Flowise Alternative: Where to Go Now That Flowise Is Archived

The best Flowise alternative depends on why you used Flowise. If you built a chatbot for your website or support, Dante AI gives you a hosted AI agent trained on your own content with no flow to wire. If you need a self-hosted, open-source visual builder, Langflow is the closest match. If you must keep your exact flows, fork Flowise.

Disclosure: Dante AI publishes this guide and is one of the options. Every attribute below was checked against the public source listed under Sources on 6 November 2026.

What happened to Flowise?

Flowise was a popular open-source tool for building AI agents visually. Its GitHub README now opens with "Flowise has been archived" and points to a maintainers' post called "The Future of Flowise". An archived GitHub repository is read-only: no new releases, fixes or pull requests from the core team.

The code does not disappear. It is published under the Apache 2.0 licence, so you can fork it and keep running it. The README still links Flowise Cloud; if you use it, ask Flowise directly about its future before you plan around it.

Do you need a Flowise alternative?

Your self-hosted Flowise will not stop working overnight. The risk is slower: no new features, no fixes from the core team, and every model, library and security update now falls on you. Ask three questions:

• What did the flow actually do? If it answered questions from your documents on your website, you mainly need a reliable AI agent, not a flow editor.
• Who will maintain it? If nobody on your team wants to patch an archived Node.js app, a hosted product removes that job.
• Do you need open source or self-hosting? If yes, stay with open source: Langflow or your own fork.

How do the Flowise alternatives compare?

We left out tools whose pricing or licence pages we could not read on the check date, rather than quote them from memory.

Langflow vs Flowise: is Langflow the natural replacement?

For developers who liked the canvas, yes. Langflow also gives you a visual builder, is MIT licensed, and lets you edit any component in Python. You can deploy a flow as an API or as an MCP server. The trade-off is the same one you had with Flowise: you run it, secure it and upgrade it. Your Flowise flows will not import as they are, so plan to rebuild each one.

If your Flowise project was really a website chatbot, rebuilding it node by node in another canvas is extra work you may not need. See our guide to the best AI chatbot trained on your own documents for the hosted route.

How do you move a Flowise chatbot to Dante AI?

Worked example: a support chatbot in Flowise that answers from a help centre website and a few PDF manuals, with a system prompt and a chat embed on the site. Here is the same agent in Dante AI.

1. Collect what the flow used. List every URL your loaders read, gather the files you uploaded, and copy the text of your system prompt. These are the only parts that carry over; the nodes, splitters and vector store settings do not need moving.
2. Add your knowledge. In Dante AI open the agent's Knowledge page and add the help centre URL, then upload the PDFs. You can also paste text or add hand-written Q&A pairs for answers that live nowhere else. Dante AI handles the chunking and retrieval for you.
3. Paste your instructions. Put your old system prompt into the Behavior field on the Sandbox page. Keep the persona and rules, and drop anything that was only there to steer a specific node.
4. Pick a model and test. Paid plans include the latest models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, and you can switch models in the Sandbox to compare answers. Ask the ten questions your Flowise bot got most, then one it should not be able to answer.
5. Replace the embed. On the Publish page, open the Install tab, add your domain to Allowed domains, copy the snippet and paste it where the Flowise embed was. Remove the old embed so visitors see one chat.
6. Reconnect the rest. If your flow posted leads or messages to other tools, use the Zapier integration; on Pro you can call the Dante API from your own code. If people need to reach a person, Human Handover starts on Advanced.

Before launch, run through our AI support agent launch checklist, or tick off the migration check below.

Which Flowise alternative fits you?

• Dante AI if the job is a chatbot for your website or support and you want to stop maintaining infrastructure. Start on the free plan and move to a paid plan when you need more credits. See the pricing page.
• Langflow if you want to stay open source and self-hosted with a visual canvas, and you have someone to run it.
• A Flowise fork if your flows are complex, work today, and you have engineers ready to own the code.
• Botpress if you want a hosted chatbot platform with an SDK for developers.

Still comparing hosted builders? Our AI agent platform guide and Chatbase alternatives cover the wider field. Or test your own content first: Get started free at dante-ai.com.

Sources

• Flowise, GitHub README ("Flowise has been archived", Apache 2.0 licence, self-host and Flowise Cloud sections), checked 6 November 2026.
• Langflow, GitHub README and LICENSE (MIT, visual builder, Python components, API and MCP deploy, Langflow Desktop), checked 6 November 2026.
• Botpress, GitHub README (Botpress Cloud, SDK and CLI), checked 6 November 2026.
• Dante AI Help Center: Plans and pricing, Knowledge sources, Agent behaviour, Embedding your agent, Integrations and API access, read 6 November 2026.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best Flowise alternative?

If you want a hosted, no-code AI agent for your website, look at Dante AI. If you want to keep a self-hosted, open-source visual builder, look at Langflow. If you want to keep your Flowise flows exactly as they are, fork the Flowise code and maintain it yourself.

Has Flowise been shut down?

The Flowise GitHub README now says Flowise has been archived and points to a maintainers' post called 'The Future of Flowise'. The code stays on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 licence, but an archived repository gets no new development.

Can I keep using Flowise after it was archived?

Yes, a self-hosted copy keeps running and the code is Apache 2.0, so you can fork it. You will not get new features or fixes from the core team, so you own every security update and dependency upgrade from here on.

Is there a no-code alternative to Flowise?

Yes. Dante AI builds an AI agent from your website, files, text or Q&A pairs, and you add it to your site with one embed snippet. There is no flow to wire and no server to run. It has a free plan with 1 AI agent and 100 credits a month.

Langflow vs Flowise: which should I pick now?

Both are visual builders for AI flows. Langflow is MIT licensed, is still developed on GitHub, and lets you customise components in Python. Flowise is archived, so pick Langflow if you want to stay self-hosted and open source.

How do I move a Flowise chatbot to Dante AI?

Collect the documents and URLs your flow used, copy your system prompt, then in Dante AI add those sources on the Knowledge page, paste the prompt into the Behavior field, test in the Sandbox, and replace your old embed with the Dante AI snippet.