Decision comparison
Dify vs Flowise
Compare Dify’s managed platform with the responsibility of operating Flowise after its [announced sunset](https://flowiseai.com/sunset). Flowise’s homepage still displays Starter $35/month and Pro $65/month, but hosted availability and support are unverified. Its Apache 2.0 source remains available; evaluate a maintained fork rather than treating the displayed prices as a current service commitment. Compare current Dify plan terms separately against your deployment and governance requirements.
Flowise is no longer available as an active product
FlowiseAI is winding down Flowise. Active feature development ceased and pull requests stopped being accepted on 29 July 2026; the GitHub repository was archived on 13 August 2026; and the core team's presence in Discord and GitHub concluded on 31 August 2026, the end-of-life date. npm packages and Docker images are marked deprecated. The source stays on GitHub under Apache 2.0, so a team already running Flowise can fork it and maintain its own build, which the vendor recommends. No first-party source states a shutdown date for the paid Flowise Cloud, so none is recorded here. Retain this listing as historical context.
Direct comparison. These are reviewed substitutes bought for the same job, so the differences below are the ones that decide between them.
All 2 are visual agent builders.
Quick Comparison
| Decision factor | Dify | Flowise |
|---|---|---|
| Best For | Production LLMOps with model management, observability, and team governance; supports collaborative agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and AI applications from prototype through production. | Rapid prototyping with drag-and-drop LangChain/LlamaIndex visual builder; suitable for modular agentic systems ranging from simple compositional workflows to autonomous multi-agent applications. |
| Pricing | Dify Cloud: Sandbox is free (200 message credits, 1 workspace, 1 member, 5 apps, 50MB knowledge storage). Professional is $59 per workspace per month or $590 per workspace per year (5,000 message credits/month, 3 members, 50 apps, 5GB knowledge storage). Team is $159 per workspace per month or $1590 per workspace per year (10,000 message credits/month, 50 members, 200 apps, 20GB knowledge storage). Prices exclude taxes. Enterprise is custom; contact sales. Community Edition is free to self-host under the Dify Open Source License. Verified 2026-10-05 against https://dify.ai/pricing. | Flowise Cloud plans on the homepage: Free $0/month (2 flows and assistants, 100 predictions/month, 5MB storage). Starter $35/month (unlimited flows and assistants, 10,000 predictions/month, 1GB storage, first month free). Pro $65/month (50,000 predictions/month, 10GB storage, 5 users + $15/user/month). Enterprise: no price, contact the team. The source code is Apache 2.0 licensed. The site says Flowise is being sunset: the GitHub repository was archived on August 10, 2026, with end of life on August 31, 2026. Verified 2026-10-05 against https://flowiseai.com/ and https://flowiseai.com/sunset. |
| Visual Workflow Builder | Canvas editor with branching, loops, and conditionals for building agentic workflows and RAG pipelines in a collaborative workspace. | Drag-and-drop node editor built on LangChain components, with Chatflow for single-agent assistants and Agentflow for coordinated multi-agent workflow orchestration. |
| LLM Provider Support | 100+ providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama; Professional credits support trying OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, and Tongyi models before using your own API key. | LangChain-supported models: OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Replicate; chat assistants also support tool calling and knowledge retrieval (RAG) from various data sources. |
| Deployment Options | Deploy applications on Dify Cloud, private VPC infrastructure, or self-hosted Community Edition, supporting teams that require private control alongside managed deployment. | Flowise supports APIs, SDKs and embedded chat. Its announced sunset means hosted availability and support are unverified; evaluate a maintained fork for self-hosted deployment. |
| Pricing Model | Dify Cloud: Sandbox is free (200 message credits, 1 workspace, 1 member, 5 apps, 50MB knowledge storage). Professional is $59 per workspace per month or $590 per workspace per year (5,000 message credits/month, 3 members, 50 apps, 5GB knowledge storage). Team is $159 per workspace per month or $1590 per workspace per year (10,000 message credits/month, 50 members, 200 apps, 20GB knowledge storage). Prices exclude taxes. Enterprise is custom; contact sales. Community Edition is free to self-host under the Dify Open Source License. Verified 2026-10-05 against https://dify.ai/pricing. | Flowise Cloud plans on the homepage: Free $0/month (2 flows and assistants, 100 predictions/month, 5MB storage). Starter $35/month (unlimited flows and assistants, 10,000 predictions/month, 1GB storage, first month free). Pro $65/month (50,000 predictions/month, 10GB storage, 5 users + $15/user/month). Enterprise: no price, contact the team. The source code is Apache 2.0 licensed. The site says Flowise is being sunset: the GitHub repository was archived on August 10, 2026, with end of life on August 31, 2026. Verified 2026-10-05 against https://flowiseai.com/ and https://flowiseai.com/sunset. |
Dify
- Best For:
- Production LLMOps with model management, observability, and team governance; supports collaborative agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and AI applications from prototype through production.
- Pricing:
- Dify Cloud: Sandbox is free (200 message credits, 1 workspace, 1 member, 5 apps, 50MB knowledge storage). Professional is $59 per workspace per month or $590 per workspace per year (5,000 message credits/month, 3 members, 50 apps, 5GB knowledge storage). Team is $159 per workspace per month or $1590 per workspace per year (10,000 message credits/month, 50 members, 200 apps, 20GB knowledge storage). Prices exclude taxes. Enterprise is custom; contact sales. Community Edition is free to self-host under the Dify Open Source License. Verified 2026-10-05 against https://dify.ai/pricing.
- Visual Workflow Builder:
- Canvas editor with branching, loops, and conditionals for building agentic workflows and RAG pipelines in a collaborative workspace.
- LLM Provider Support:
- 100+ providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama; Professional credits support trying OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, and Tongyi models before using your own API key.
- Deployment Options:
- Deploy applications on Dify Cloud, private VPC infrastructure, or self-hosted Community Edition, supporting teams that require private control alongside managed deployment.
- Pricing Model:
- Dify Cloud: Sandbox is free (200 message credits, 1 workspace, 1 member, 5 apps, 50MB knowledge storage). Professional is $59 per workspace per month or $590 per workspace per year (5,000 message credits/month, 3 members, 50 apps, 5GB knowledge storage). Team is $159 per workspace per month or $1590 per workspace per year (10,000 message credits/month, 50 members, 200 apps, 20GB knowledge storage). Prices exclude taxes. Enterprise is custom; contact sales. Community Edition is free to self-host under the Dify Open Source License. Verified 2026-10-05 against https://dify.ai/pricing.
Flowise
- Best For:
- Rapid prototyping with drag-and-drop LangChain/LlamaIndex visual builder; suitable for modular agentic systems ranging from simple compositional workflows to autonomous multi-agent applications.
- Pricing:
- Flowise Cloud plans on the homepage: Free $0/month (2 flows and assistants, 100 predictions/month, 5MB storage). Starter $35/month (unlimited flows and assistants, 10,000 predictions/month, 1GB storage, first month free). Pro $65/month (50,000 predictions/month, 10GB storage, 5 users + $15/user/month). Enterprise: no price, contact the team. The source code is Apache 2.0 licensed. The site says Flowise is being sunset: the GitHub repository was archived on August 10, 2026, with end of life on August 31, 2026. Verified 2026-10-05 against https://flowiseai.com/ and https://flowiseai.com/sunset.
- Visual Workflow Builder:
- Drag-and-drop node editor built on LangChain components, with Chatflow for single-agent assistants and Agentflow for coordinated multi-agent workflow orchestration.
- LLM Provider Support:
- LangChain-supported models: OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Replicate; chat assistants also support tool calling and knowledge retrieval (RAG) from various data sources.
- Deployment Options:
- Flowise supports APIs, SDKs and embedded chat. Its announced sunset means hosted availability and support are unverified; evaluate a maintained fork for self-hosted deployment.
- Pricing Model:
- Flowise Cloud plans on the homepage: Free $0/month (2 flows and assistants, 100 predictions/month, 5MB storage). Starter $35/month (unlimited flows and assistants, 10,000 predictions/month, 1GB storage, first month free). Pro $65/month (50,000 predictions/month, 10GB storage, 5 users + $15/user/month). Enterprise: no price, contact the team. The source code is Apache 2.0 licensed. The site says Flowise is being sunset: the GitHub repository was archived on August 10, 2026, with end of life on August 31, 2026. Verified 2026-10-05 against https://flowiseai.com/ and https://flowiseai.com/sunset.
Public signals
Verified factual signals only. Bars appear only for like-for-like metrics with five weekly assessments for every tool; missing evidence stays explicit. These signals do not establish enterprise adoption, product quality, or total cost.
| Metric | Dify | Flowise |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub commits, 90d(Product adoption) | 2.4k | Not available |
| GitHub stars(Product adoption) | 159,000+ | Not available |
| Search interest(Market interest) | 1 | 0 |
| Hacker News mentions, 90d(Community interest) | 0 | 2 |
| Hugging Face downloads(Developer adoption) | 0 | Not available |
| Hugging Face likes(Developer adoption) | 1 | Not available |
| Product Hunt comments(Community interest) | 35 | 32 |
| Product Hunt rating(Community interest) | 4.7/5 | 4.8/5 |
| Product Hunt reviews(Community interest) | 7 | 4 |
| Product Hunt votes(Community interest) | 251 | 258 |
| PyPI weekly downloads(Developer adoption) | 484 | Not available |
| Stack Overflow questions(Community interest) | 2 | 18 |
| Docker Hub pulls(Product adoption) | Not available | 6.9M |
| Hugging Face downloads(Product adoption) | Not available | 0 |
| Hugging Face likes(Product adoption) | Not available | 130 |
| npm weekly downloads(Developer adoption) | Not available | 1.8k |
As of October 26, 2026 — updated weekly.
Health & risk evidence
Observed public-source checks for mapped package versions and repositories.
Dify
October 26, 2026Package vulnerabilities
PyPI · dify-client@0.1.10
1 vulnerability
across 1 package
Repository security score
Not available
Flowise
October 26, 2026Package vulnerabilities
npm · flowise@3.1.4
0 vulnerabilities
across 1 package
Repository security score
Not available
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Dify
Flowise
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Dify | Flowise |
|---|---|---|
| Core Capabilities | ||
| Visual Workflow Builder | Canvas editor with branching, loops, and conditionals | Drag-and-drop node editor built on LangChain components |
| LLM Provider Support | 100+ providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama | LangChain-supported models: OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Replicate |
| RAG Pipeline | Built-in knowledge base with configurable chunking and hybrid search | Composable nodes: document loader + splitter + vector store + retrieval chain |
| Multi-Agent Orchestration | Native agentic workflows with tool calling and parallel execution | Agentflow for multi-agent coordination with distributed workflows |
| Custom Code Execution | Python sandbox within workflows | JavaScript function nodes within flows |
| Operations & Governance | ||
| Model Management | Centralized configuration with cost tracking and usage analytics | No centralized management; configured per-node |
| Observability | Built-in logging for token usage, latency, and error tracking | Basic execution logs; requires external tools like LangSmith |
| Annotation & Feedback | Built-in annotation queue for human review and quality scoring | No native annotation; requires external integration |
| Team Collaboration | Multi-workspace RBAC: 3 to 50 members depending on plan | Homepage displays Pro $65/month including 5 users, plus $15/user/month; Cloud availability unverified after sunset |
| Deployment & Integration | ||
| API Deployment | Auto-generated REST API per app with API key auth | Auto-generated REST API per chatflow with API key and OAuth |
| Self-Hosted Deployment | Docker Compose or Kubernetes; requires PostgreSQL, Redis, vector DB | npm install or Docker; minimal dependencies beyond Node.js |
| License | Apache 2.0 | Apache 2.0 |
| Marketplace / Templates | Official app marketplace with community templates | Community-shared chatflows via JSON import/export |
Core Capabilities
Visual Workflow Builder
LLM Provider Support
RAG Pipeline
Multi-Agent Orchestration
Custom Code Execution
Operations & Governance
Model Management
Observability
Annotation & Feedback
Team Collaboration
Deployment & Integration
API Deployment
Self-Hosted Deployment
License
Marketplace / Templates
Which to choose
Compare Dify’s managed platform with the responsibility of operating Flowise after its [announced sunset](https://flowiseai.com/sunset). Flowise’s homepage still displays Starter $35/month and Pro $65/month, but hosted availability and support are unverified. Its Apache 2.0 source remains available; evaluate a maintained fork rather than treating the displayed prices as a current service commitment. Compare current Dify plan terms separately against your deployment and governance requirements.
Best-fit scenarios
Choose Dify if:
Choose Dify for teams of 5+ members managing multiple AI applications in production, where centralized model management, observability dashboards, and RBAC workspace governance justify the $59–$159 per-workspace monthly Cloud cost. Team provides 50 members, 200 apps, 20GB knowledge storage, and 10,000 monthly message credits.
Choose Flowise if:
Evaluate Flowise for visual prototyping only with a maintained fork and a team prepared to operate it. The announced sunset changes the buying decision; Cloud service and support are unverified. Hosting and model charges remain separate.
Choose Dify if:
Choose Dify when you need built-in annotation, human-in-the-loop feedback loops, and structured quality improvement workflows for production RAG applications. Its platform is designed to develop, deploy, and manage autonomous agents and RAG pipelines across cloud, VPC, or self-hosted environments.
Choose Flowise if:
Test a maintained Flowise fork against your required components, Agentflow orchestration and observability integrations. Do not assume upstream integrations or official support will continue after the announced sunset.
These scenarios reflect the available product evidence. Your requirements, existing stack, and team expertise should guide the final decision.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can Dify and Flowise both run entirely self-hosted without cloud dependencies?
Both products document self-hosted paths, but external model services can still receive requests and charge separately. Flowise’s source is Apache 2.0 licensed. After its announced sunset, plan a maintained fork, dependency updates and operations; self-hosting does not provide ongoing vendor support.
How do Dify and Flowise compare for building RAG applications?
Dify provides a managed knowledge base with built-in document ingestion and hybrid search. Flowise uses composable LangChain nodes for document loading, splitting, vector storage, and retrieval — more flexible but requiring more configuration.
What happens if I outgrow cloud plans — is migration to self-hosted straightforward?
Test export and import with your actual flows, credentials, integrations and target version. Flowise’s announced sunset means Cloud access and service continuity must be confirmed before planning migration. Do not assume a direct import preserves behavior or that a parallel Cloud run will remain available.
Which platform has better community support and ecosystem momentum?
Flowise’s sunset notice schedules the end of official core-team presence in Discord and GitHub for August 31, 2026. Verify any maintained fork and community support before relying on them. Assess Dify’s current release and support channels separately; historic community activity is not a support commitment.