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Langflow

Visual builder for AI agents and RAG workflows that you can deploy as APIs

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Last commit19 Oct 2026
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Langflow is a drag-and-drop editor for building AI agents, chatbots and retrieval pipelines from components such as models, vector databases and tools. Each flow can be served as an API or an MCP server, and it works with local or cloud models.

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Runs withDocker, Python
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The project README documents running it with Docker.

Sources: github.com/langflow-ai/langflow, checked 19 Oct 2026. “Runs with” is from this listing. Blank means we haven't found it in official docs yet, not that it's unsupported.

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