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Hasura vs LlamaIndex

Instant GraphQL + REST on your data sources — with permissions
vs. Data framework for LLMs — RAG-first with LlamaCloud + LlamaParse

Hasura websiteLlamaIndex website

Pricing tiers

Hasura

OSS (Community)
Free forever (Apache-2.0). Self-host GraphQL Engine v2.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud Free
$0. 1 project. 60 req/min. Community support.
Free
Professional
$99/mo (starts). Usage-based compute + data pass-through. Production SLAs.
$99/mo
Advanced
Custom. Multi-region, dedicated, observability, SSO.
Custom
Enterprise
Custom. On-prem / air-gap / advanced security.
Custom
Hasura website

LlamaIndex

OSS (MIT)
MIT-licensed core. Python + TypeScript. Free forever.
$0 base (usage-based)
LlamaCloud — Free
Free tier of LlamaCloud. 1,000 pages/day via LlamaParse. Basic indexing.
Free
LlamaCloud — Paid
Pay-per-page parsing + usage-based indexing. $0.003 per page (Fast mode).
$0 base (usage-based)
LlamaCloud Enterprise
Custom. SSO, SOC2, higher rate limits, private index hosting.
Custom
LlamaIndex website

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Hasura vs oss on LlamaIndex.

MetricHasuraLlamaIndex
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Hasura · 14 features

  • ActionsCustom resolvers via HTTP.
  • Data Connector HubBuild connectors to any source.
  • Event TriggersDB changes → webhook.
  • GraphQL APIAuto GraphQL over relational + NoSQL.
  • Hasura DDN (v3)Multi-source supergraph with OpenDD.
  • JWT AuthPluggable JWT verification.
  • Metadata MigrationsGit-versioned Hasura config.
  • PermissionsRow + column + session-based.
  • Query CachingEdge caching with cache-control directive.
  • Remote SchemasMerge external GraphQL into supergraph.
  • REST EndpointsTurn any GraphQL op into REST.
  • Scheduled TriggersCron + one-off webhook triggers.
  • SubscriptionsLive queries via WS.
  • Webhook AuthCustom auth via webhook.

LlamaIndex · 16 features

  • AgentsAgent patterns: ReAct, function-calling, multi-agent workflows.
  • Document Readers200+ readers for PDF, web, Google Drive, SharePoint, Notion, S3, Slack.
  • EvaluationsBuilt-in eval framework: faithfulness, context precision/recall.
  • LlamaCloudManaged indexing + retrieval platform. File connectors, auto-chunking, retrieval
  • LlamaExtractSchema-based structured extraction from unstructured docs.
  • LlamaHubCommunity marketplace of readers, tools, prompts.
  • LlamaParseBest-in-class PDF + complex document parser. Tables, math, layout preserved.
  • MultimodalImage + text models, image retrieval.
  • Node ParsersDocument chunkers: token, sentence, semantic, hierarchical.
  • Observability (OpenLLMetry)OTel-based tracing baked in.
  • Property GraphGraph-based RAG (knowledge graphs from unstructured data).
  • Query EnginesRetrieval + response synthesis combos — router, sub-question, tree, etc.
  • RAGEnd-to-end RAG patterns: ingest → index → retrieve → synthesize.
  • Tools50+ pre-built tool integrations.
  • Vector Store Integrations50+ vector DB integrations.
  • WorkflowsEvent-driven agent workflows (AgentWorkflow).

Developer interfaces

KindHasuraLlamaIndex
CLIddn CLI (v3), hasura CLI
SDKllama-index (Python), llamaindex (TS)
RESTHasura REST Endpoints, Metadata APILlamaCloud API, LlamaParse API
GRAPHQLHasura GraphQL Engine
MCPLlamaIndex MCP
OTHERData Connectors, Hasura Console
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