Flowise
Flowise was an open-source tool for building AI agents and LLM workflows visually: you connected nodes for models, prompts, retrievers, tools and memory on a canvas, then exposed the result as a chatbot or API. Important: Flowise has been discontinued. The team froze development on July 29, 2026, archived the GitHub repository on August 13, 2026, and ended official support on August 31, 2026. npm packages and Docker images are marked deprecated, and issues and pull requests are locked.
In their announcement the maintainers explained that developers increasingly rely on coding agents for complex tasks, and that rigid low-code workflows hit their limits as complexity grows. The code remains visible, so existing users can fork it and keep running self-hosted instances, but they should not expect fixes, security patches or new integrations.
What to do now: if you run Flowise in production, plan a migration. For visual automation with AI steps, n8n and Activepieces are actively developed self-hostable options; for agent applications written in code, frameworks such as CrewAI or Microsoft Agent Framework fit the direction the Flowise team described. Keep existing instances off the public internet until you have migrated.
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- Last commit
- 2026-08-13
- Commits, last 90 days
- 13
- Releases, last 90 days
- 1
- Latest release
- [email protected] (2026-07-29)
- Open issues
- 1041
- Recent issues with at least one comment
- 6/17
Oldest week on the left; the latest four weeks are orange. Source: GitHub commit activity.
Status rule: archived on GitHub = Archived; last commit within 90 days = Active; 91 to 365 days = Slowing; older = Stale. All figures come from the GitHub API on the date shown.
Most discussed open issues
- #2557 [BUG] Agents not invoked?58 comments · 2024-06-02
- #2837 [FEATURE] GraphRAG + Flowise31 comments · 2024-07-20
- #2911 Set Base-Path to access Flowise UI28 comments · 2024-07-30
- #3583 [BUG] White Screen Issue on Marketplaces and Chat Pages in Flowise UI (Node.js v18.20.5, v20.18.1, and v23.3.0)26 comments · 2024-11-27
- #5097 [BUG] Document Store GUI - Document Loader -> Options -> Preview & Process BLANK PAGE24 comments · 2025-08-18
Issue titles are quoted from GitHub. Open the link to check whether a problem still applies to the version you use.
Who it fits
- You want an intuitive visual drag-and-drop canvas for building LangChain/LlamaIndex agents, multi-agent workflows, and RAG pipelines without code.
- You need an embeddable chat widget, API endpoints, and a low-code UI for rapid AI application prototyping.
- You need a long-term actively maintained project; the Flowise repository was archived in August 2026 and reached end-of-life.
- You require code-first, type-safe Python orchestration with deterministic checkpointing; Pydantic AI or Temporal are better choices.
How it differs
vs Activepieces★ 25.2kFlowise is a visual low-code builder focused specifically on LLM chains and agent nodes (archived). Activepieces is an actively maintained open-source workflow automation platform with 200+ enterprise connectors and AI actions.
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