Haystack Deepset
Haystack by deepset is an open-source AI orchestration framework and enterprise platform designed for building custom, production-grade AI agents and applications.
Our verdict
Who it's for
Build and deploy trusted sovereign AI solutions for high-impact knowledge, decisioning, and workflow automation.
Who should look elsewhere
Requires technical expertise for full customization and deployment of the open-source framework.
Pros
- +Provides full control over AI architecture, data, and models.
- +Supports sovereign deployment options including air-gapped environments.
- +Offers modularity and customizability for tailored AI solutions.
- +Designed for production-grade stability and reliability.
- +Includes comprehensive documentation and an active community.
Cons
- −Requires technical expertise for full customization and deployment of the open-source framework.
- −The enterprise platform and services are necessary for advanced support and managed infrastructure.
Key features
- ✓Custom AI Agents design and orchestration
- ✓Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with hybrid retrieval and context assembly
- ✓Enterprise Search with semantic understanding and access control
- ✓Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) with multimodal pipelines
- ✓Text-to-SQL for natural language querying of structured data
- ✓Modular AI pipeline building with custom components
- ✓Production-grade stability and serializable pipelines
- ✓Visual pipeline editor (Enterprise Platform)
Pricing
| Plan | Price | Billing | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | $0 | month | 1 workspace; 1 user; 100 pipeline hours |
| Enterprise | — | month | Unlimited workspaces; Unlimited users; Custom package |