk": "none",
 "section": "earlier",
 "weekly_rank": null,
 "category": "Research",
 "url": "https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/infiniflow-ragflow/",
 "use_case_count": 3,
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   "id": "infiniflow-ragflow--self-host-a-chat-with-your-documents-engine",
   "title": "Self-host a chat-with-your-documents engine",
   "best": true,
   "url": "https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/infiniflow-ragflow/self-host-a-chat-with-your-documents-engine/",
   "json": "https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/u/infiniflow-ragflow/self-host-a-chat-with-your-documents-engine.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "infiniflow-ragflow--check-and-fix-how-your-documents-are-chunked",
   "title": "See and fix how your documents are chunked",
   "best": false,
   "url": "https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/infiniflow-ragflow/check-and-fix-how-your-documents-are-chunked/",
   "json": "https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/u/infiniflow-ragflow/check-and-fix-how-your-documents-are-chunked.json"
  },
  {
   "id": "infiniflow-ragflow--answer-hard-questions-with-agentic-retrieval",
   "title": "Answer multi-step questions with agentic retrieval",
   "best": false,
   "url": "https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/infiniflow-ragflow/answer-hard-questions-with-agentic-retrieval/",
   "json": "https://dedupedai.com/use-cases/u/infiniflow-ragflow/answer-hard-questions-with-agentic-retrieval.json"
  }
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 "disclaimer": "Third-party repos we don't own or vouch for. AI-generated use cases can be wrong: review everything and run at your own risk."
}