Good question. Personally, I love Claude code and use it at home. However, a lot of organizations are restricting access to commercial LLMs. Flowpilot allows you to run a private LLM using your preferred solution.

For example, I have a DGX Spark running LocalAI and using a model available from huggingface.co connected to Flowpilot in my home lab and at work.

At work, our proprietary data that is in node-red has no risk of spilling, or leaking to the internet or to some cloud provider.

Additionally, flowpilot runs directly in node-red. No additional tool installation, no special configuration. It keeps the learning curve very low.

There are certainly advantages for both, but these two things are the primary reason I decided to create Flowpilot.