Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/gastownhall/beads/vs/infiniflow/ragflow
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/gastownhall/beads/vs/infiniflow/ragflow.md
Description: beads and ragflow share 5 technologies: net/http, MySQL, github.com/yuin/goldmark, OpenTelemetry, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace. Both are written in Go.

# beads vs ragflow

beads and ragflow share 5 technologies: net/http, MySQL, github.com/yuin/goldmark, OpenTelemetry, and go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace. Both are written in Go.

- [gastownhall/beads](https://seerepo.com/r/gastownhall/beads): Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
- [infiniflow/ragflow](https://seerepo.com/r/infiniflow/ragflow): RAGFlow is an agent-native database: a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) engine that grew into context infrastructure.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: net/http, MySQL, github.com/yuin/goldmark, OpenTelemetry, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace
- Only in beads: go-sqlite3, SQLite, Anthropic, fastmcp, charm.land/lipgloss/v2, charm.land/glamour/v2, charm.land/huh/v2, github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown/v2, github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday, Pydantic, github.com/invopop/jsonschema, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlpmetric/otlpmetrichttp, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/stdout/stdoutmetric, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk, go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric
- Only in ragflow: Gin, elasticsearch-dsl, go-redis, mysql-connector-python, pgx, pq, s3, github.com/glebarez/sqlite, Postgres, NATS.io, Redis, github.com/infiniflow/infinity-go-sdk, github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/aws/protocol/eventstream, github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/storage/azblob, github.com/denisenkom/go-mssqldb, Google, AWS S3, MCP, Alibaba Cloud, MinIO, AIOHTTP, werkzeug, React, React Router, OpenAI, peewee, gorm.io/gorm, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials, golang.org/x/oauth2, github.com/golang-jwt/jwt/v5, Model Context Protocol, github.com/cloudwego/eino, github.com/infiniflow/onnxruntime_go, github.com/pkoukk/tiktoken-go, github.com/eric642/e2b-go-sdk, github.com/LuxorLabs/tenki-sdk-go/sandbox, github.com/xuri/excelize/v2, github.com/ledongthuc/pdf, github.com/gomarkdown/markdown, github.com/jloor/go-excel-reader, github.com/yfedoseev/office_oxide/go, github.com/AkmalOt/gomsg, github.com/emersion/go-imap/v2, github.com/emersion/go-message, github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown, github.com/nikolalohinski/gonja, github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery, github.com/richardlehane/mscfb, github.com/signintech/gopdf, github.com/yfedoseev/pdf_oxide/go, golang.org/x/image, reportlab, github.com/eino-contrib/jsonschema, beartype, go.uber.org/zap, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config, github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sts, go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp, github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/sdk/azcore, github.com/ucloud/ucloud-sandbox-sdk-go, gopkg.in/natefinch/lumberjack.v2, qrcode, Tailwind CSS, classnames, class-variance-authority, tailwind-merge, next-themes, React Hook Form, xyflow, Radix UI, lexical, tanstack, @monaco-editor/react, react-syntax-highlighter, react18-json-view, sonner, AntV, react-force-graph-2d, react-day-picker, react-photo-view, react-copy-to-clipboard, recharts, @floating-ui/react, cmdk, D3, embla-carousel-react, jsoneditor, Mermaid, react-audio-voice-recorder, react-dropzone, react-resizable-panels, Lucide, Ant Design, @lexical/markdown, dompurify, react-markdown, react-pdf-highlighter, rehype-katex, rehype-raw, unist-util-visit-parents, xlsx, papaparse, remark-gfm, @extend-ai/react-docx, @js-preview/excel, @uiw/react-markdown-preview, epubjs, hast-util-sanitize, pptx-preview, rehype-sanitize, remark-breaks, remark-math, Zod, @hookform/resolvers, Ajv, ajv-formats

## Side by side

| | beads | ragflow |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 1,299,687 lines written, 1,440 code files | 1,311,499 lines written, 2,858 code files |
| Who writes it | 41.4% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Amp, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Factory, Devin, and Kilo Code | 2.1% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, CodeRabbit, GitHub Copilot, Kilo Code, Codex, OpenHands, and Factory |
| Activity | Last push November 8, 2026, 10,396 commits, 28,583 stars | Last push November 9, 2026, 10,898 commits, 93,816 stars |
| Tests | 2,621 test files. 86.1% of its code files have a test that imports them | 2,014 test files. 51.5% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, beads or ragflow?

ragflow, with 1,311,499 lines written; beads has 1,299,687.

The proof: [infiniflow/ragflow's code at commit 4ba8d80](https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/tree/4ba8d801e990bce53cf5422bbf0eb002150d5ee1)

### Which has more GitHub stars, beads or ragflow?

ragflow, with 93,816 stars; beads has 28,583.

The proof: [infiniflow/ragflow on GitHub](https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow)

### Which has more tests, beads or ragflow?

beads, with 2,621 test files; ragflow has 2,014.

The proof: [gastownhall/beads's code at commit 2edea9c](https://github.com/gastownhall/beads/tree/2edea9ced8c6f6124b6c157896ae53a0e09ff7be)

### Which was updated more recently, beads or ragflow?

ragflow: its last push was on November 9, 2026, and beads's on November 8, 2026.

The proof: [infiniflow/ragflow's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, beads or ragflow?

beads: an AI signed 41.4% of its commits, with Claude Code, Amp, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codex, Factory, Devin, and Kilo Code; in ragflow, 2.1%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in gastownhall/beads](https://seerepo.com/r/gastownhall/beads/ai)

## Sources

- gastownhall/beads: Read on November 8, 2026, at commit 2edea9c (https://github.com/gastownhall/beads/tree/2edea9ced8c6f6124b6c157896ae53a0e09ff7be)
- infiniflow/ragflow: Read on November 9, 2026, at commit 4ba8d80 (https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/tree/4ba8d801e990bce53cf5422bbf0eb002150d5ee1)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.