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Open Notebook vs RAGFlow
The same facts for both, read from GitHub every night, and the relation a person reviewed.
| Fact | Open Notebook | RAGFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Language | TypeScript | Go |
| Licence | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 40k | 92k |
| Latest | v1.15.0 | v1.0.0-rc1 |
| Last push | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-06 |
| Release cadence | about 4 days between releases | about 13 days between releases |
| Active contributors | 28 commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days | 56+ commit authors on the default branch in the last 90 days |
| Flags | none | none |
How they relate
Both replace NotebookLM. Alternatives to NotebookLM →
Full replacementOpen NotebookNotebooks of sources with chat, notes and podcast generation, on any model provider.
PartialRAGFlowChat over uploaded documents with cited sources, with layout-aware parsing, on your own server.
Open Notebook
- v1.15.02026-10-04v1.15.0 — Quiet Green, new providers and sturdier ingestion
- v1.14.02026-07-21v1.14.0 — New Providers & Hardened Provider Connections
- v1.13.02026-07-14v1.13.0 — Content Core 2.0: Our Biggest Content-Processing Upgrade
- v1.12.02026-07-12v1.12.0 — Maintainability & Correctness
- v1.11.02026-07-11v1.11.0 — Security Hardening & Quality of Life
RAGFlow
- nightly2025-12-01Release nightly created from 2400ca8eb51432b1d304266d0de9ca232d9b53fa at 2026-10-06 21:20:58+08:00pre-release
- v1.0.0-rc12026-09-29RAGFlow v1.0.0-rc1 is a preview release of v1.0.0. This release marks a comprehensive rewrite of RAGFlow in Go, deliver…
- v0.27.22026-09-10Agentic RAG: Refactored the Agentic RAG retrieval framework, significantly improving reasoning speed and benchmark perf…
- v0.27.12026-08-28New Azure DevOps connector for data sources (#18715)
- v0.27.02026-08-19Brand new document level and dataset level knowledge compilation, supporting Wiki, Graph, Tree, Page Index, Mind Map, T…
Open Notebook
✓ signed The latest release, v1.15.0, carries a signature GitHub verified.
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RAGFlow
✓ signed The latest release, v1.0.0-rc1, carries a signature GitHub verified.
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