Pricing last verified: May 2026. Plans and pricing may change — check the vendor site for current details.
Pricing Overview
Flowise follows a dual pricing model: fully free and open-source for self-hosted deployments, plus a managed FlowiseAI Cloud service with tiered plans. The self-hosted option lets teams run Flowise on their own infrastructure at zero cost — you only pay for the servers and any third-party LLM API keys you connect. FlowiseAI Cloud removes the infrastructure burden with hosted plans starting at $0/month for hobbyists and scaling to $65/month for production teams. Enterprise pricing is available by contacting FlowiseAI directly.
This split makes Flowise one of the most cost-flexible visual LLM builders on the market: technical teams can avoid SaaS fees entirely, while teams that prefer managed hosting get a straightforward tier structure.
Plan Comparison
| Plan | Monthly Price | Flows & Assistants | Predictions/Month | Storage | Users | Support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-Hosted | $0 (open source) | Unlimited | Unlimited | Your infra | Unlimited | Community |
| Cloud Free | $0 | 2 | 100 | 5MB | 1 | Community |
| Cloud Starter | $35 | Unlimited | 10,000 | 1GB | 1 | Community |
| Cloud Pro | $65 | Unlimited | 50,000 | 10GB | 5+ ($15/user/mo) | Priority |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom | Custom | Dedicated |
The Cloud Free tier is practical for evaluating the platform or running a personal chatbot prototype, but the 100-prediction cap and 5MB storage make it unsuitable for anything beyond light experimentation. The jump to Starter at $35/month unlocks unlimited flows and 10,000 predictions — enough for a solo developer shipping a client project or internal tool.
The Pro plan at $65/month is where team use begins. It includes up to 5 users in the base price, with each additional seat at $15/month. At that rate, a 10-person team pays $65 plus $75 in extra seats, totaling $140/month — still competitive for a managed AI orchestration platform.
Hidden Costs and Considerations
Self-hosted Flowise is free to run, but you absorb server costs. A modest cloud VM (2 vCPU, 4GB RAM) runs $20-$40/month on AWS or DigitalOcean, plus database hosting if you move beyond the default SQLite. You also need to manage updates, backups, and SSL certificates yourself.
On FlowiseAI Cloud, the main hidden cost is LLM API keys. Flowise connects to external models (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.), and those API charges are separate from your Flowise subscription. A moderate-traffic chatbot using GPT-4 can easily add $50-$200/month in API fees on top of the Flowise plan.
There is no published annual discount for Cloud plans — pricing is month-to-month as of this writing.
Cost Estimates by Team Size
Solo developer: Self-hosted on a $25/month VPS with your own API keys. Total Flowise cost: $0. Or Cloud Starter at $35/month if you prefer managed hosting.
Small team (5 users): Cloud Pro at $65/month covers 5 users with 50,000 predictions. Add LLM API costs of roughly $100-$300/month depending on model usage. Total: $165-$365/month.
Mid-size team (20 users): Cloud Pro at $65/month base plus 15 additional users at $15/month each ($225), totaling $290/month for the Flowise platform alone. At this scale, self-hosting at $0 on your own Kubernetes cluster becomes significantly more economical if you have the DevOps capacity.
How Flowise Pricing Compares
Among visual AI agent builders, Flowise stands out for offering a genuinely free self-hosted option. CrewAI's cloud platform starts free but caps at 50 executions/month before charging $0.50 per additional execution — costs that scale unpredictably with usage. LangChain (LangSmith) charges $39/seat on its paid tier, making it more expensive per-user than Flowise Cloud Pro for teams under 10.
The closest comparison is Dify, another open-source LLM app builder. Dify also offers free self-hosting, but its cloud pricing is structured differently. Flowise's $35/month Starter plan with 10,000 predictions provides a clearer cost ceiling for teams that want managed hosting without surprise bills.
For teams already comfortable with Docker or Kubernetes, self-hosted Flowise at $0 is hard to beat — the trade-off is operational overhead rather than subscription cost.