The chatbot, plus everything it needs to produce.
Flowise is the fastest drag-and-drop path to a LangChain RAG chatbot. NodeTool covers the same agent and retrieval ground, then adds native image, video, and music generation and editing tools on the same canvas — open source under AGPL-3.0, BYOK at provider prices, with a desktop app and local models.
Flowise
Drag-and-drop LangChain builder
- Fastest path to a RAG chatbot
- Vector store and LangChain node library
- Source-available under Apache 2.0
- Hosted cloud sold on usage-based credits
NodeTool
The AI-native canvas
- Agents, RAG, and native image/video/music generation
- Built-in editing tools — masks, inpaint, relight, layers
- Open source under AGPL-3.0, desktop app included
- BYOK at provider prices — no credits, no markup
| Feature | Flowise | NodeTool |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | LangChain chatbots & RAG | AI generation + agents |
| Native media generation (image, video, music) | Via HTTP request nodes | Built-in nodes |
| Editing tools (masks, inpaint, relight, layers) | ||
| Vector store / RAG nodes | ||
| License | Apache 2.0 (source-available) | AGPL-3.0 (open source) |
| Local models | LLMs via Ollama | Ollama, MLX, llama.cpp |
| Pricing model | Usage-based credits (cloud) | BYOK / provider prices |
| Desktop app |
A chatbot is often just the front door.
Flowise is genuinely fast at what it's built for: wire a vector store, a retriever, and an LLM node into a working RAG chatbot in minutes. But the moment the workflow needs to produce something — a rendered image, a video cut, a voice line — that step lands in a generic HTTP node calling an external API by hand. In NodeTool, image, video, and music models from every major provider sit on the same canvas as the agent and retrieval nodes, with masks, inpaint, relight, upscale, and layers built in — every call on your own keys at list price, no credit tiers on top.
Build the chatbot. Ship the media too.
Download Studio and put generation on the same canvas as your agents and retrieval.