LangChain vs Haystack vs Hal vs LlamaIndex

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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LangChain
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Haystack
Competitor 2
Hal
Competitor 3
LlamaIndex
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool LangChain
langchain.com
Framework for building with large language models
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Competitor Haystack
haystack.deepset.ai
Haystack is an open-source AI orchestration framework from deepset for building production-grade LLM applications and agents.
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Competitor Hal
hal9.com
Hal9 is a powerful platform for quickly building and deploying fully customizable AI chatbots, powered by your data with complete privacy. In just under 5 minutes, you can create a tailored chatbot t
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Competitor LlamaIndex
llamaindex.ai
Connect AI to your data
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
3.4Mvisits/mo
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3.4Kvisits/mo
324Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 0.7%
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▼ 10.9%
▼ 21.0%
6-month growth
+21.0%
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+60.6%
-29.5%
Global rank web
#13,384
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#6,156,551
#118,014
Avg. last 3 months
3.3M
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3.9K
398.3K
Bounce rate lower is better
42%
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39%
46%
Pages / visit
6.2
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1.1
2.8
Visit duration
5m 29s
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1m 57s
Traffic sources
● Direct 73% · ● Referral 24%
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● Direct 74% · ● Referral 20%
LangChainHaystackHalLlamaIndex
0850.7K1.7M2.6M3.4MLangChain · 3MLangChain · 2.9MLangChain · 3.2MLangChain · 2.8MLangChain · 3.4MLangChain · 3.2MLangChain · 3.1MLangChain · 3.4MLangChain · 3.4MHal · 934Hal · 2.1KHal · 1.3KHal · 2.1KHal · 6.4KHal · 6.9KHal · 4.5KHal · 3.8KHal · 3.4KLlamaIndex · 438.2KLlamaIndex · 470.7KLlamaIndex · 444KLlamaIndex · 423.8KLlamaIndex · 459.5KLlamaIndex · 421.3KLlamaIndex · 455KLlamaIndex · 461KLlamaIndex · 410KLlamaIndex · 324K1001K10K100K1M10MLangChain · 3MLangChain · 2.9MLangChain · 3.2MLangChain · 2.8MLangChain · 3.4MLangChain · 3.2MLangChain · 3.1MLangChain · 3.4MLangChain · 3.4MHal · 934Hal · 2.1KHal · 1.3KHal · 2.1KHal · 6.4KHal · 6.9KHal · 4.5KHal · 3.8KHal · 3.4KLlamaIndex · 438.2KLlamaIndex · 470.7KLlamaIndex · 444KLlamaIndex · 423.8KLlamaIndex · 459.5KLlamaIndex · 421.3KLlamaIndex · 455KLlamaIndex · 461KLlamaIndex · 410KLlamaIndex · 324KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
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Freemium
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Starting price
$39per month · free tier available
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$2,000per month
Free tier
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Plans
Developer FreePlus $39/moEnterprise Custom/mo
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Startups $2,000/mo
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeDocuments
CodeText
DocumentsImages
Output
Apps
Apps
Apps
DataText
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Intermediate
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Developer Tools+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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12
Agents
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LLM development
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Agent creation
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Development
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Chatbot building
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Data extraction
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Document data extraction
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Document processing
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RAG
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Document chat
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OCR
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Text extraction
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Agent memory
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Information retrieval
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Medical data extraction
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