Haystack - AI Agent Frameworks Tool

Overview

Haystack is an open-source LLM orchestration framework by deepset-ai for building production-ready applications. It enables developers to create RAG, question answering, semantic search, and conversational agents by connecting models, vector databases, file converters, and other components into customizable pipelines.

Key Features

  • Open-source LLM orchestration framework by deepset-ai
  • Build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications
  • Create question answering systems and conversational agents
  • Enable semantic search across document collections
  • Connect models, vector databases, and file converters
  • Compose customizable, production-ready pipelines
  • Support integration of third-party components and custom modules

Ideal Use Cases

  • Implement retrieval-augmented generation combining retrieval and LLM responses
  • Deploy document question-answering systems
  • Build enterprise semantic search over large document sets
  • Create conversational agents with integrated knowledge sources
  • Integrate custom models and vector stores into pipelines

Getting Started

  • Visit the GitHub repository and read the README and docs
  • Install project dependencies as documented in the repository
  • Connect your LLMs, vector databases, and file converters
  • Assemble components into a customizable pipeline
  • Run example pipelines and test with your data
  • Adapt pipelines and deploy for production use

Pricing

No pricing disclosed. Haystack is open-source; any costs depend on infrastructure and third-party services used.

Limitations

  • Not a hosted SaaS; requires developer setup and infrastructure
  • Requires integration of external models and vector stores
  • May require engineering expertise to configure and optimize pipelines

Key Information

  • Category: Agent Frameworks
  • Type: AI Agent Frameworks Tool