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simple-evals Alternatives

Compare open-source alternatives to openai/simple-evals by fit, deployment, maintenance, quality, and agent readiness.

Decision Summary

openai/simple-evals has 12 alternative candidates. Top match is langchain-ai/langgraph at 100/100 because Same rag framework intent with rag overlap.

CandidatesExplicitCloudflare-readyAvg similarityTop candidate
123096langchain-ai/langgraph

Source Project

openai/simple-evals

Use openai/simple-evals when the user needs a rag framework project with library-only, local, cloud deployment options.

Python MIT Library OnlyLocalCloud

Best For

Where simple-evals fits

build RAG applications
connect private data to LLMs
index documents for retrieval

Not Best For

When to compare alternatives

edge-only Cloudflare Workers deployment without adaptation
users expecting a complete hosted product

Comparison Table

mem0ai/mem0 leads this comparison context

mem0ai/mem0 has the strongest combined agent score and maintenance profile in this comparison.

ProjectSimilarityStarsLanguageDeployQualityAgent
openai/simple-evalsSource4,637PythonLibrary Only, Local760
langchain-ai/langgraph100/10041,967PythonLibrary Only, Local7884
bytedance/deer-flow100/10082,755PythonDocker, Library Only7084
LMCache/LMCache100/10011,875PythonKubernetes, Library Only6287
huggingface/transformers96/100166,369PythonLibrary Only, Local8488
mem0ai/mem095/10065,695PythonDocker, Vercel7889

Alternative Match

langchain-ai/langgraph

100/100

Same rag framework intent with rag overlap.

Fit: Strong replacement candidate with overlapping indexed use cases.

Build resilient agents.

ExplicitRag FrameworkLibrary OnlyLocalVector Database
Replacement risklow
Adoption noteSame category, so it can be evaluated as a direct functional substitute.
Adoption noteDeployment overlap: library_only, local, cloud.
Quality78
Agent84

Alternative Match

bytedance/deer-flow

100/100

Same rag framework intent with rag overlap.

Fit: Strong replacement candidate with overlapping indexed use cases.

An open-source long-horizon SuperAgent harness that researches, codes, and creates. With the help of sandboxes, memories, tools, skill, subagents and message gateway, it handles different levels of tasks that could take minutes to hours.

ExplicitRag FrameworkLibrary OnlyLocalVector Database
Replacement risklow
Adoption noteSame category, so it can be evaluated as a direct functional substitute.
Adoption noteDeployment overlap: library_only, local, cloud.
Quality70
Agent84

Alternative Match

LMCache/LMCache

100/100

Same rag framework intent with rag overlap.

Fit: Strong replacement candidate with overlapping indexed use cases.

LMCache: Supercharge Your LLM with the Fastest KV Cache Layer

ExplicitRag FrameworkLibrary OnlyLocalVector Database
Replacement risklow
Adoption noteSame category, so it can be evaluated as a direct functional substitute.
Adoption noteDeployment overlap: library_only, local, cloud.
Quality62
Agent87

Alternative Match

huggingface/transformers

96/100

Same rag framework intent with rag overlap.

Fit: Strong replacement candidate with overlapping indexed use cases.

🤗 Transformers: the model-definition framework for state-of-the-art machine learning models in text, vision, audio, and multimodal models, for both inference and training.

Rag FrameworkLibrary OnlyLocalVector DatabaseLlm Provider
Replacement risklow
Adoption noteSame category, so it can be evaluated as a direct functional substitute.
Adoption noteDeployment overlap: library_only, local, cloud.
Quality84
Agent88

Alternative Match

mem0ai/mem0

95/100

Same rag framework intent with rag overlap.

Fit: Strong replacement candidate with overlapping indexed use cases.

The Memory Layer for AI Agents - Drop-in memory infrastructure for AI agents and apps. Context that persists. Built for production.

Rag FrameworkLibrary OnlyLocalVector DatabaseLlm Provider
Replacement risklow
Adoption noteSame category, so it can be evaluated as a direct functional substitute.
Adoption noteDeployment overlap: library_only, local.
Quality78
Agent89

Alternative Match

stanfordnlp/dspy

94/100

Same rag framework intent with rag overlap.

Fit: Strong replacement candidate with overlapping indexed use cases.

DSPy: The framework for programming—not prompting—language models

Rag FrameworkLibrary OnlyLocalVector DatabaseLlm Provider
Replacement risklow
Adoption noteSame category, so it can be evaluated as a direct functional substitute.
Adoption noteDeployment overlap: library_only, local, cloud.
Quality52
Agent82

Alternative Match

getzep/graphiti

94/100

Same rag framework intent with rag overlap.

Fit: Strong replacement candidate with overlapping indexed use cases.

Build Real-Time Knowledge Graphs for AI Agents

Rag FrameworkLibrary OnlyLocalVector DatabaseLlm Provider
Replacement risklow
Adoption noteSame category, so it can be evaluated as a direct functional substitute.
Adoption noteDeployment overlap: library_only, local, cloud.
Quality52
Agent84

Alternative Match

NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM

94/100

Same rag framework intent with rag overlap.

Fit: Strong replacement candidate with overlapping indexed use cases.

TensorRT LLM provides users with an easy-to-use Python API to define Large Language Models (LLMs) and supports state-of-the-art optimizations to perform inference efficiently on NVIDIA GPUs. TensorRT LLM also contains components to create Python and C++ runtimes that orchestrate the inference execution in a performant way.

Rag FrameworkLibrary OnlyLocalVector DatabaseLlm Provider
Replacement risklow
Adoption noteSame category, so it can be evaluated as a direct functional substitute.
Adoption noteDeployment overlap: library_only, local, cloud.
Quality51
Agent89

Alternative Match

MODSetter/SurfSense

94/100

Same rag framework intent with rag overlap.

Fit: Strong replacement candidate with overlapping indexed use cases.

Air gapped, open source NotebookLM alternative. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/ejRNvftDp9

Rag FrameworkLocalCloudVector DatabaseLlm Provider
Replacement risklow
Adoption noteSame category, so it can be evaluated as a direct functional substitute.
Adoption noteDeployment overlap: local, cloud.
Quality50
Agent85

Alternative Match

scrapy/scrapy

94/100

Same rag framework intent with rag overlap.

Fit: Strong replacement candidate with overlapping indexed use cases.

Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.

Rag FrameworkLibrary OnlyLocalVector DatabaseLlm Provider
Replacement risklow
Adoption noteSame category, so it can be evaluated as a direct functional substitute.
Adoption noteDeployment overlap: library_only, local, cloud.
Quality49
Agent85

Alternative Match

gradio-app/gradio

94/100

Same rag framework intent with rag overlap.

Fit: Strong replacement candidate with overlapping indexed use cases.

Build and share delightful machine learning apps, all in Python. 🌟 Star to support our work!

Rag FrameworkLibrary OnlyLocalVector DatabaseLlm Provider
Replacement risklow
Adoption noteSame category, so it can be evaluated as a direct functional substitute.
Adoption noteDeployment overlap: library_only, local, cloud.
Quality46
Agent87

Alternative Match

xorbitsai/inference

94/100

Same rag framework intent with rag overlap.

Fit: Strong replacement candidate with overlapping indexed use cases.

Swap GPT for any LLM by changing a single line of code. Xinference lets you run open-source, speech, and multimodal models on cloud, on-prem, or your laptop — all through one unified, production-ready inference API.

Rag FrameworkLibrary OnlyLocalVector DatabaseLlm Provider
Replacement risklow
Adoption noteSame category, so it can be evaluated as a direct functional substitute.
Adoption noteDeployment overlap: library_only, local, cloud.
Quality46
Agent88

Data Source

d1 / d1_query

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