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What it is

Dify is an open-source platform for building AI applications with agentic workflows, retrieval pipelines, model management, observability, and tools. Workflow Studio provides a visual canvas for model calls, knowledge retrieval, tools, code, branching, triggers, and human review. Workflows can start from user input, API calls, schedules, webhooks, plugin events, or uploaded payloads. Knowledge Pipeline turns files, online documents, drives, crawlers, and web content into searchable knowledge bases with metadata and citations. Retrieval supports semantic, keyword, hybrid, and reranked methods with metadata filters. Applications can be published as hosted web apps, website embeds, API endpoints, or MCP servers. Dify connects to providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and xAI, while its Marketplace lists more than 200 tools. Community Edition is self-hostable with Docker; Enterprise can run in a customer VPC, on-premises, or an air-gapped network. Sandbox and Community are free. Professional costs $590 a year per workspace; Team costs $1,590 a year per workspace.

Spec sheet

What it does
Dify is an LLM application platform combining visual workflows, RAG pipelines, agents, model and tool support, publishing, and monitoring.Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Purpose
Dify is an open-source platform for building AI applications with agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, model management, observability, and tools.Read 1 Oct 2026 · github.com
Integrations
The Marketplace provides model providers, tools, data sources, MCP integrations, and reusable plugins, with support for custom definitions.Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Compliance
Dify reports completing SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 audits and maintaining GDPR compliance for the second consecutive year.Read 1 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Support
Sandbox support is community and help documentation, while Professional and Team include priority email support.Read 1 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
License
Dify uses a modified Apache 2.0 license with restrictions on unauthorized multi-tenant operation and removing frontend branding or copyright notices.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com
Headquarters
California, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · dify.ai
Founded
G2 lists Dify as serving customers since 2023 and gives a 2023 founding year.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Adoption claim
The March 2026 funding announcement said Dify ran on more than 1.4 million machines and had more than 280 enterprise customers.Read 15 Oct 2026 · venturebeat.com
Agents
Agents can be configured conversationally or manually, published as apps, embedded in websites, or reused as workflow nodes.Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
API authentication
API calls use Bearer keys, with app keys scoped to one app and knowledge keys optionally scoped to selected knowledge bases.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.dify.ai
API hosting
Dify Cloud uses https://api.dify.ai/v1 while self-hosted deployments use the instance’s own API base URL.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.dify.ai
API surface
Every published app and knowledge base has a REST API; the documentation covers chat, completion, workflow, conversation, file, audio, feedback, annotation, end-user, and knowledge endpoints.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.dify.ai
Chrome extension rating
The Chrome Web Store listing for Dify Chatbot shows 3.6 out of 5 from 13 ratings and about 8,000 users.Read 15 Oct 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com
Company headquarters and size
LinkedIn lists Dify headquarters in Menlo Park, California, with a company size of 51–200 employees.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com
Company legal name
Dify’s terms identify the provider as LangGenius, Inc., a Delaware corporation.Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Docker architecture
The quick start launches seven core services, eight dependent components, and a one-time permissions task.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.dify.ai
Enterprise controls
Enterprise includes SAML/OIDC SSO, workflow-level RBAC, SCIM provisioning, tamper-evident audit logs, per-call traces, and PII-redacted prompt history.Read 1 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Enterprise deployment
Dify Enterprise can run inside a customer VPC, on-premises, or in an air-gapped network, with Helm deployment for Kubernetes.Read 1 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Enterprise security
The official product page lists SSO/SAML, RBAC, audit logs, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and dedicated support for Enterprise.Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Funding news
On March 9, 2026, Dify announced a $30 million Series Pre-A round led by HSG at a $180 million valuation.Read 15 Oct 2026 · venturebeat.com
Independent limitation: operational burden
ToolVerse says self-hosting shifts responsibility for databases, vector stores, secrets, backups, upgrades, capacity, and incident response to the customer.Read 15 Oct 2026 · insights.v3rsai.com
Independent limitation: retrieval assurance
ToolVerse says Dify’s visual RAG workflow does not itself prove answer correctness, permission safety, freshness, or recoverability, so buyers need representative evaluations.Read 15 Oct 2026 · insights.v3rsai.com
Knowledge Pipeline
Knowledge Pipeline ingests files, websites, online documents, and drives, then extracts, chunks, indexes, and tests retrieval.Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Knowledge pipelines
Knowledge Pipeline turns files, online documents, drives, crawlers, and web content into searchable knowledge bases with metadata and citations.Read 1 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Limit: support responsiveness
The same G2 review said paid-plan support sometimes returned generic documentation referrals instead of implementation help.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Limit: workflow variables
A G2 reviewer reported that hidden startup variables, low cloud variable-size limits, and missing list-membership operations blocked some personalization and routing workflows.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Marketplace scale
Dify’s LinkedIn page reported more than 1,000 plugins and 300 workflow templates in October 2026.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com
Model integrations
Dify connects to proprietary and open-source LLM providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and xAI.Read 1 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Praise: ease of use
G2 reviewers repeatedly describe Dify as easy to use, quick to implement, and straightforward for building AI workflows and content tools.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Praise: integrations and support
G2 reviewers praise its integrations, API and web-app deployment options, self-hosting flexibility, and responsive customer support.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Publishing
Dify applications can be published as hosted web apps, website embeds, API endpoints, or MCP servers.Read 1 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Publishing and observability
Dify apps can be delivered as web experiences, APIs, embeds, or MCP-compatible tools, with logs, feedback, annotations, latency, and usage monitoring.Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Rating on G2
4.1 out of 5 from 20 reviews.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Rating on Gartner Peer Insights
4.0 out of 5 from 1 rating.Read 15 Oct 2026 · gartner.com
Retrieval
Knowledge Pipeline supports semantic, keyword, hybrid, and reranked retrieval with metadata filters and citations.Read 1 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Security certifications
Dify’s Trust Center lists GDPR, SOC 2, and ISO 27001:2022 compliance and says paid customers can request SOC 2 Type 1 and penetration-test reports.Read 15 Oct 2026 · security.dify.ai
Self-hosting
Community Edition can be deployed with Docker Compose, while Enterprise supports private or VPC deployment and Kubernetes Helm charts.Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Support channels
Community users are directed to documentation, GitHub issues, discussions, Discord, and forums; paid plans include priority email support.Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
System requirements
The Docker deployment requires at least two CPU cores and 4 GiB RAM; supported setups include macOS 10.14+, Linux with Docker 19.03+, and Windows with WSL2.Read 15 Oct 2026 · docs.dify.ai
Tool integrations
The Dify Marketplace provides tools including Slack, Perplexity, ComfyUI, Firecrawl, and more than 200 others.Read 1 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
TrustRadius listing
TrustRadius describes Dify as an AI agent builder combining Backend as a Service, LLMOps, agents, complex workflows, and an RAG engine, with a listed starting price of $59 per month.Read 15 Oct 2026 · trustradius.com
Workflow builder
Workflow Studio uses visual nodes to define prompts, retrieval, decisions, tools, human input, testing, and debugging paths.Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Workflow execution
Workflows can run from user input, API calls, scheduled triggers, webhooks, plugin events, or uploaded payloads.Read 1 Oct 2026 · dify.ai

Plans and prices

Community Free core public-repository features · single workspace · subject to Dify Open Source License Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Community Free Free Core features released under the public repository · single workspace · Dify Open Source License Read 1 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Sandbox Free 200 message credits · 1 workspace · 1 member · 5 apps · 50 knowledge documents · 50MB storage · 3,000 trigger events · 30-day logs · 5,000 API calls/month Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Sandbox Free Free 200 message credits · 1 workspace · 1 member · 5 apps · 50 knowledge documents · 50MB storage · 10 knowledge requests/min · 3,000 trigger events · 30-day log history · 5,000 API requests/month Read 1 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Professional $59 a month monthly 5,000 message credits/month · 3 members · 50 apps · 500 documents · 5GB storage · unlimited logs · no Dify API rate limit Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Team $159 a month monthly 10,000 message credits/month · 50 members · 200 apps · 1,000 documents · 20GB storage · unlimited triggers · unlimited logs · no Dify API rate limit Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Professional $590 a year annually 5,000 message credits/month · 3 members · 50 apps · 500 documents · 5GB storage · unlimited logs · no Dify API rate limit Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Professional $590 a year $590 per workspace / year 5,000 message credits/month · 1 workspace · 3 members · 50 apps · 500 knowledge documents · 5GB storage · 100 knowledge requests/min · 20,000 trigger events/month · unlimited triggers/workflow · unlimited log history · no Dify API rate limit Read 1 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Team $1,590 a year annually 10,000 message credits/month · 50 members · 200 apps · 1,000 documents · 20GB storage · unlimited triggers · unlimited logs · no Dify API rate limit Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Team $1,590 a year $1590 per workspace / year 10,000 message credits/month · 1 workspace · 50 members · 200 apps · 1,000 knowledge documents · 20GB storage · 1,000 knowledge requests/min · unlimited trigger events · unlimited triggers/workflow · unlimited log history · no Dify API rate limit Read 1 Oct 2026 · dify.ai
Enterprise Priced on request commercial license authorization · multiple workspaces · SSO · advanced security controls · negotiated SLAs · official updates and maintenance · professional support Read 15 Oct 2026 · dify.ai

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Strong points and limits

Strong points

  • Visual workflows with human review
  • Multiple knowledge retrieval methods
  • Web, API, embed, and MCP publishing
  • More than 200 Marketplace tools
  • Docker self-hosting available

Limits

  • Professional costs $590 a year
  • Team costs $1,590 a year
  • Enterprise pricing is custom
  • Enterprise controls require Enterprise

Who it suits

Dify suits teams building AI applications that need visual workflows, knowledge grounding, model connections, and multiple publishing options. It also supports organizations requiring self-hosting or enterprise deployment controls.

Verdict

Dify spans application building, retrieval, model integration, publishing, and deployment from free plans through enterprise environments. Its plan limits and annual prices should be matched to workspace, app, knowledge, and usage needs.

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