Windmill vs Flowise vs CrewAI vs Appian

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
Windmill
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Competitor 1
Flowise
Competitor 2
CrewAI
Competitor 3
Appian
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Windmill
windmill.dev
Windmill is an open-source, code-first orchestration platform for internal software.
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Competitor Flowise
flowiseai.com
No-code AI workflows
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Competitor CrewAI
crewai.com
CrewAI is a multi-agent platform that covers the full agent lifecycle for businesses: discover what to automate, build agents, govern them in production and optimize them over time.
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Competitor Appian
appian.com
Appian is an enterprise platform for process automation that orchestrates AI agents, existing systems and people from one place.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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168.3Kvisits/mo
476.6Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▼ 27.6%
▼ 10.3%
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6-month growth
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-14.1%
-5.3%
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Global rank web
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#239,649
#107,487
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Avg. last 3 months
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203.8K
564.3K
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Bounce rate lower is better
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43%
46%
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Pages / visit
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2.8
2.6
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Visit duration
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1m 23s
1m 32s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 79% · ● Referral 19%
● Direct 75% · ● Referral 23%
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WindmillFlowiseCrewAIAppian
0171.3K342.6K513.9K685.2KFlowise · 254.4KFlowise · 249KFlowise · 240.1KFlowise · 195.9KFlowise · 226.4KFlowise · 223.8KFlowise · 210.5KFlowise · 232.5KFlowise · 168.3KCrewAI · 408.9KCrewAI · 417.1KCrewAI · 521.4KCrewAI · 503.5KCrewAI · 610.1KCrewAI · 646.1KCrewAI · 685.2KCrewAI · 531.1KCrewAI · 476.6K100K1MFlowise · 254.4KFlowise · 249KFlowise · 240.1KFlowise · 195.9KFlowise · 226.4KFlowise · 223.8KFlowise · 210.5KFlowise · 232.5KFlowise · 168.3KCrewAI · 408.9KCrewAI · 417.1KCrewAI · 521.4KCrewAI · 503.5KCrewAI · 610.1KCrewAI · 646.1KCrewAI · 685.2KCrewAI · 531.1KCrewAI · 476.6KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Free
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Starting price
$120per month · free tier available
$35per month · free tier available
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Plans
Free and Open-source (self-host) FreeEnterprise $120/mo
Free FreeStarter $35/moPro $65/mo
Basic FreeEnterprise $0
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Capabilities input → output
Input
Code
DocumentsText
Text
DataDocumentsText
Output
Apps
Apps
AppsCode
Apps
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI Developer ToolsAI Workflow+1 more
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI Agent+3 more
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Developer Tools+2 more
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Workflow+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 4 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Workflows
Agents
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Business automation
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Chatbots
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Agent testing
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Chatbot integration
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Document data extraction
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Finance workflow automation
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.