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Cognita

Modular framework for production-ready RAG systems

Self-Hosted AI Archived ★ 4.4k stars Medium setup Apache-2.0

This project is archived. Upstream development has stopped, so expect no new features or security fixes. Consider an actively maintained self-hosted ai alternative.

Cognita is an open-source RAG framework that organizes retrieval-augmented generation code into reusable, modular components. It offers a UI for non-technical users and APIs for developers building document-grounded AI applications.

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Key features

  • Modular RAG components
  • No-code UI
  • Multiple vector store support
  • Incremental indexing

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Released under the Apache-2.0 license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Active community (4.4k GitHub stars)
  • Written in Python

Trade-offs

  • Younger ecosystem
  • Documentation gaps

Is Cognita secure?

OSV.dev lists 2 published advisories for Cognita. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2025-27519, published 2025-03-07 (586 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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