Flowise vs OpenAI Swarm vs Rasa vs Workato
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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Workato
Enterprise iPaaS + Agent Studio — connect apps, orchestrate AI agents,...
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 4.9 / 10 | 7.3 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source | Enterprise |
| Free tier | Fully free self-hosted | — | Full open source framework for self-hosting | 30-day free trial available via marketing page; no permanent free tier |
| Paid from | — | — | Enterprise custom pricing | Custom, sales-led quotes; enterprise contracts typically tens of thousands to $150,000+/year |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | 30000+ GitHub stars | — | 50000+ developers | 12,000+ customers; about half the Fortune 500 use Workato |
| Founded | 2023 | 2024 | 2016 | 2013 |
| Maker | Henry Heng, Chee Hau Tan | — | Alan Nichol, Alex Weidauer | Workato Inc. (independent, private) |
| 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... |
Workato is one of the most capable enterprise automation platforms available in 2026, earning its position as Gartner's Furthest in Vision iPaaS leader for the third year running. Its unified approach — combining traditi... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.