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Langflow — the visual builder for AI agents and workflows: drag-and-drop flows over LangChain components, deployed as APIs or MCP tools, MIT-licensed
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Flowise is an open-source automation project by FlowiseAI (FlowiseAI/Flowise on GitHub). It has 55,510 GitHub stars and 25,061 forks, is released under the Custom (check repo) license, and was last updated on GitHub on 13 August 2026.
The fastest route from the README is the npm package: npm install -g flowise (Node 18+), or run it without installing via npx.
Run npx flowise start and open http://localhost:3000 to reach the visual builder.
Compose a chatflow or agentflow from nodes, test it in the built-in chat, then expose it through the API or an embeddable widget.
Chatflows for retrieval and single agents, agentflows for orchestrated multi-agent work, and templates from the marketplace to start from.
Hundreds of nodes for models, vector stores, loaders, tools and memory drawn from both ecosystems.
Workspaces, role-based access control, evaluations and observability hooks are part of the platform, not add-ons.
Finished flows ship as APIs or drop-in chat widgets, so a prototype can reach real users without a rewrite.
No global install needed; serves the builder on port 3000.
npx flowise startThe README global-install route.
npm install -g flowise
flowise startFrom the README: clone, copy the example env file in the docker folder, then compose up.
git clone https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise.git
cd Flowise/docker
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -dFlowiseAI, the company behind the open-source project of the same name (FlowiseAI/Flowise on GitHub).
The open-source edition is free to self-host under the licence terms in the repository (the repo carries a custom licence file — check it before commercial use).
Honest answer: GitHub currently marks the FlowiseAI/Flowise repository as archived, and its last push was 2026-08-13. Check the repo state before adopting it for new work.
Against Langflow, its closest rival, Flowise leans further into templates, team workspaces and an agents-first canvas; Langflow is MIT-licensed and under visibly active development. Against Dify, Flowise is lighter to self-host but less of an all-in-one platform.
npx flowise start, then open http://localhost:3000 and build your first chatflow from a marketplace template.
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