Flowise vs LangChain
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Flowise
Open-source AI agent builder — wound down by its team in August 2026.
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LangChain
Most popular framework for building LLM applications
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 8.1 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Fully free self-hosted | Open source framework is free; LangSmith has a free developer tier |
| Paid from | — | $39/month (LangSmith Plus) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 30000+ GitHub stars | 1m+ developers |
| Founded | 2023 | 2022 |
| Maker | Henry Heng, Chee Hau Tan | Harrison Chase |
| Verdict | Flowise reached end of life on 31 August 2026, and that is now the first thing to know about it. Its founder announced the wind-down on 29 July, the repository was archived read-only on 13 August, and npm packages and Do... |
Still the default starting point for LLM apps, and meaningfully more stable since LangChain 1.0 and LangGraph 1.0 shipped in October 2025 — agents now run on LangGraph's durable runtime, and the team has promised no brea... |
| Full review → | Full review → |
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