IBM RAG and Agentic AI Professional Certificate
The most complete paid certificate for developers: RAG and vector search first, then agents with LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, AG2, BeeAI, and MCP, ending in a capstone. Long, and its time estimate is optimistic.
Go to the course on Coursera- Provider
- IBM on Coursera
- Price
- Free to start, paid extras
- Certificate
- Paid certificateIBM Professional Certificate after all 10 courses; needs paid enrollment or Coursera Plus.
- Level
- Advanced
- Time
- Coursera lists 8 weeks at 3 hours/week; the course estimates add up to roughly 100 hours
- Format
- 10-course online series with labs and a capstone project
- Checked
- 2026-11-05
Individual courses can be audited free. The certificate needs paid enrollment or Coursera Plus; financial aid available. Check current pricing.
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What you will learn.
- 01RAG and vector databases
- 02LangChain
- 03LangGraph
- 04CrewAI
- 05AG2 (AutoGen)
- 06BeeAI
- 07MCP
- 08Capstone
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Before you enroll.
From the course page, checked 2026-11-05.
- Who it is for
- Software developers, ML engineers, data scientists, and others with Python experience.
- You need
- Working knowledge of Python
- Basic web development and AI concepts
- What you build
- LangChain apps with prompt templates and function calling
- Similarity search with the Chroma vector database
- A data visualization agent
- A RAG and agentic AI capstone project
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