Flowise
What is Flowise?
Flowise is an open-source AI workflow builder for teams that assemble agents and LLM pipelines visually, built around a drag-and-drop canvas for no-code and low-code flows including RAG, SQL chatbots and AWS Bedrock apps, and self-hostable on your own infrastructure. FlowiseAI froze development on 29 July 2026 and archived the repository on 13 August, so what exists today is a finished codebase whose core is Apache-2.0, with an enterprise directory held back under a separate commercial licence, rather than a project still being built. It stands at 55,458 GitHub stars and 24,997 forks.
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At a glance
- Flowise is best for builders who want to assemble AI agents and workflows without coding every step.
The project is archived, not just quiet
FlowiseAI announced on 29 July 2026 that it was winding down the company, citing a shift toward coding agents over rigid visual workflows for complex tasks. The GitHub repository (FlowiseAI/Flowise, 55,460 stars) was moved to public-archive status on 13 August 2026 — GitHub's API confirms "archived": true and the repo banner reads 'This repository was archived by the owner on Aug 13, 2026. It is now read-only.' Pull requests stopped merging after 13 August 2026 (last merge commit that day, per the closed-PR list), npm's flowise package sits at 3.1.4 with no release since 29 July 2026, and the Docker Hub flowiseai/flowise:latest image was last pushed 29 July 2026. The company's own SECURITY.md now reads: 'Flowise is officially being sunset and will soon cease active maintenance or support. As a result, we are no longer accepting new security vulnerability reports for this repository.' Official Discord and GitHub presence ended 31 August 2026, per the company's own EOL notice.
What it still does well
Flowise's core pitch — a drag-and-drop canvas for chaining LLMs, retrieval, tools and multi-agent orchestration without writing glue code — is fully built out and was under active, well-reviewed development right up to the freeze. The docs describe three builder modes (Assistant, Chatflow, Agentflow) covering everything from a beginner chatbot to multi-agent workflow orchestration with human-in-the-loop review steps, plus execution tracing via Prometheus/OpenTelemetry, and API/SDK/embeddable-chat access for wiring it into an app. It integrates with 100+ data sources, vector stores and memory backends per the docs. None of that stops working because the repo is archived: it's Apache-2.0 (with the enterprise/ subdirectory under a separate commercial license), so npm install -g flowise and npx flowise start still run today, and self-hosting on AWS, Azure, GCP, Railway, Render, Digital Ocean and others remains supported through the existing deploy guides.
Security patching has stopped — this matters more than usual for a self-hosted tool that executes code
Flowise has a real vulnerability history typical of a tool that lets users build agents with code-execution and MCP nodes: GitHub Security Advisories list a critical unauthenticated remote-code-execution flaw via Custom MCP (GHSA-6933-jpx5-q87q, CVE-2025-71336, fixed in 3.0.6), a critical CSV-Agent prompt-injection RCE that bypassed the code sandbox validator (GHSA-5xvg-pmgg-3mxr, CVE-2026-70477, fixed in 3.1.3, reported by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative), a high-severity SSRF protection bypass, a high-severity Cypher-injection flaw in the Neo4j integration, and others — all patched in releases up to 3.1.3/3.1.4. That patching stream is now closed: the vendor is explicit that new vulnerability reports are no longer accepted. Anyone self-hosting Flowise going forward is running whatever 3.1.4 has, with any future finding unpatched unless a fork picks it up.
Pricing and hosted option
flowiseai.com/pricing redirects unauthenticated visitors to a login page (HTTP 307 to /auth/login), so current tier pricing is not publicly readable without an account; we could not verify current hosted-cloud prices from the vendor page today. The hosted Flowise Cloud product (cloud.flowiseai.com) was still reachable and serving a login page as of 11 September 2026, so it has not been shut down alongside the open-source repo, but given the company wind-down announced in July 2026, its continuity is not established — no end-of-life date for Flowise Cloud specifically appears on the sunset page, which discusses only the GitHub repository's timeline.
Frequently asked questions
What is Flowise?
Flowise is an open-source AI workflow builder for product teams, developers, and enterprise teams that assemble agents and LLM pipelines visually. It centers on a drag-and-drop canvas for no-code and low-code workflows, including RAG, SQL chatbots, and AWS Bedrock apps. Flowise is self-hostable and is used by AWS, Priceline, Accenture, Deloitte, and Publicis.
What is Flowise used for? Who is it for?
Flowise is used for Visually. It's built for Product teams, Developers, and Enterprise teams.
Editor's read
Still a fit if you want a self-hosted visual builder and can take on the code: the Apache-2.0 core runs as it always did, but there are no further releases, no upstream fixes and no official support, so the upkeep is yours. If you need a vendor on the other end of it, this is not that.
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