--- title: "Against automation builders · AssistantGeneral" description: "For whoever runs the automations." url: "https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/compare/automation-builders/" source: "https://royalsoftworks.com" format: "markdown" note: "Markdown rendering of the HTML page at `url`. Same content, same canonical URL." --- Competitive comparison · 5 of 9 # Against automation builders. For whoever runs the automations. | Product | Own hardware | Your files | Workflows | Connectors | Messaging | MCP | Voice | Admin (theirs) | Admin (yours) | No internet | Desktop | Pricing | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AssistantGeneral★ This product · checked against our code, 12 October 2026 Private beta, Windows only. The admin console runs on one of your own machines; company sign-in (SSO, SCIM) only in pilots. Works with no internet once set up — activating a licence needs a connection once. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Partial | Yes | Private beta — no published price yet | | Workflow & agent builders | | | | | | | | | | | | | | n8n Hundreds of integrations; local models through Ollama. Built for whoever runs the automations, not as an assistant. | Partial | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Free self-hosted / Cloud from €20/mo / self-hosted Business €667/mo | | Dify Its logs keep full conversations. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Free self-hosted / Cloud from $59/mo per workspace / Enterprise | | Langflow (IBM) A developer tool for building flows; the desktop app ships with no model. | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Free (MIT) | Yes~Partly, or only in some editions No?Not checked — unknown, not no - **Own hardware:** — The AI model can run on hardware you own — your PC or your own server. - **Your files:** — Searches your own documents and answers from them. - **Workflows:** — Multi-step automations; a visual builder counts as full. - **Connectors:** — Ten or more built-in data connectors. - **Messaging:** — Works as a bot in Slack, Teams, WhatsApp or Telegram. - **MCP:** — Model Context Protocol: plugs into outside tools. - **Voice:** — Speech in and out (partial: cloud-only or one direction). - **Admin (theirs):** — Admin console run by the vendor, in its own cloud: sign-in, roles, audit. - **Admin (yours):** — Admin console and policy you host on your own machines. - **No internet:** — Works with no internet connection at all. - **Desktop:** — Native desktop application. Rows checked on 30 September 2026 against each vendor’s own pages (sources at the end of this page); our own row against our own code on 12 October 2026. Off the table since the last version: Flowise reached end of life on 31 August 2026. Backyard AI's desktop app is discontinued. Enchanted was superseded by another app from the same developer. Prices and features change quickly — check before you buy, and tell us if a cell is wrong. Contents 1. 01Automation builders: for whoever runs the automations 01 ## Automation builders: for whoever runs the automations n8n, Dify and Langflow build automations and AI apps, and n8n in particular has hundreds of integrations and runs local models through Ollama. They are made for a technical person to assemble pipelines that other people use without ever opening the canvas. Flowise, once on this list, reached end of life on 31 August 2026. AssistantGeneral’s workflow builder is deliberately smaller: the person who uses the assistant every day can describe a job in plain words and get a working workflow back, or draw one themselves. [Previous Against EU workspaces and company platforms.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/compare/company-platforms/) [Next Who holds what.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/compare/who-holds-what/) [All of AssistantGeneral compare](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/assistant-general/compare/)