Flowise
by FlowiseAI
Flowise is a visual, drag-and-drop builder for AI agents, chatbots and workflows built on large language models. It is for people who want to create things like document-answering bots without writing much code.
- Stars
- 55.5k
- Licence
- Unclear
- Runs on
- A small server
- Setup
- Moderate
- Language
- TypeScript
- Age
- 1305 days
What you can do with it
- Build a chatbot that answers questions from your own documents using retrieval (RAG)
- Design multi-step AI agent workflows by connecting nodes on a canvas
- Expose your flows through an API to embed in a website or app
Make money with it
Build and sell custom AI chatbots or document-search assistants to local businesses as a freelance service.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Set up a customer support chatbot trained on your own FAQs and documents to cut support time
- Automate internal tasks such as summarising emails or looking up product information with AI agents
Can you use it commercially?
No standard licence detected. Read the licence before using it commercially.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Install with npm (needs Node.js 20 or newer) and run npx flowise start, or use Docker Compose, then open localhost:3000.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- The repository has been archived, so there will be no further updates or fixes
- Licence is reported as unclear by GitHub, though the README says Apache 2.0
- Usually needs paid API keys from AI providers such as OpenAI
Who's talking about it
Checked 27 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
