Comparison

Flowise vs Dify

Flowise and Dify both land on Depends.

Flowise

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if you're a developer prototyping AI agents on a self-hosted, sandboxed instance . it's free and fast to iterate.

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if you have technical staff to run and patch infrastructure and you need production agents or RAG with self-host/VPC control.

Flowise versus Dify
Compare	Flowise	Dify
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Developers prototyping LLM apps fast	Technical teams building production agents and RAG
Who it's not for	Anyone exposing it to the public internet	Non-technical teams wanting plug-and-play automation
Privacy	Poor . multiple critical RCE CVEs (including CVSS 10.0) with confirmed active exploitation; official security page appears empty.^⁶	Checkered: multiple public CVEs, one actively exploited, and cross-tenant research flaws; a Trust Center exists but self-hosters carry the patching burden.¹⁴
Support quality	No support evidence in sources.	No usable support evidence in sources
Public sentiment	Product Hunt reviewers rate it 4.8/5 and developer reviewers describe strong delivery, though the public review base is small.^⁴	Users praise the value and drag-and-drop build experience, but the independent review base is small and reliability concerns surface in evaluations.^⁵
Biggest gotcha	CVSS 10.0 RCE under active exploitation; unpatched instances get compromised^⁷	Self-hosters must patch fast: repeated CVEs, including active exploitation¹⁵