Dify vs Giselle

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

Giselle

Giselle suits small product teams that want to wire models into repeatable tasks like PR review, research and spec drafting, and that value being able to read or self-host the source. The hosted free tier is only a trial, and the team plan is not yet available.

Pros

• +Open source under Apache-2.0, with a hosted option
• +Ready-made templates for research, code review, specs and docs
• +Vector stores for documents, GitHub repositories and Postgres data
• +Pro includes monthly AI credits and access to premium models

Cons

• −Free plan is just 30 minutes of model usage
• −Team plan with sharing and up to 10 users is listed as coming soon
• −Pay-as-you-go beyond credits carries a 10% markup on base model rates

Is Dify cheaper than Giselle?

On published entry prices, Giselle starts lower — $20/mo against $59/mo for Dify. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Does Dify or Giselle have a free tier?

Both: Dify has a free tier, and Giselle has a free tier.

Which has a public API, Dify or Giselle?

Dify ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for Giselle is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.