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Cinnamon/kotaemon

Cinnamon/kotaemon is a developer tool that RepoRadar is tracking in its Knowledge Management section, currently rated Silver tier with a 'try now' verdict. Its strongest signal is workflow potential, scored 8.9 out of 10.

Score7.8
Popularity45.0
Risknone
TierSilver
Score breakdown
Usefulness7.0
Novelty6.0
Momentum5.0
Maturity6.6
Open-source/build8.4
Evidence7.2
Workflow potential8.9
Setup ease8.8

Popularity is tracked separately. Support, ads, sponsorships, and tips never affect these signals.

Why it matters

Useful for personal knowledge management or team documentation: install Kotaemon, upload your doc collection, and query it via natural language. Great as a lightweight alternative to Notion AI or custom RAG apps when you already have a local LLM running.

Who should use it

personal knowledge bases team documentation research assistants local AI users

Who should skip it

Skip Cinnamon/kotaemon if the source link, documentation, or setup requirements do not align with your current workflow or stack.

About this signal

Cinnamon/kotaemon is tracked by RepoRadar as a developer tool in the Knowledge Management section. First seen 2026-06-17; the source record was last checked on 2026-06-17. The current verdict is 'try now' with a Silver tier and easy setup difficulty. The standout signals for Cinnamon/kotaemon are workflow potential (8.9) and setup ease (8.8), while momentum (5.0) trails — that balance shapes where it fits best. This page summarizes the public evidence on the linked source page and states where additional review is still needed.

How this item is evaluated

The Cinnamon/kotaemon record combines a 7.8/10 composite score with separate popularity (45.0), risk (none), and setup (easy) signals. See the scoring methodology for the current weights and evidence definitions.

Putting this into practice? Read How to evaluate an AI tool before you adopt it for the checklist behind this score.

Risk explanation

No inherent user-impacting risk is flagged from the captured evidence.

Evidence links
Closest alternatives / related signals
rag chatbot documents gradio local-ai
Verification record

What RepoRadar actually verified

Discovered

Automated discovery and source capture. Last checked 2026-08-13T20:20:15Z.

No editorial or hands-on review is claimed. This record remains at Discovered.

Verification sources

Longitudinal intelligence

How this decision record is moving

Raw history JSON →

22 dated snapshots retained from 2026-07-17 through 2026-08-13; see the snapshot index for explicit coverage gaps. Stars, version, release, pricing, integration, risk, maintenance, verdict, score, and momentum fields remain explicit even when a source has not reported them. Repository momentum is a normalized 0–10 RepoRadar signal; GitHub stars appear only where the popularity monitor retained exact timestamped observations.

RepoRadar score7.8 current · +0.0 net
Repository momentum5.8 current · -3.2 net
GitHub stars (observed)25,697 current · +145 net
GitHub stars25,697 exact observation
Versionv0.12.0
Last release2026-05-31T04:45:39Z
Maintenancemaintained
Current risknone
Current verdicttry now
Pricing baselineNo structured commercial pricing baseline
Pricing checkedNot applicable or not recorded
Pricing freshnessNo dated commercial pricing review
Integrations baselineNo structured integrations recorded

Recent dated points

DateScoreMomentumStarsRiskVerdictMaintenance
2026-08-137.85.825,697nonetry nowmaintained
2026-08-127.87.025,695nonetry nowactive
2026-08-117.87.825,696nonetry nowactive
2026-08-107.87.825,694nonetry nowactive
2026-08-097.87.525,692nonetry nowactive
2026-08-087.87.825,692nonetry nowactive
2026-08-077.87.525,677nonetry nowactive
2026-08-067.85.0Not recordednonetry nownot recorded
2026-08-057.85.0Not recordednonetry nownot recorded
2026-08-047.87.525,677nonetry nowactive
2026-08-037.87.525,677nonetry nowactive
2026-08-027.87.825,676nonetry nowactive

Why the record changed

stars changed

Stars changed: 25695 → 25697.

maintenance changed

Maintenance changed: active → maintained.

stars changed

Stars changed: 25696 → 25695.

stars changed

Stars changed: 25694 → 25696.

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Stars changed: 25692 → 25694.

stars changed

Stars changed: 25677 → 25692.

stars changed

Stars changed: 25676 → 25677.

stars changed

Stars changed: 25673 → 25676.

stars changed

Stars changed: 25660 → 25666.

stars changed

Source-observed stars changed: 25659 → 25660. This reports the retained observation delta and does not infer why the upstream change occurred.

stars changed

Stars changed: 25552 → 25659.

maintenance changed

Maintenance changed: source_activity_not_yet_measured → active.