15 Best RAG Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Rag courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $49.00. 2 come from a named university or institution, including IBM and Duke University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $9.99 – $49.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to this topic by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $9.99 to $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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RAG and Agentic AI Capstone Project
Offered by IBM
Demonstrate you have the job-ready skills to design and implement a complete AI system from data to deployment, with this portfolio-worthy RAG and Agentic AI Capstone Project from IBM. You’ll design and build a productio...
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Introduction to Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Offered by Duke University
In this 2-hour project-based course, you will learn how to import data into Pandas, create embeddings with SentenceTransformers, and build a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) system with your data, Qdrant, and an LLM...
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Vector Databases for RAG: An Introduction
Offered by IBM
Gain expertise in using vector databases and improve your data retrieval skills in this hands-on course! During the course, you’ll explore the fundamental principles of similarity search and vector databases, learn how t...
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Mastering DeepSeek.ai: From Fundamentals to Advanced Skills
Offered by Board Infinity
This Specialization equips learners with the skills to build, integrate, and deploy AI-powered applications and intelligent agents using DeepSeek. Through hands-on projects, learners will explore real-world use cases, au...
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RAG Systems & Agentic Workflows with Pinecone and LangGraph
Offered by Board Infinity
This Retrieval Systems, RAG, and Agentic Workflows course equips you with the skills to build intelligent AI systems that retrieve, reason, and respond using real-world data. You'll work with tools like ChromaDB, Pinecon...
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Multimodal RAG with GPT – Build Smarter Search & AI Systems
Offered by Packt
Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as yo...
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Agentic AI Engineering: RAG, MCP & MERN
Offered by LearnKartS
What if your AI couldthink, decide, and act—not just respond? Welcome toAgentic AI Engineering, a hands-on specialization designed to help you buildautonomous, production-ready AI systems. Unlike traditional AI courses t...
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Getting Started with Mistral
Offered by DeepLearning.AI
In this course, you’ll access Mistral AI’s collection of open source and commercial models, including the Mixtral 8x7B model, and the latest Mixtral 8x22B. You’ll learn about selecting the right model for your use case,...
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Retrieval Augmented Generation
Offered by Packt
This specialization features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress throug...
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Applied Generative AI & NLP with Python
Offered by Packt
This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the co...
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Create Embeddings, Vector Search, and RAG with BigQuery
Offered by Google Cloud
This course explores a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) solution in BigQuery to mitigate AI hallucinations. It introduces a RAG workflow that encompasses creating embeddings, searching a vector space, and generating...
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Vector Databases: from Embeddings to Applications
Offered by DeepLearning.AI
Vector databases play a pivotal role across various fields, such as natural language processing, image recognition, recommender systems and semantic search, and have gained more importance with the growing adoption of LL...
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Agentic AI Foundations: Build RAG & MCP Chatbots
Offered by LearnKartS
The next wave of AI isn’t about better prompts—it’s about building systems that think, retrieve, and act on their own. Most AI applications today stop at generating responses. But real-world systems need more they must a...
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AI Automation with Claude
Offered by Advancing Women in Tech & Anthropic
This course teaches you how to leverage Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant, to enhance your productivity by automating repetitive tasks and streamlining your workflows. You’ll learn to create Claude Projects that can gener...
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Pesquisa vetorial e embeddings
Offered by Google Cloud
Conheça aplicativos, ferramentas e tecnologias de pesquisa com tecnologia de IA neste curso. Aprenda a fazer pesquisa semântica usando embeddings de vetores, pesquisa híbrida combinando abordagens semânticas e por palavr...
$49.00listed price
Best RAG Courses on Coursera compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $9.99 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $39.01. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 2 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including IBM and Duke University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
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