Flowise vs OpenAI Swarm vs Rasa vs Rox
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Flowise
Open-source no-code LLM app builder
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OpenAI Swarm
OpenAI's experimental multi-agent framework
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Rasa
Open-source framework for building production-grade conversational AI...
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Rox
The agentic CRM that deploys AI agent swarms to automate the full ente...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 4.9 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Fully free self-hosted | — | Full open source framework for self-hosting | Starter: free — 10 agents, 2,500 actions/mo, 10 accounts |
| Paid from | — | — | Enterprise custom pricing | Core plan from $50/mo (100 agents, 5,000 actions); Enterprise: contact sales |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | 30000+ GitHub stars | — | 50000+ developers | 35+ enterprise customers confirmed in beta (2024–2025) |
| Founded | 2023 | 2024 | 2016 | 2024 |
| Maker | Henry Heng, Chee Hau Tan | — | Alan Nichol, Alex Weidauer | Ishan Mukherjee (CEO), Avanika Narayan (AI Lead), Diogo Ribeiro (Product), Chris Ré, Shriram Sridharan |
| Verdict | Flowise is a popular open-source, low-code platform for building LLM apps and agents visually — chaining models, vector stores, tools and memory on a drag-and-drop canvas, with LangChain/LlamaIndex under the hood. Its st... |
Swarm was OpenAI's deliberately minimal, educational multi-agent framework demonstrating clean handoff and routine abstractions in under a thousand lines. Its ideas were influential and the codebase is still a good teach... |
Rasa is the established open-source framework for building custom conversational assistants, giving developers full control over dialogue logic, NLU and deployment, with its newer CALM approach blending LLMs for more nat... |
Rox is one of the most technically ambitious agentic CRM entrants in the market, deploying a dedicated AI agent swarm per account rather than adding a chatbot layer onto legacy CRM. The warehouse-native architecture, ful... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.