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What are Context Engineering Tools?
Context engineering tools are specialized frameworks and technologies that manage the information environment surrounding large language models (LLMs) to enhance their performance in complex tasks. Unlike traditional prompt engineering, which focuses on crafting individual inputs, context engineering involves dynamically assembling and structuring relevant data—such as user history, external documents, and real-time inputs—to ensure accurate and coherent outputs. This approach is foundational in building agentic AI systems, enabling them to perform multi-step reasoning, maintain state across interactions, and integrate external tools or APIs seamlessly. By orchestrating the flow of information and memory, context engineering tools help mitigate issues like hallucinations and ensure that AI systems deliver consistent, reliable, and context-aware responses. Compare and read user reviews of the best Context Engineering tools currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Rasa
Rasa Technologies
Rasa is the leader in generative conversational AI, empowering enterprises to optimize customer service processes and reduce costs by enabling next-level AI assistant development and operation at scale. The platform combines pro-code and no-code options, allowing cross-team collaboration for smarter and faster AI assistant building and significantly accelerating time-to-value. Through its unique approach, Rasa transparently leverages an LLM-native dialogue engine, making it a reliable and innovative partner for enterprises seeking to significantly enhance their customer interactions with seamless conversational experiences. Rasa provides the data privacy, security, and scalability that Fortune 500 enterprise customers need.Starting Price: Free and open source -
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LangChain
LangChain
LangChain is a powerful, composable framework designed for building, running, and managing applications powered by large language models (LLMs). It offers an array of tools for creating context-aware, reasoning applications, allowing businesses to leverage their own data and APIs to enhance functionality. LangChain’s suite includes LangGraph for orchestrating agent-driven workflows, and LangSmith for agent observability and performance management. Whether you're building prototypes or scaling full applications, LangChain offers the flexibility and tools needed to optimize the LLM lifecycle, with seamless integrations and fault-tolerant scalability. -
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Zilliz Cloud
Zilliz
Zilliz Cloud is a fully managed vector database based on the popular open-source Milvus. Zilliz Cloud helps to unlock high-performance similarity searches with no previous experience or extra effort needed for infrastructure management. It is ultra-fast and enables 10x faster vector retrieval, a feat unparalleled by any other vector database management system. Zilliz includes support for multiple vector search indexes, built-in filtering, and complete data encryption in transit, a requirement for enterprise-grade applications. Zilliz is a cost-effective way to build similarity search, recommender systems, and anomaly detection into applications to keep that competitive edge.Starting Price: $0 -
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Weaviate
Weaviate
Weaviate is an open-source vector database. It allows you to store data objects and vector embeddings from your favorite ML-models, and scale seamlessly into billions of data objects. Whether you bring your own vectors or use one of the vectorization modules, you can index billions of data objects to search through. Combine multiple search techniques, such as keyword-based and vector search, to provide state-of-the-art search experiences. Improve your search results by piping them through LLM models like GPT-3 to create next-gen search experiences. Beyond search, Weaviate's next-gen vector database can power a wide range of innovative apps. Perform lightning-fast pure vector similarity search over raw vectors or data objects, even with filters. Combine keyword-based search with vector search techniques for state-of-the-art results. Use any generative model in combination with your data, for example to do Q&A over your dataset.Starting Price: Free -
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Vespa
Vespa.ai
Vespa is forBig Data + AI, online. At any scale, with unbeatable performance. To build production-worthy online applications that combine data and AI, you need more than point solutions: You need a platform that integrates data and compute to achieve true scalability and availability - and which does this without limiting your freedom to innovate. Only Vespa does this. Vespa is a fully featured search engine and vector database. It supports vector search (ANN), lexical search, and search in structured data, all in the same query. Users can easily build recommendation applications on Vespa. Integrated machine-learned model inference allows you to apply AI to make sense of your data in real-time. Together with Vespa's proven scaling and high availability, this empowers you to create production-ready search applications at any scale and with any combination of features.Starting Price: Free -
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LangGraph
LangChain
Gain precision and control with LangGraph to build agents that reliably handle complex tasks. Build and scale agentic applications with LangGraph Platform. LangGraph's flexible framework supports diverse control flows – single agent, multi-agent, hierarchical, sequential – and robustly handles realistic, complex scenarios. Ensure reliability with easy-to-add moderation and quality loops that prevent agents from veering off course. Use LangGraph Platform to templatize your cognitive architecture so that tools, prompts, and models are easily configurable with LangGraph Platform Assistants. With built-in statefulness, LangGraph agents seamlessly collaborate with humans by writing drafts for review and awaiting approval before acting. Easily inspect the agent’s actions and "time-travel" to roll back and take a different action to correct course.Starting Price: Free -
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Milvus
Zilliz
Vector database built for scalable similarity search. Open-source, highly scalable, and blazing fast. Store, index, and manage massive embedding vectors generated by deep neural networks and other machine learning (ML) models. With Milvus vector database, you can create a large-scale similarity search service in less than a minute. Simple and intuitive SDKs are also available for a variety of different languages. Milvus is hardware efficient and provides advanced indexing algorithms, achieving a 10x performance boost in retrieval speed. Milvus vector database has been battle-tested by over a thousand enterprise users in a variety of use cases. With extensive isolation of individual system components, Milvus is highly resilient and reliable. The distributed and high-throughput nature of Milvus makes it a natural fit for serving large-scale vector data. Milvus vector database adopts a systemic approach to cloud-nativity, separating compute from storage.Starting Price: Free -
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AI21 Studio
AI21 Studio
AI21 Studio provides API access to Jurassic-1 large-language-models. Our models power text generation and comprehension features in thousands of live applications. Take on any language task. Our Jurassic-1 models are trained to follow natural language instructions and require just a few examples to adapt to new tasks. Use our specialized APIs for common tasks like summarization, paraphrasing and more. Access superior results at a lower cost without reinventing the wheel. Need to fine-tune your own custom model? You're just 3 clicks away. Training is fast, affordable and trained models are deployed immediately. Give your users superpowers by embedding an AI co-writer in your app. Drive user engagement and success with features like long-form draft generation, paraphrasing, repurposing and custom auto-complete.Starting Price: $29 per month -
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PromptLayer
PromptLayer
The first platform built for prompt engineers. Log OpenAI requests, search usage history, track performance, and visually manage prompt templates. manage Never forget that one good prompt. GPT in prod, done right. Trusted by over 1,000 engineers to version prompts and monitor API usage. Start using your prompts in production. To get started, create an account by clicking “log in” on PromptLayer. Once logged in, click the button to create an API key and save this in a secure location. After making your first few requests, you should be able to see them in the PromptLayer dashboard! You can use PromptLayer with LangChain. LangChain is a popular Python library aimed at assisting in the development of LLM applications. It provides a lot of helpful features like chains, agents, and memory. Right now, the primary way to access PromptLayer is through our Python wrapper library that can be installed with pip.Starting Price: Free -
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Chroma
Chroma
Chroma is an AI-native open-source embedding database. Chroma has all the tools you need to use embeddings. Chroma is building the database that learns. Pick up an issue, create a PR, or participate in our Discord and let the community know what features you would like.Starting Price: Free -
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Flowise
Flowise AI
Flowise is an open-source, low-code platform that enables developers to create customized Large Language Model (LLM) applications through a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface. It supports integration with various LLMs, including LangChain and LlamaIndex, and offers over 100 integrations to facilitate the development of AI agents and orchestration flows. Flowise provides APIs, SDKs, and embedded widgets for seamless incorporation into existing systems, and is platform-agnostic, allowing deployment in air-gapped environments with local LLMs and vector databases.Starting Price: Free -
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LanceDB
LanceDB
LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open source database for AI. From hyperscalable vector search and advanced retrieval for RAG to streaming training data and interactive exploration of large-scale AI datasets, LanceDB is the best foundation for your AI application. Installs in seconds and fits seamlessly into your existing data and AI toolchain. An embedded database (think SQLite or DuckDB) with native object storage integration, LanceDB can be deployed anywhere and easily scales to zero when not in use. From rapid prototyping to hyper-scale production, LanceDB delivers blazing-fast performance for search, analytics, and training for multimodal AI data. Leading AI companies have indexed billions of vectors and petabytes of text, images, and videos, at a fraction of the cost of other vector databases. More than just embedding. Filter, select, and stream training data directly from object storage to keep GPU utilization high.Starting Price: $16.03 per month -
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Semantic Kernel
Microsoft
Semantic Kernel is a lightweight, open-source development kit that lets you easily build AI agents and integrate the latest AI models into your C#, Python, or Java codebase. It serves as an efficient middleware that enables rapid delivery of enterprise-grade solutions. Microsoft and other Fortune 500 companies are already leveraging Semantic Kernel because it’s flexible, modular, and observable. Backed with security-enhancing capabilities like telemetry support, hooks, and filters you’ll feel confident you’re delivering responsible AI solutions at scale. Version 1.0+ support across C#, Python, and Java means it’s reliable, and committed to nonbreaking changes. Any existing chat-based APIs are easily expanded to support additional modalities like voice and video. Semantic Kernel was designed to be future-proof, easily connecting your code to the latest AI models evolving with the technology as it advances.Starting Price: Free -
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Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Anthropic
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol designed to standardize how applications provide context to large language models (LLMs). It acts as a universal connector, similar to a USB-C port, allowing LLMs to seamlessly integrate with various data sources and tools. MCP supports a client-server architecture, enabling programs (clients) to interact with lightweight servers that expose specific capabilities. With growing pre-built integrations and flexibility to switch between LLM vendors, MCP helps users build complex workflows and AI agents while ensuring secure data management within their infrastructure.Starting Price: Free -
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Pinecone
Pinecone
The AI Knowledge Platform. The Pinecone Database, Inference, and Assistant make building high-performance vector search apps easy. Developer-friendly, fully managed, and easily scalable without infrastructure hassles. Once you have vector embeddings, manage and search through them in Pinecone to power semantic search, recommenders, and other applications that rely on relevant information retrieval. Ultra-low query latency, even with billions of items. Give users a great experience. Live index updates when you add, edit, or delete data. Your data is ready right away. Combine vector search with metadata filters for more relevant and faster results. Launch, use, and scale your vector search service with our easy API, without worrying about infrastructure or algorithms. We'll keep it running smoothly and securely. -
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Botpress
Botpress
The Leading Conversational AI Platform for Enterprise Automation. Botpress is a flexible, fully on-premise conversational platform for enterprises to automate conversations & workflows. Our NLU technology significantly outperforms the competitors and leads to much higher levels of customer satisfaction. Built-in collaboration with large enterprises. Whether you are a Bank or the National Defence, we got you covered. Botpress has been battle-tested by thousands of developers. You can trust it's been proven to be flexible, secure and highly scalable. With Botpress, you won’t need to hire PhD’s for your conversational projects. Our job is to keep track of the latest state-of-the-art research papers in the various fields of NLP, NLU & NDU and to deliver that in a product that non-technical people can use seamlessly. It just works. -
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Qdrant
Qdrant
Qdrant is a vector similarity engine & vector database. It deploys as an API service providing search for the nearest high-dimensional vectors. With Qdrant, embeddings or neural network encoders can be turned into full-fledged applications for matching, searching, recommending, and much more! Provides the OpenAPI v3 specification to generate a client library in almost any programming language. Alternatively utilise ready-made client for Python or other programming languages with additional functionality. Implement a unique custom modification of the HNSW algorithm for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search. Search with a State-of-the-Art speed and apply search filters without compromising on results. Support additional payload associated with vectors. Not only stores payload but also allows filter results based on payload values. -
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LlamaIndex
LlamaIndex
LlamaIndex is a “data framework” to help you build LLM apps. Connect semi-structured data from API's like Slack, Salesforce, Notion, etc. LlamaIndex is a simple, flexible data framework for connecting custom data sources to large language models. LlamaIndex provides the key tools to augment your LLM applications with data. Connect your existing data sources and data formats (API's, PDF's, documents, SQL, etc.) to use with a large language model application. Store and index your data for different use cases. Integrate with downstream vector store and database providers. LlamaIndex provides a query interface that accepts any input prompt over your data and returns a knowledge-augmented response. Connect unstructured sources such as documents, raw text files, PDF's, videos, images, etc. Easily integrate structured data sources from Excel, SQL, etc. Provides ways to structure your data (indices, graphs) so that this data can be easily used with LLMs. -
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Haystack
deepset
Apply the latest NLP technology to your own data with the use of Haystack's pipeline architecture. Implement production-ready semantic search, question answering, summarization and document ranking for a wide range of NLP applications. Evaluate components and fine-tune models. Ask questions in natural language and find granular answers in your documents using the latest QA models with the help of Haystack pipelines. Perform semantic search and retrieve ranked documents according to meaning, not just keywords! Make use of and compare the latest pre-trained transformer-based languages models like OpenAI’s GPT-3, BERT, RoBERTa, DPR, and more. Build semantic search and question-answering applications that can scale to millions of documents. Building blocks for the entire product development cycle such as file converters, indexing functions, models, labeling tools, domain adaptation modules, and REST API. -
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LangSmith
LangChain
Unexpected results happen all the time. With full visibility into the entire chain sequence of calls, you can spot the source of errors and surprises in real time with surgical precision. Software engineering relies on unit testing to build performant, production-ready applications. LangSmith provides that same functionality for LLM applications. Spin up test datasets, run your applications over them, and inspect results without having to leave LangSmith. LangSmith enables mission-critical observability with only a few lines of code. LangSmith is designed to help developers harness the power–and wrangle the complexity–of LLMs. We’re not only building tools. We’re establishing best practices you can rely on. Build and deploy LLM applications with confidence. Application-level usage stats. Feedback collection. Filter traces, cost and performance measurement. Dataset curation, compare chain performance, AI-assisted evaluation, and embrace best practices.
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