Knowhere review
Knowhere extracts, parses, and outputs structured chunks ready for AI Agents and RAG.
- 3.9kGitHub stars
- +90new stars, week of Oct 25
- #10in RAG, data and memory this week
Knowhere at a glance
- Category
- RAG, data and memory
- Website
- knowhereto.ai
Is Knowhere growing? Usage data
In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, Knowhere ranked #115 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #10 in RAG, data and memory, with a momentum score of 60 out of 100.
Show the weekly numbers
| Week of | New stars |
|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2026 | 144 |
| Aug 16, 2026 | 162 |
| Aug 23, 2026 | 145 |
| Aug 30, 2026 | 155 |
| Sep 6, 2026 | 267 |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 180 |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 122 |
| Sep 27, 2026 | 115 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | 53 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | 84 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | 89 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | 90 |
The Board ranks tools by four signals each week: new stars, new stars for the repo's size, added downloads and download growth beyond the market. How the ranking works.
Knowhere alternatives
Other RAG, data and memory tools on the Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum:
| Rank | Tool | Stars | Downloads/wk |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | XERJXERJ is a local-first search engine and MCP server for AI agents, packaged as one Rust binary with an Elasticsearch-compatible API. | 17.9k | – |
| #2 | MemvidMemvid is a single-file memory layer for AI agents that packages data, embeddings, search indexes, and metadata into one portable .mv2 file. | 17.3k | – |
| #3 | LEANNLEANN is a Python vector database and RAG library that recomputes embeddings on demand to keep indexes small on personal devices. | 13.7k | – |
| #4 | GraphifyGraphify is an AI coding assistant skill that turns a codebase, with its docs, PDFs, images and videos, into a queryable knowledge graph. | 140k | 480.7k |
| #5 | MarkItDownMarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility from Microsoft that converts PDFs, Office documents, images, audio and other files to… | 193.2k | 4.7M |
| #6 | FirecrawlFirecrawl is an API and open source project to search, scrape, crawl, and interact with web pages, returning LLM-ready markdown or JSON… | 197.4k | 2.9M |
Knowhere FAQ
How popular is Knowhere?
Knowhere has 3.9k GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 90 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 134 a week. That made it #10 among RAG, data and memory tools on the Devtoolwatch Board.
What are the best alternatives to Knowhere?
Other RAG, data and memory tools on the Devtoolwatch Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum: XERJ (#1), Memvid (#2), LEANN (#3), Graphify (#4), MarkItDown (#5). The alternatives table above has their numbers.
Sources
Knowhere README badge
Maintainers can show the tool's weekly Board rank in their README:
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