Flowise AI: Build AI Agents and LLM Workflows Visually

Flowise is an open-source generative AI development platform for building AI agents and LLM workflows. You connect blocks on a canvas, add your model and data, and publish. This Flowise guide sticks to what the project's docs say.

What is Flowise?

Flowise describes itself as an open-source platform for building AI agents and LLM workflows. It bundles a visual builder with tracing and analytics, evaluations, human in the loop, an API, CLI, SDK, an embedded chatbot, and teams and workspaces.

Flowise Assistant, Chatflow and Agentflow

What you can build with Flowise

According to the docs capability list:

Flowise security and deployment options

The docs list self-hosted deployment, including air-gapped, and security controls such as RBAC, SSO, encrypted credentials, secret managers, rate limits and restricted domains. Check the docs for which of these apply to the edition you use.

How to install Flowise with npm or Docker

Flowise needs Node 20 or newer. Run npm install -g flowise then npx flowise start and open localhost:3000. A Docker Compose option is also provided.

Is Flowise a good fit for your workflow?

Start with one narrow workflow, like answering questions from your own FAQ. Test it on real examples before you connect it to anything customer facing.

Want help picking or setting up a workflow? Send the task and the tools you already use through the contact page.

Sources: Flowise docs, Flowise on GitHub.