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AI Tool Comparison

Dify vs Flowise

A side-by-side breakdown to help you pick the right tool for your workflow.

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Dify

Build and orchestrate LLM applications and agentic workflows with visual workflow design, RAG, and knowledge-base management — open source with 139,000+ GitHub stars.

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Flowise

Assemble chatbots and multi-agent workflows on a drag-and-drop canvas without writing backend code. Acquired by Workday in August 2025 and being integrated into their platform.

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freemium
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Bottom Line

Dify edges ahead on rating (4.7 vs 4.6), but the right pick still comes down to which workflow you're running.

Choose Dify if…

Chatbot Development

Choose Flowise if…

Chatbot Development

AttributeDifyFlowise
CategoryDeveloper ToolsDeveloper Tools
Pricingfreemiumfreemium
Pricing DetailFree Sandbox / $59/mo Professional / $159/mo TeamFree (self-host) / Free tier Cloud / $35/mo Starter
Rating4.74.6

Key Features

Dify

  • Visual workflow editor
  • RAG pipeline builder
  • Multi-model support
  • Built-in observability
  • API and webhook integration
  • Self-hostable

Flowise

  • Visual flow editor
  • 100+ built-in integrations
  • RAG pipeline support
  • Agent and tool chaining
  • Self-hostable
  • API deployment

Pros

Dify

  • Visual editor dramatically reduces development time
  • Strong open-source community and active development
  • Works with any major LLM provider

Flowise

  • No code required for complex LLM workflows
  • Huge library of pre-built nodes
  • Active open-source community

Cons

Dify

  • Complex workflows can become difficult to debug
  • Cloud pricing jumps significantly beyond free tier

Flowise

  • Complex flows can be hard to debug visually
  • Performance tuning requires understanding underlying LangChain

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