Flowise vs n8n

Flowise is discontinued. End of life on August 31, 2026, repository archived. It is shown here for reference and is not scored.

Is Flowise still an option against n8n?

Not for a new project. On July 29, 2026 the Flowise team announced a code freeze; the notice sets the repository archive for August 10 and the end of life for August 31, 2026. GitHub shows the repository as archived on August 13. The Apache 2.0 code remains available and can be forked, but nobody upstream will patch it.

The full story, and what it means for a running instance, is in our Flowise review. The rest of this page compares what Flowise was with what n8n is, so you can judge how much of your setup carries over.

What was each tool built for?

Flowise was a builder for LLM applications: you connected models, prompts, vector stores and tools on a canvas to make a chatbot or a multi-agent system, then called it through an API or an embedded chat widget. Its two modes were Chatflow (single agents and RAG) and Agentflow (multi-agent systems).

n8n is a workflow automation tool that added agents. It connects 500+ business apps, runs on triggers and schedules, and lets you place an AI Agent node wherever a step needs judgment. If your Flowise project was "a chatbot over our documents", n8n is a wider tool than you need. If it was "an agent that must also update the CRM and send the email", n8n is the natural next step.

How do the prices compare?

n8n plans and prices, checked November 15, 2026

n8n plans9.5/10From $24/mo · checked November 15, 2026	Monthly billing	Annual billing, per month	Included	Notes
Starter (Cloud)	$24	$20	2,500 workflow executions a month	1 shared project, 5 concurrent executions, agents, MCP and AI nodes, forum support
Pro (Cloud)	$60	$50	10,000 workflow executions a month	3 shared projects, up to 50 concurrent executions, admin roles, workflow history
Business (self-hosted only)	$960	$800	40,000 workflow executions a month	SSO and LDAP, multiple environments, queue mode, Git version control
Enterprise	On request	On request	Custom executions	Contact sales; hosted by n8n or self-hosted

Flowise's homepage still displayed its old cloud plans on November 15, 2026 (Free, Starter at $35 a month, Pro at $65 a month) under the sunset banner. We would not subscribe to them. n8n Cloud is $24 a month for 2,500 executions on Starter and $60 for 10,000 on Pro, billed monthly, with a 1,000-execution trial. Self-hosting the n8n Community Edition has no license fee.

Open source: is n8n a like-for-like replacement?

Not on the license. Flowise was Apache 2.0, a standard open-source license. n8n uses its own Sustainable Use License, which it calls fair-code: you can self-host and modify it for internal business purposes, but you cannot offer it to others as a paid service. If you built a product on top of Flowise and sell it, read n8n's license before you migrate.

For a permissive license, look at Langflow (MIT) or the Activepieces Community Edition. Dify is source-available with its own conditions. We compare them in open source AI agents you can self-host.

AI features side by side

Flowise listed support for 100+ LLMs, embeddings and vector databases, human-in-the-loop review and execution traces. n8n lets you connect any model with your own key, lists human approval for tool calls on every Cloud plan, supports MCP as client and server, and lets you inspect each run step by step. Retrieval over your documents is built with nodes instead of a ready-made RAG template, which takes more assembly.

Video: “Build your first workflow”, from the n8n channel on YouTube.

How to move from Flowise to n8n

1. Export every Flowise flow as JSON and store the files somewhere safe.
2. List the model, vector store and credentials each flow uses.
3. Rebuild the simplest flow in n8n first: an AI Agent node, a chat trigger, your model and your tools.
4. Compare answers from both on the same real questions before you switch.
5. Shut the Flowise instance off from the internet once the new flow is live.

There is no importer. Expect to rebuild, not convert.

Which one should you choose?

• New project: n8n, or another maintained builder.
• A chatbot over documents, permissive license required: Langflow.
• An agent that acts in business apps: n8n.
• A running Flowise instance: keep it internal, and plan the migration.

Keep reading

• Flowise review: plans, limits and the catch.
• n8n review: plans, limits and the catch.
• n8n alternatives: 7 tools to consider, and when to stay
• n8n pricing: Cloud plans, executions and the free self-hosted edition
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