What is Dify?
Build and manage LLM apps and agent workflows.
Who is Dify best for?
Dify is best for developers who want to build agents and document chatbots on a visual canvas and self-host them.
Visual agent workflows
Workflow Studio lays out prompts, tools, retrieval and human review steps as visible blocks, so a team can test and debug the logic together.
Chatbots on company documents
The Knowledge Pipeline extracts, cleans, chunks and indexes files, websites and drives before an agent or workflow uses them.
Teams that must self-host
The open-source Community edition deploys with a single Docker command, and Enterprise covers VPC and Kubernetes setups with SSO and audit logs.
Shipping one app in several forms
The same app can go out as a hosted web app, an API endpoint, an embed or an MCP tool, with logs and usage data to review.
How much does Dify cost?
Dify is free to start on the Sandbox cloud plan or as the self-hosted Community edition, and its paid cloud plans cost $59 a month for Professional or $159 a month for Team, per workspace.
- 200 message credits to try hosted models
- 1 member, 5 apps, 50 knowledge documents
- 30 days of log history
- Open-source edition you run yourself with Docker
- All core features from the public repository
- Single workspace, aimed at individual and non-commercial projects
- 5,000 message credits a month
- 3 members, 50 apps, 500 knowledge documents, 5GB storage
- 20,000 trigger events a month, no Dify API rate limit
- 10,000 message credits a month
- 50 members, 200 apps, 1,000 knowledge documents, 20GB storage
- Unlimited trigger events, priority workflow execution
Billed yearly, Professional is $590 and Team $1,590 per workspace a year, about 17% less. Enterprise, for self-hosted or VPC deployments with SSO, several workspaces and a commercial license, is priced through sales. Message credits pay for models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI and Tongyi; when they run out you can switch to your own API key. Prices exclude tax. Full pricing on dify.ai. We checked these prices on .
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What are the best Dify alternatives?
One tool on Recaply does Dify's job. It is open source, so you can run it on your own server.
Questions about Dify
What is Dify?
Build and manage LLM apps and agent workflows.
Who is Dify for?
Dify is best for developers who want to build agents and document chatbots on a visual canvas and self-host them.
Is Dify free?
Yes, Dify is free in two ways. The Sandbox plan on Dify Cloud includes 200 message credits, 1 member and 5 apps with no end date, and the Community edition is free to self-host under Dify's open source license, with a single workspace.
How much does Dify cost?
Dify's paid plans are Professional at $59 per workspace per month and Team at $159 per workspace per month.
Is there an open source alternative to Dify?
Yes. Langflow is an open source tool that does the same job, so you can run your own.
What are the best Dify alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Langflow.
Where can I try Dify?
On its official website, dify.ai.
Can I use my own model API keys in Dify?
Yes. Dify's message credits let you try models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI and Tongyi, and once they are used up you can switch to your own API key. Model providers are added as plugins from the Dify Marketplace.
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