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LlamaIndex provides the most mature and customizable RAG pipeline — document loaders, chunking strategies, embedding pipelines, and retrieval evaluation. Better RAG control than general-purpose agent frameworks.
- Recommendation: LlamaIndex
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LlamaIndex
Data framework for LLM applications focused on ingestion, indexing, and retrieval. Strongest for RAG pipelines. LlamaCloud managed from $35/mo. LlamaIndex started as a data indexing library and evolve
Why this recommendation
LlamaIndex provides the most mature and customizable RAG pipeline — document loaders, chunking strategies, embedding pipelines, and retrieval evaluation. Better RAG control than general-purpose agent frameworks.