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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.

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.

  1. 1
    Coursera Certificate University-backed

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  2. 2
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Lowest price here University-backed

    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...

    $9.99
    listed price
  3. 3
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  4. 4
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  5. 5
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  6. 6
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  7. 7
    Coursera Certificate

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  8. 8
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit

    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,...

    $49.00
    listed price
  9. 9
    Coursera Certificate

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  10. 10
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  11. 11
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  12. 12
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit

    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...

    $9.99
    listed price
  13. 13
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  14. 14
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price
  15. 15
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit

    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...

    $49.00
    listed price

Best RAG Courses on Coursera compared

# Course Provider Offered by Price
1 RAG and Agentic AI Capstone Project Coursera IBM $49.00 View →
2 Introduction to Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Coursera Duke University $9.99 View →
3 Vector Databases for RAG: An Introduction Coursera IBM $49.00 View →
4 Mastering DeepSeek.ai: From Fundamentals to Advanced Skills Coursera Board Infinity $49.00 View →
5 RAG Systems & Agentic Workflows with Pinecone and LangGraph Coursera Board Infinity $49.00 View →
6 Multimodal RAG with GPT – Build Smarter Search & AI Systems Coursera Packt $49.00 View →
7 Agentic AI Engineering: RAG, MCP & MERN Coursera LearnKartS $49.00 View →
8 Getting Started with Mistral Coursera DeepLearning.AI $49.00 View →
9 Retrieval Augmented Generation Coursera Packt $49.00 View →
10 Applied Generative AI & NLP with Python Coursera Packt $49.00 View →
11 Create Embeddings, Vector Search, and RAG with BigQuery Coursera Google Cloud $49.00 View →
12 Vector Databases: from Embeddings to Applications Coursera DeepLearning.AI $9.99 View →
13 Agentic AI Foundations: Build RAG & MCP Chatbots Coursera LearnKartS $49.00 View →
14 AI Automation with Claude Coursera Advancing Women in Tech & Anthropic $49.00 View →
15 Pesquisa vetorial e embeddings Coursera Google Cloud $49.00 View →

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