# LlamaIndex

> Framework for connecting LLMs and agents to your own documents and data.

## Facts
- **Category:** [Agent Frameworks](https://agentsearchengine.app/category/agent-frameworks)
- **Type:** Framework
- **Pricing:** Open source
- **GitHub stars:** 52,282
- **License:** MIT
- **Last repo activity:** today (Sep 22, 2026)
- **Official site:** https://developers.llamaindex.ai
- **Source code:** https://github.com/run-llama/llama_index
- **Listing on Agent Search Engine:** https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/llamaindex
- **Data verified:** September 2026

## Best for
Retrieval-heavy applications where the hard part is getting your own documents and data into an agent reliably.

## Avoid if
Your agent does not read private data, in which case most of the framework goes unused.

## About LlamaIndex
LlamaIndex provides ingestion, indexing, retrieval and query engines for building RAG and agent applications over private data, plus workflow primitives for multi-step agents. The open-source Python framework is MIT licensed; LlamaCloud and LlamaParse are the company's separate hosted, paid services.

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