NodeTool vs Flora

The creative canvas, open source and yours.

Flora is a beautifully designed hosted canvas for AI image and video, sold on credits. NodeTool is the open version of that idea: image, video, music, and text on one node-based canvas, every model called with your own keys at provider prices, and workflows and files you own and can self-host.

Flora

Hosted infinite canvas

  • Polished, purpose-built creative canvas UX
  • Curated image and video model selection
  • Closed source, hosted only
  • Billed in credits you top up

NodeTool

Open source · BYOK

  • Image, video, audio, and text on one canvas
  • Every major model from every major provider
  • Open source under AGPL-3.0, self-hostable
  • BYOK at provider prices — no credits, no markup
FeatureFloraNodeTool
Design / onboarding polishPurpose-built creative UXNode-based, power-user first
ModalitiesImage, videoImage, video, audio, text
Model rosterCurated rosterEvery major provider
Pricing modelCreditsBYOK / provider prices
SourceClosedAGPL-3.0
Self-host / data ownership
Desktop app + local models

A canvas you can take with you

Flora is genuinely pleasant to use — the onboarding and the canvas feel designed, and for a quick hosted image or video it's fast to reach for. But it's closed and credit-metered: the model roster is curated, each render burns credits, and your work lives on their platform. NodeTool trades some of that turnkey polish for control — image, video, music, and text on one canvas, every provider at list price with your own keys, local models via Ollama, MLX, and llama.cpp, and the whole thing open source under AGPL-3.0 so you can self-host it and keep your files.

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