Flowise
Drag-and-drop UI for building LLM flows and AI agents.
About
Flowise turns LLM application development into a drag-and-drop exercise: chatbots, RAG pipelines, and multi-step agents are assembled visually on a canvas from nodes wrapping LangChain and LlamaIndex components, then exposed as REST API endpoints or embedded chat widgets. The platform is a Node.js monorepo pairing an Express-based API server with a React frontend, plus auto-generated Swagger documentation and a library of integration nodes covering major model providers, vector stores, and tools. Requiring Node.js 20 or later, it self-hosts through Docker or on AWS, Azure, GCP, and PaaS providers like Railway and Render, and a managed Flowise Cloud is also offered. The core is released under the Apache 2.0 license. Its users range from developers who want to prototype agent workflows quickly to non-technical builders and enterprises that prefer LLM orchestration with a visual audit trail rather than custom code.
Should you use Flowise?
Pick it when
Choose Flowise when you want chatbots, RAG pipelines, or simple agents assembled visually from LangChain and LlamaIndex nodes and published as a REST endpoint or embedded chat widget, by builders who prefer not to write code.
Look elsewhere when
Complex branching logic gets hard to review and version as canvas graphs, and nodes only expose what their wrappers allow. When flows outgrow the canvas, move to LangGraph or LangChain in code; for built-in monitoring and RAG management, Dify.
Alternatives to Flowise
- Langflow
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- Dify
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- n8n
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- Rivet
Desktop node editor built for debugging, whose graphs embed in TypeScript apps; no embeddable chat widget for end users.
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Details
- Category
- AI Agents & Orchestration
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- Local/Desktop
- Difficulty
- Beginner (1/5)
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Added
- Apr 3, 2026