Flowise

Flowise

Open Source

Low-code orchestration and agent workflow builder; the repository was archived on August 13, 2026 and project end of life was August 31, 2026.

Curated by Tiberiu ArvaStale

Apache 2.0Version 3.1.4Released 2026-07-2955,456

Strengths

  • Low-code orchestration builder
  • Chatflow + agent workflow support
  • Wide model/provider connectivity

Practitioner note

Active development has ended. The repository was archived (read-only) on August 13, 2026 and official support ended August 31, 2026; the Apache-2.0 source remains available for internal or community forks, but plan a migration for production workloads.

Warning

Flowise: Repository archived by the owner on August 13, 2026; project end of life August 31, 2026 with no named successor.

Where it sits in the stack

Listed under Workflows & orchestration in the Build & orchestrate layer.

  1. Build & orchestrate
  2. Control plane
  3. Use

Governance posture

Reviewed 2026-05-26
PartialData residency

Self-hosted deployment leaves data location under customer control; no current hosted-service residency commitment is asserted.

Source
YesDeployment model

The Apache-2.0 source remains available for self-hosted forks; the official repository is scheduled for archival on August 10, 2026 and project EOL on August 31, 2026. (self-hosted)

Source
UnknownAudit logging

No dedicated audit-log documentation; enterprise tier may add capabilities.

UnknownSOC 2

No SOC 2 certification announced by Flowise directly.

UnknownISO 27001

No ISO 27001 certification found in Flowise documentation.

UnknownISO 42001

Not mentioned in Flowise documentation.

N/AEU AI Act

Low-code agent/workflow builder tooling, not an AI model/provider. (role: not-applicable)

YesLicense risk

Apache-2.0 core + proprietary Commercial License for packages/server/src/enterprise (SSO/RBAC/audit). (medium)

Source

License history

Verified license transitions for Flowise, newest first. Relicensing is tracked as a first-class procurement risk — see the license-change feed for all tracked tools.

  1. More restrictive

    MIT to Apache 2.0

    Both licenses are permissive and OSI-approved — a minor technical tightening (NOTICE preservation, explicit patent grant), not a source-available shift.

    FlowiseAI/Flowise LICENSE.md commit history

EU AI Act obligations

Risk tier: Not applicable · as of 2026-10-10

Source-backed information mapped from Flowise's tracked risk tier — not legal advice. Obligations depend on how your organisation deploys the system; see the full obligation reference and timeline.

This record's EU AI Act risk tier is marked not applicable, so no tier-specific obligations attach. Deployers embedding it in an AI system in scope of the Act should assess that system's own tier.

Change history

Source-backed and auto-detected events for this tool, newest first.

  1. DeprecationHigh impact

    Flowise archived its GitHub repository (read-only) ahead of the project end of life on August 31, 2026; the Apache-2.0 source remains available for forks.

    Future of Flowise · FlowiseAI/Flowise discussion #6727
  2. DeprecationHigh impact

    Flowise announced an immediate feature-development freeze, repository archival on August 10, and project end of life on August 31; its Apache-2.0 source will remain available for forks.

    The Future of Flowise
  3. ReleaseHigh impact

    Flowise 3.1.3 added chatflow-as-MCP-server and custom MCP server support, expanded Agentflow client filtering and knowledge fields, added initial observe package scaffolding, and fixed clickjacking plus frame-header handling.

    Release flowise@3.1.3 · FlowiseAI/Flowise
  4. ReleaseHigh impact
    Flowise release tightens security around CORS and MCP config

    Flowise's April 14 release focused on security hardening, including a fix for a hardcoded CORS wildcard on the TTS endpoint and additional MCP server configuration protections.

    Releases · FlowiseAI/Flowise
  5. Auto-detectedHigh impact
    status: maintenance → archived

    From snapshot diff 2026-09-13 → 2026-10-10.

  6. Auto-detected
    githubStars: 55137 → 55456

    From snapshot diff 2026-08-22 → 2026-09-13.

  7. Auto-detected
    githubStars: 54516 → 55137

    From snapshot diff 2026-07-17 → 2026-08-04.

  8. Auto-detected
    governance.deployment: [object Object] → [object Object]

    From snapshot diff 2026-07-17 → 2026-08-04.

  9. Auto-detected
    lastRelease: 2026-06-25 → 2026-07-29

    From snapshot diff 2026-07-17 → 2026-08-04.

  10. Auto-detectedHigh impact
    status: active → maintenance

    From snapshot diff 2026-07-17 → 2026-08-04.

  11. Auto-detected
    version: 3.1.3 → 3.1.4

    From snapshot diff 2026-07-17 → 2026-08-04.

  12. Auto-detected
    githubStars: 53392 → 54516

    From snapshot diff 2026-06-07 → 2026-07-17.

  13. Auto-detected
    lastRelease: — → 2026-06-25

    From snapshot diff 2026-06-07 → 2026-07-17.

  14. Auto-detected
    version: 3.1.2 → 3.1.3

    From snapshot diff 2026-06-07 → 2026-07-17.

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