Cognita Review — Self-Hosted AI Tool
Our review of Cognita — features, strengths, and trade-offs.
Cognita is a modular open-source RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) framework by TrueFoundry for building production-grade knowledge applications. It ships with a ready-to-use frontend UI, 30+ data loaders, support for multiple vector databases like Qdrant, hybrid search, and local LLM inference through Ollama. Cognita lets you ingest data from PDFs, websites, and databases, experiment with embeddings and rerankers, evaluate retrieval quality, and deploy your RAG stack with Docker Compose - all under an Apache-2.0 license.