Rating certificate · AW/26-09/85626 Sept 2026
Not enough evidence
The Register / Agent-building platforms / Flowise
Register entry · Agent-building platforms · updated 26 Sept 2026
Flowise
Flowise was an open-source (Apache-2.0) visual builder for LLM apps, RAG chatbots and multi-agent flows, available self-hosted or as Flowise Cloud. Workday acquired it in August 2025. In July 2026 the team announced it was winding down Flowise, citing a shift toward coding agents; the repository was archived on 2026-08-13 and official support ended on 2026-08-31.
Discontinued. Workday acquired Flowise on 2025-08-14. On 2026-07-29 the team announced a wind-down: code freeze 2026-07-29, GitHub repository archived 2026-08-13, end of life 2026-08-31. The Apache-2.0 code stays on GitHub for forks. The flowiseai.com site shows 'We're sunsetting Flowise.' while cloud sign-up pages were still reachable on 2026-09-26.
What reviewers and users praise
- Not enough evidence yet.
What they criticise
- Discontinued: no further maintenance or security fixes from the core team after 2026-08-31
- Large number of critical security advisories in the last 24 months
Experts vs the crowdneeds both scores
Experts—
Crowd—
| Price | Free, paid from $35 |
|---|---|
| Use it via | Web app, API |
| Runs on | web, linux, macos, windows |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Updated | Evidence collected 26 Sept 2026 |
How the rating was worked out
Weights for Agent-building platforms: adoption 35%, experts 35%, crowd 30%. Fewer than two pillars have enough evidence. The method.
| Adoption & momentumweight 35% | 45 | GitHub stars 55k → 83 · npm weekly downloads 2.5k → 11 · 1 releases in 90 days → 40reach × 0.7 + momentum × 0.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Expertsindependent reviews · weight 35% | — | No independent reviews found |
| Crowdcommunity sample · weight 30% | — | Only 3 community items sampled (6 needed) |
| Rating | — | Not rated: fewer than two pillars have enough evidence. |
Editorial adjustment. Dead: Workday froze the code 2026-07-29, archived the repo 2026-08-13 and ended support 2026-08-31 (batch F). Status already recorded in evidence. Incident-history grade reviewed under methodology revision 2 (see the trust section).
Trust & safety
Seven dimensions graded A–D from documented facts. Overall: not enough data.
n/e
Permission model
Not assessed: product discontinued.
n/e
Data access scope
Not assessed: product discontinued.
A
Data storage
Self-hostable open-source code. source
n/e
Data retention & training
Not assessed: product discontinued.
D
Incident history (24 months)
130 GitHub security advisories published 2024-09-26 to 2026-09-26, 41 rated critical, including RCE and sandbox escapes; further critical advisories were published on 2026-09-10, after end of life, with no maintained release line. Kept at D under revision 2: critical advisories were published after end of life with no maintained release line to fix them (unresolved). source
n/e
Compliance
Not assessed: product discontinued.
A
Transparency
Apache-2.0 source and release history remain public (archived). source
The experts
0 named independent reviews found; dated reviews from the last 12 months are scored.
- None found.
The crowd
3 coded posts from hackernews.
1 positive1 mixed1 negative
- negative
I remember Flowise app being well-intended but bad.
Flowise is shutting down · 5 Aug 2026 · news.ycombinator.com - positive
Flowise was cool. I used to to help build an enterprise employee search tool with it a few years back.
Flowise is shutting down · 5 Aug 2026 · news.ycombinator.com - mixed
It lacked so many features that n8n and Langflow offered, so I'm not sad about it, but it was the first visual agentic workflow builder that I tried
Flowise is shutting down · 5 Aug 2026 · news.ycombinator.com
Pricing
As published, checked 26 Sept 2026.
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Self-hosted (open source) | Free | Archived code, no longer maintained. |
| Cloud Starter | $35 / monthly | Still listed on flowiseai.com under a sunset banner. |
| Cloud Pro | $65 / monthly | Still listed on flowiseai.com under a sunset banner. |
Recent changes
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Sources
Every figure above traces to one of these, observed up to 26 Sept 2026.