Dify
Verified Oct 16, 2026 ActiveOpen-source canvas for building LLM workflows, agents and RAG pipelines, hosted or self-run
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Pricing
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- Paid options from
- $59/mo
- Billing
- Monthly
Cloud Sandbox is free with 200 message credits, 5 apps and 50 MB of knowledge storage. Professional is $59 per workspace per month or $590 a year (5,000 credits a month, 50 apps, 3 members, 5 GB); Team $159 per month or $1,590 a year (10,000 credits, 200 apps, 50 members, 20 GB); annual billing saves 17%. The self-hosted Community Edition is free; Enterprise is custom.
Use tool ↗About Dify
Dify is an open-source platform where teams design LLM applications on a visual canvas: workflow nodes for retrieval, branching, tool calls and human input, agents built by chat or by hand, and a knowledge pipeline that extracts, chunks and indexes documents, websites and drives. Finished apps publish as hosted chat experiences, API endpoints, embeds or MCP tools, with logs and usage monitoring attached. A marketplace supplies model providers, tools and MCP integrations as plugins. The Community Edition runs from a single Docker command; Dify Cloud is the managed version, and an Enterprise edition adds SSO, RBAC and private deployment.
- API
- Yes
- Last verified
- Oct 16, 2026
Verified sources
- Cloud plans: Sandbox free (200 message credits, 5 apps, 1 member, 50 MB), Professional $59/month or $590 per workspace per year (5,000 credits a month, 50 apps, 3 members, 5 GB), Team $159/month or $1,590 a year (10,000 credits, 200 apps, 50 members, 20 GB); annual saves 17%; Community self-hosted free; Enterprise custom (15 October 2026)dify.ai ↗
- Terms updated 30 June 2026 name LangGenius, Inc., a Delaware corporation doing business as Dify, with a notice address at 548 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94104 (15 October 2026)dify.ai ↗
- Home page: visual workflow and agent builder, Knowledge Pipeline for RAG, plugin marketplace with MCP integrations, publishing as API, embed or MCP tool, Community Edition via Docker, Enterprise with SSO/SAML, RBAC, audit logs and Helm chart; 158K+ GitHub stars; customers listed include Maersk, Adobe, PayPal and Volkswagen (15 October 2026)dify.ai ↗
- GitHub repository langgenius/dify created 12 April 2023, 158,543 stars, licence listed as non-standard (15 October 2026)github.com ↗
Is Dify legit?
We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.
- Domain registered
- May 3, 2023 (3 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar NameCheap, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
- TLS certificate
- Issued by Google Trust Services, valid until Dec 23, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 16, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 16, 2026The site answered
- On the market since
- 2023The vendor's own material, read by us
- Operated by
- LangGenius, Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Oct 15, 2026
Pros & cons of Dify
Dify is the pragmatic choice when a team wants a visual builder for agents and retrieval that it can self-host today and hand to non-engineers tomorrow; the Community Edition is real software, not a demo, and the 158K GitHub stars reflect that. Pay for Cloud only if you do not want to run Docker — the $59 Professional tier is one workspace with three seats and metered message credits, so a developer team will outgrow it or self-host. It is less suited to teams that want code-first pipelines or a single-vendor model stack.
Pros
- Open-source Community Edition with single-command Docker deployment and an active repository
- One canvas covers workflows, agents and a knowledge pipeline with retrieval testing
- Apps publish as API endpoints, embeds or MCP tools with logs and feedback built in
- Plugin marketplace for model providers, tools, data sources and MCP integrations
- Self-hosted and cloud editions share the same product, so you can move between them
Cons
- Cloud tiers meter message credits, members and storage per workspace, and annual billing is the headline
- The open-source licence carries commercial conditions (multi-tenant and logo clauses) rather than plain Apache
- Visual workflows get hard to review and version once they grow past a few dozen nodes
- Enterprise features such as SSO, RBAC and audit logs are reserved for the paid Enterprise edition
Best for
- Teams that want to self-host an agent and RAG builder without writing the orchestration layer
- Product groups where non-engineers configure prompts and knowledge while engineers wire tools and APIs
- Enterprises that need private deployment with SSO and audit logs for internal LLM apps
Not for
- Code-first teams who would rather compose pipelines in LangGraph or plain Python
- Solo builders who need more than 200 credits without paying — the free cloud tier is a sandbox
Watch out: The repository is open source with extra conditions, not plain Apache: running Dify as a multi-tenant service or removing the branding needs a commercial licence — check the licence file before building a product on it.
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