Cognee Cloud gives you the full Cognee platform — a web UI, managed pipelines, and storage — as a hosted service. If you prefer to stay local, you can also run the UI and all pipelines entirely on your own machine for free, with no account required, usingDocumentation Index
Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.cognee.ai/llms.txt
Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
cognee.start_ui().
What Cognee Cloud provides
- Managed infrastructure — Preconfigured compute, storage (PostgreSQL, LanceDB, Kuzu), and pipeline execution. No local installation required.
- Pipeline execution — Run remember, recall, forget, and the lower-level add, cognify, search operations from the UI or API.
- Web UI — Upload data, explore knowledge graphs, run searches, and manage datasets through the browser.
- Python SDK — The
cogneepackage connects to Cognee Cloud viacognee.serve(), using the same API as local Cognee. - Agent connections — Connect agent frameworks, local instances, or external data sources. See Connections.
- Multi-tenancy — Dataset-level isolation with role-based access control. See Permissions.
Hosted cloud vs. free local UI
| Hosted Cloud | Local UI (free) | |
|---|---|---|
| Account required | Yes | No |
| Infrastructure | Managed | Your machine |
| Collaboration | Yes | No |
| Same UI & pipelines | Yes | Yes |
- Hosted Cognee Cloud — Managed infrastructure, storage, and compute. Sign up at platform.cognee.ai.
- Local UI (free) — Run the full UI on your own machine with
pip install cogneeand one function call. No account, no cloud.
Relationship to Cognee OSS
Cognee Cloud uses the same concepts, operations, and API patterns as open-source Cognee. The difference is deployment:- Cognee Cloud — Hosted persistence, managed compute, collaboration features.
- Open-source Cognee — Local development, custom infrastructure, air-gapped environments.
cognee.serve().
Get started
Try the UI for free
Run the Cognee Cloud UI on your own machine — no account required.
Create an account
Sign up and generate an API key.
Quick start
Upload data, build a knowledge graph, and run your first search.
Navigating the UI
Learn what each page in the Cognee Cloud console does.
Cloud functionality
Explore the API endpoints available in Cognee Cloud.
Connections
Connect agents, databases, or a local instance.
Architecture
How Modal compute, storage services, and datasets fit together.