# txtai

> An all-in-one Python framework for semantic search, LLM orchestration and language-model workflows.

## Facts
- **Category:** [Agent Frameworks](https://agentsearchengine.app/category/agent-frameworks)
- **Type:** Framework
- **Pricing:** Open source
- **GitHub stars:** 12,969
- **Language:** Python
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Last repo activity:** today (Sep 22, 2026)
- **Official site:** https://neuml.github.io/txtai
- **Source code:** https://github.com/neuml/txtai
- **Listing on Agent Search Engine:** https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/txtai
- **Data verified:** September 2026

## Best for
Self-hosted semantic search and RAG with agents in a single Python library.

## About txtai
txtai is built around an embeddings database that unites sparse and dense vector indexes, graph networks and relational storage. On that foundation it provides vector search with SQL, embeddings for text, documents, audio, images and video, LLM pipelines for question answering, labelling, transcription, translation and summarisation, workflows, and agents and RAG.

## Install

```
pip install txtai
```

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