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Feature Catalog
Complete reference of all FlowFuse features across Cloud and Self-Hosted deployments. Not all features are shown on the public pricing page, this is the full list.
| Feature | FlowFuse Cloud | Self Hosted | Solutions | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Pro | Enterprise | Starter | Pro | Enterprise | MES | SCADA | UNS | Edge | IT/OT | Data Int. | |
| Empower | ||||||||||||
| FlowFuse Expert AI-powered assistant that supports, enables, and speeds up workflows across FlowFuse and Node-RED, with access to MCP servers defined in your Node-RED instances through a single interface. Docs Changelog | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | Contact Support to enable | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| └Application Building Describe what you want to build and FlowFuse Expert assembles it on your workspace, adding tabs, wiring nodes, and configuring properties. Docs Changelog | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | On request On request; requires assistant tokens and the Expert MQTT bridge | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| └Support Mode Chat-based assistance for FlowFuse and Node-RED, including Node-RED instance management through natural language. Docs Changelog | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| └Insights ModeBeta Connects FlowFuse Expert to MCP servers in your Node-RED instances, enabling real-time data queries and actions through a single chat interface. Docs | Available during beta | Available during beta | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Node-RED MCP Servers Build and expose MCP servers directly from Node-RED instances, making your data and actions available to FlowFuse Expert and other AI agents. Docs | Available during beta of Insights Mode | Available during beta of Insights Mode | ✓ | Available during beta of Insights Mode | Available during beta of Insights Mode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Manage | ||||||||||||
| Node-RED Hosting FlowFuse hosts and manages Node-RED instances at any scale. Docs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hosted Instances Run Node-RED instances managed and hosted by FlowFuse. Docs | ✓ Starts with 2 hosted instances, 2 remote instances. Upgrades available up to 3 hosted / 3 remote instances. | ✓ Starts with 5, shared with edge device count | ✓ Starts with 20, shared with edge device count | 5 Includes 5 hosted instances, shared with edge device count | ✓ Includes 5 hosted instances, shared with edge device count | ✓ Starts with 20, shared with edge device count | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – |
| Embedded Editor Browser Tab Title The browser tab title updates to reflect the active Node-RED canvas tab when working in the embedded editor. Changelog | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Edge Devices Connect and manage edge devices running Node-RED at the network edge. Docs Changelog | ✓ Includes 5 edge devices | ✓ Starts with 5, shared with hosted instance count | ✓ Starts with 20, shared with hosted instance count | 5 Includes 5 edge devices, shared with hosted instance count | ✓ Shared with hosted instance count | ✓ Starts with 20, shared with hosted instance count | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | – |
| Snapshots Take point-in-time backups of your Node-RED instances and devices. Restore, promote between environments, or compare two snapshots side by side to see exactly what changed. Docs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| └Auto Snapshot for Remote Instances Automatically capture a snapshot every time a remote instance is deployed, so you always have a recoverable history of what was running on each device. Docs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | – |
| └Auto Snapshot for Hosted Instances Automatically capture a snapshot every time a hosted instance is deployed, so you always have a recoverable history of what was running. Docs | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Installation Support Docs | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Dedicated Success Management Docs | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Live Chat Support | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Enterprise Support Docs | – | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Custom Hostnames Access your Node-RED application via your own domain name. Docs | – | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Persistent Files Store files persistently on the local file system of your Node-RED instance across restarts and upgrades. Docs | 1 GB | 10 GB | 100 GB | N/A | ✓ | – | – | – | – | ✓ | ||
| Persistent Context In-memory values defined in a Node-RED flow persist across project restarts and upgrades. Docs | 10 MB | 100 MB | 1 GB | N/A | ✓ | – | – | – | – | ✓ | ||
| Workflow Executions | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scale | ||||||||||||
| MQTT Broker Manage and create MQTT clients to transport data for efficient messaging and communication within your applications. Docs | – | ✓ Includes 5 clients. Additional clients can be purchased. | ✓ Includes 20 clients. Additional clients can be purchased. | – | – | ✓ Includes 20 clients. Additional clients can be purchased. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Device Fleet Updates Connect to edge devices to quickly assess and update logic. Debug one device and roll out improvements to your fleet in minutes, securely without requiring full device access for your whole organisation. Docs | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | – |
| Volume Pricing Customised volume discounts for use cases requiring hundreds or thousands of Node-RED instances. Docs | – | – | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Edge Development Connect to an edge device and develop your Node-RED flows directly on the device. Docs | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | – |
| Snapshot Details in Immersive Editor View and manage snapshot details directly inside the immersive editor without leaving your editing session. Docs Changelog | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | – |
| Customisable Immersive Editor Drawer Pin, move, resize, or full-screen the immersive editor drawer — your preferences are remembered between sessions. Changelog | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | – |
| DevOps Pipelines Set up different environments for development, testing, and production Node-RED instances to support a full software delivery lifecycle. Docs | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Snapshot Comparison Compare two snapshots side-by-side with a navigable diff view — step through every changed, added, or deleted node and see property and code diffs. Docs Changelog | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Seamless Data Stream FlowFuse Project Nodes enable the passing of data and messages between your Node-RED projects. Docs | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Private NPM Registry Docs | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – |
| Device Group Management Logically group devices assigned to an application and integrate device groups into your DevOps Pipeline for coordinated fleet updates. Docs | – | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | – |
| Git Integration Back up your flows to a remote Git repository through a DevOps Pipeline. Supports GitHub and Azure DevOps repositories. Docs | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – |
| └GitHub Push and pull snapshots to GitHub repositories through DevOps Pipeline Git Stages. Docs | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – |
| └Azure DevOps Push and pull snapshots to Azure DevOps repositories through DevOps Pipeline Git Stages. Docs Changelog | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – |
| High Availability Leverage horizontal scaling for reliable and scalable processing of your data through Node-RED. Docs | – | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – |
| Performance Monitoring Monitor CPU and memory usage at the team level and instance level. | – | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – |
| FlowFuse Tables Integrated database feature for storing, reading, writing, and querying data within FlowFuse. Docs | – | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | ✓ |
| Secure | ||||||||||||
| Audit Log Keep track of everything going on in your Node-RED instances and FlowFuse. Audit Logs provide details on what actions have taken place, when they happened, and who did them. Docs | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – |
| Role-Based Access Control Intuitive team management tooling makes it easy to control who has access to what across your FlowFuse organisation. Docs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| └Application-Level RBAC Fine-grained access control per application, allowing team members to have different permission levels across different applications without requiring separate teams. Docs | – | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Endpoint Security Secure HTTP endpoints for hosted Node-RED instances using FlowFuse credentials. Docs | None, HTTP Basic Auth | None, HTTP Basic Auth, FlowFuse Authentication | None, HTTP Basic Auth, FlowFuse Authentication | None, HTTP Basic Auth | None, HTTP Basic Auth | None, HTTP Basic Auth, FlowFuse Authentication | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – |
| Two-Factor Authentication Two-factor authentication adds an extra layer of security to your FlowFuse account. Docs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Certified Nodes Officially supported Node-RED nodes with SLA-backed security patching and reliability guarantees for mission-critical production deployments. Docs | – | – | ✓ | – | – | time Available from 2.32 | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | – |
| Instance Monitoring Enable alerts to be sent via email when your Node-RED instances encounter issues. Docs | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – |
| Single Sign-On (SSO) Configure FlowFuse to work with your own SSO provider, allowing users to access FlowFuse with a single set of login credentials. Docs | – | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – |
| BAA for HIPAA FlowFuse can sign a Business Associate Agreement to ensure proper safeguarding of protected health information handled on your behalf. Docs | – | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Collaborate | ||||||||||||
| Number of Teams Create multiple teams to organise Node-RED projects across different groups or business units. Docs | N/A | 5 | Unlimited | Unlimited | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| Team Members Invite multiple team members to collaborate on the same Node-RED flows. Docs | 2 | 20 | Unlimited | 5 | 20 | Unlimited | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – |
| Access to Blueprints FlowFuse Blueprints simplify Node-RED deployments by offering pre-built, customisable flows for specific use cases. Docs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Node-RED Dashboard Visualise your data with the powerful and intuitive Node-RED Dashboard. Docs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ |
| Personalised Multi-User Dashboards Build applications that provide unique data to each logged-in user using personalised multi-user dashboards. Docs | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | – |
| Team Library Set up standard nodes and flows that can be shared with all team members across your organisation. Docs | N/A | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | – | ||