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Haystack

Production-ready open-source framework for RAG pipelines and AI agents.

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About

deepset's open-source Python framework for building production-ready LLM applications around composable, typed-component pipelines. Its core abstraction is a pipeline DAG (embedders, retrievers, rankers, routers, generators, agents) with 100+ components, vendor-agnostic model integrations, and a built-in evaluation framework.

Hayhooks can expose pipelines as REST or MCP endpoints (verified in README); deepset sells an Enterprise Platform for managed deployments. Apache-2.0 licensed.

What it can do

  • Modular pipeline DAGs with typed sockets, branching, loops, and conditional routing
  • 24 component categories incl. 9 retriever variants; built-in in-memory BM25/embedding stores
  • Model- and vendor-agnostic: OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Cohere, Hugging Face, Google, Azure, Bedrock, local models
  • Built-in RAG evaluation framework; agent lifecycle hooks and token/step tracking for cost control
  • Tool calling agents (Tool/Toolset/ComponentTool), memory, human-in-the-loop package
  • Hayhooks: expose pipelines/agents as REST APIs, MCP servers, or OpenAI-compatible endpoints

Setup

  1. Run pip install haystack-ai, plus integration packages for your stack (e.g. chroma-haystack, openai-haystack).
  2. Choose a document store: built-in InMemoryDocumentStore for dev, or a vector DB integration for production.
  3. Build a pipeline by connecting typed components (embedder → retriever → ranker → generator) into a DAG.
  4. Set provider API keys for your generators/embedders.
  5. Run the pipeline (sync or async with token streaming); evaluate quality with the built-in evaluators.
  6. (Optional) Wrap the pipeline with Hayhooks to serve it as a REST API or MCP server.

Prerequisites

Python 3.x; model-provider API keys; a document store (in-memory built-in for dev).

Use cases

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Works with

Generic API

Trust score — 9/10

/10 trustVerified

Official deepset project, Apache-2.0, 26.7k+ stars, 6.5k+ commits with ongoing releases, strong docs, CI, and OpenSSF best-practice badges. Vendor-agnostic by design and backed by an enterprise company, so lock-in and abandonment risk are low. Minor caveats: it collects anonymous component-init telemetry (opt-out documented), and the ecosystem is smaller than LangChain's. The vendor's customer-logo list is provider-claimed.

★ 26,725 GitHub stars

How the trust score is built

Full methodology →
Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
8.3/10
Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
9.8/10
Openness · license + docs
10.0/10
Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
9.0/10
  • · 26,725 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
  • · blended with ~566,454 monthly package downloads
  • · last push 0d ago; 55 releases/12mo; 158 open issues
  • · manual review: telemetry opt-out documented; smaller ecosystem

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