Which is more popular, Cognee or Dolphin?

Cognee has more GitHub stars (31,301 vs 9,058).

Which is more actively developed, Cognee or Dolphin?

Cognee had more commits in the last 90 days (2,427 vs 0).

Compare their capabilities, limitations and "best for" notes above. Trying each on a small task is the fastest way to decide.

Side-by-side comparison of two AI agent tools

Dolphin has had no commit in 6 months; Cognee is actively maintained (2,427 commits in the last 90 days).
Cognee is growing faster: +2,637 GitHub stars in the last 30 days vs +28 for Dolphin.
Pick Cognee for: knowledge Engine for AI Agent Memory in 6 lines of code. Pick Dolphin for: the official repo for “Dolphin: Document Image Parsing via Heterogeneous Anchor Prompting”, ACL, 2025.

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Knowledge Engine for AI Agent Memory in 6 lines of code

The official repo for “Dolphin: Document Image Parsing via Heterogeneous Anchor Prompting”, ACL, 2025.

+Universal document parsing capability that handles both digital and photographed documents seamlessly
+Advanced two-stage architecture with document-type-aware parsing strategies optimized for different document formats
+Comprehensive 21-element detection including complex elements like formulas, code blocks, and tables with attribute field extraction

-Research-focused tool that may require significant technical expertise to implement and integrate
-Relatively new release with limited production use cases and community feedback
-Large model size (3B parameters) may require substantial computational resources for deployment

•Academic research document digitization and content extraction from PDFs and scanned papers
•Enterprise document processing for complex reports, invoices, and forms with mixed content types
•Automated parsing of technical documentation containing code snippets, mathematical formulas, and diagrams

Which is more popular, Cognee or Dolphin?: Cognee has more GitHub stars (31,301 vs 9,058).
Which is more actively developed, Cognee or Dolphin?: Cognee had more commits in the last 90 days (2,427 vs 0).
Should I use Cognee or Dolphin?: Compare their capabilities, limitations and "best for" notes above. Trying each on a small task is the fastest way to decide.