Flowise
Open-source visual builder for AI agents — drag-and-drop multi-agent workflows.
Acquired Flowise
Acquired · July 2026
Acquired by Workday in August 2025, then sunset a year later: code freeze on 29 July 2026, GitHub repository archived on 10 August 2026, end of life on 31 August 2026. The team cited coding agents absorbing the low-code use case. The Apache 2.0 source remains forkable — the maintained product does not.
Acquired by Workday.
Is Flowise shut down?
Effectively, yes. Flowise was acquired by Workday and the standalone product was sunset on July 29, 2026. Its record is preserved in the ToolDirectory.AI graveyard, our hand-reviewed registry of AI tools that shut down or were acquired.
What to use instead
Overview
Flowise: Build AI Agents Visually
Flowise is the open-source visual builder for AI agents and LLM orchestration. Drag-and-drop nodes for prompts, tools, models, and memory; chain them into agents and multi-agent crews. Where LangChain and friends require code, Flowise gives non-engineers and rapid-prototyping engineers a canvas they can ship from.
Flowise has joined Workday, but the OSS project remains active and broadly adopted — 12,400+ GitHub stars and counting. Use it for everything from a single chatbot with retrieval to multi-agent workflows that orchestrate Claude, GPT, Gemini, and other models on your own infrastructure.
Acquisition note (July 2026): Flowise was acquired by Workday in August 2025 and sunset a year later — code freeze 29 July 2026, GitHub repository archived 10 August 2026, end of life 31 August 2026. The Apache 2.0 source stays available to fork, but the hosted product and official maintenance have ended.
Key Features:
- Visual drag-and-drop agent builder
- Multi-agent workflows on a canvas
- Open source on GitHub (12,400+ stars)
- Self-hostable or cloud
- Support for Claude, GPT, Gemini, and more
- Memory, retrieval, and tool nodes built in
- API endpoint per flow for embedding
- Now part of Workday
- Active community and rapid releases
Ideal Use Case:
Flowise is ideal for engineers and PMs who need to prototype LLM-powered features quickly and for organizations that want a visual layer on top of LangChain-style orchestration. Strong fit for self-hosted deployments where data residency matters.
Why Use Flowise:
- Visual canvas vs. code-only frameworks
- Open source — fully self-hostable
- Multi-agent workflows out of the box
- Now backed by Workday
- Massive OSS community
FAQ
Is Flowise free? Yes — fully open source. Cloud hosting is a paid add-on. Can I self-host? Yes — Docker, Kubernetes, and major cloud platforms. Did Workday acquire Flowise? Yes — Flowise has joined Workday, OSS project remains. What's the difference vs LangChain? Flowise gives you a visual builder on top of LangChain-style orchestration.
tl;dr:
Flowise is the open-source visual builder for AI agents — drag-and-drop multi-agent workflows on Claude, GPT, Gemini, and more. 12,400+ GitHub stars, now part of Workday.
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