Capability · Framework — orchestration

BISHENG

BISHENG (named after the Chinese inventor of movable type) is an enterprise-leaning LLM-app platform: visual flow builder, agent authoring, OCR/ETL for documents, and a strong focus on finance and government use cases. It's an often-cited open-source alternative to Dify in the Chinese ecosystem.

Framework facts

Category: orchestration
Language: Python / TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
Repository: https://github.com/dataelement/bisheng

Install

git clone https://github.com/dataelement/bisheng.git
cd bisheng/docker
docker compose up -d

Quickstart

# Open http://localhost:3001 after docker compose up
# Create a 'Skill' flow from the visual builder,
# then call via OpenAPI-compatible endpoint:
curl -X POST http://localhost:7001/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <api-key>' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"model":"<flow-id>","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}]}'

Alternatives

Dify — broader international mindshare
Flowise / Langflow — lighter visual builders
Coze — ByteDance's hosted sibling
FastGPT — another Chinese open platform

Frequently asked questions

Is BISHENG Chinese-only?

No, UI and prompts support English, but a lot of the docs, issues, and community content are in Chinese. For a more polyglot community, Dify is usually easier.

What's BISHENG best at?

Document-heavy enterprise flows — OCR, table extraction, and financial report parsing are treated as first-class features instead of add-ons.

Sources

BISHENG — docs — accessed 2026-04-20
BISHENG GitHub — accessed 2026-04-20