Project comparison
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents.
Best matched with other interface tools.
🐙 Guides, papers, lessons, notebooks and resources for prompt engineering, context engineering, RAG, and AI Agents.
Best matched with other interface tools.
Prompt Engineering Guide has the larger GitHub footprint with 78.8K stars.
Prompt Engineering Guide is currently growing faster at +742 stars this week.
Kotaemon has the stronger automated maintenance signal at 56/100. This is not a security or fit verdict.
Use these signals to narrow your choice, then confirm setup, license, and fit upstream.
| Signal | Kotaemon | Prompt Engineering Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Evidence status | Basic listing· 2026-10-04 09:17 UTC | Basic listing· 2026-10-04 09:18 UTC |
| GitHub stars | 25.6K | 78.8K |
| Weekly growth | +200 | +742 |
| Health score | Watch56/100 | Watch53/100 |
| Contributors | 39 | 212 |
| Commits per week | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Open issues | 236 | 288 |
| Language | Python | MDX |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Last commit | 2026-07-14 16:53 UTC | 2026-03-11 20:09 UTC |
| Last release | v0.12.0 | N/A |
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