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📑 PageIndex: Document Index for Vectorless, Reasoning-based RAG

Updated Nov 1, 2026. Review written Nov 1, 2026 from the project's own sources; usage data refreshed every Monday.

PageIndex at a glance

Category
RAG, data and memory
Website
pageindex.ai

Is PageIndex growing? Usage data

In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, PageIndex ranked #105 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #9 in RAG, data and memory, with a momentum score of 62 out of 100.

New GitHub stars per week for PageIndex12 weeks from Aug 9, 2026: 138, 117, 126, 151, 111, 147, 118, 2.8k, 488, 226, 427, 306 new stars, an average of 427 a week.Aug 9week of Oct 25
New GitHub stars per week for the last 12 weeks, from GitHub's stargazer history (today's stargazers by the week they starred).
Show the weekly numbers
New GitHub stars per week for PageIndex
Week ofNew stars
Aug 9, 2026138
Aug 16, 2026117
Aug 23, 2026126
Aug 30, 2026151
Sep 6, 2026111
Sep 13, 2026147
Sep 20, 2026118
Sep 27, 20262.8k
Oct 4, 2026488
Oct 11, 2026226
Oct 18, 2026427
Oct 25, 2026306

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.

PageIndex alternatives

Other RAG, data and memory tools on the Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum:

RAG, data and memory ranked by momentum, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026
RankToolStarsDownloads/wk
#1XERJXERJ is a local-first search engine and MCP server for AI agents, packaged as one Rust binary with an Elasticsearch-compatible API.17.9k–
#2MemvidMemvid is a single-file memory layer for AI agents that packages data, embeddings, search indexes, and metadata into one portable .mv2 file.17.3k–
#3LEANNLEANN is a Python vector database and RAG library that recomputes embeddings on demand to keep indexes small on personal devices.13.7k–
#4GraphifyGraphify is an AI coding assistant skill that turns a codebase, with its docs, PDFs, images and videos, into a queryable knowledge graph.140k480.7k
#5MarkItDownMarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility from Microsoft that converts PDFs, Office documents, images, audio and other files to…193.2k4.7M
#6FirecrawlFirecrawl is an API and open source project to search, scrape, crawl, and interact with web pages, returning LLM-ready markdown or JSON…197.4k2.9M

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PageIndex FAQ

How popular is PageIndex?

PageIndex has 39.9k GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 306 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 427 a week. That made it #9 among RAG, data and memory tools on the Devtoolwatch Board.

What are the best alternatives to PageIndex?

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

  1. Devtoolwatch Board, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026

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