Agenta vs Dify

Agenta

• Teams that want to self-host their agent platform under an MIT license
• Paying by usage for a whole team instead of per seat
• Recurring jobs such as research briefs, code review and reports

Dify

• Teams building retrieval-backed agents and chatbots on their own data
• Organizations that need to self-host or deploy in a private cloud
• Developers who want to bring their own model API keys

Agenta

• AI model costs are not included: you connect your own provider credentials and pay the provider directly.
• The Hobby plan stops running agents after 5,000 runs in a month and allows 2 team members and 20 evaluations a month.
• On Agenta Cloud, SSO and role-based access control start at Business ($299 a month); audit logs and custom domains are Enterprise only.
• Running agents on a Claude or ChatGPT subscription works only on a self-hosted deployment, not on Agenta Cloud.

Dify

• The Sandbox plan's 200 message credits are a one-time grant; after that you supply your own model API keys.
• Cloud plans are priced per workspace with member caps: 1 on Sandbox, 3 on Professional and 50 on Team.
• SSO, multiple workspaces and a commercial license are part of the Enterprise edition only.
• The free Community Edition is limited to a single workspace and uses Dify's own Apache-2.0-derived license.

Agenta

Agents built by chatting

You describe the job in chat and refine the agent's instructions and skills as you go. Prebuilt templates cover engineering, support, sales, knowledge and operations.

Automations and triggers

An agent can run on a schedule or start when an event happens in a connected tool, such as a new pull request. Every run is logged with its duration and estimated cost.

Integrations, MCP and skills

Agents work across more than 1,000 integrations and any MCP server you add. Skills are reusable instruction files that can be swapped without rewriting the agent.

Harness and model choice

Three harnesses ship with it: Claude Code, Pi and Codex. Models come from your own provider accounts, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, AWS Bedrock and Azure OpenAI.

Permissions, approvals and a secret vault

You decide which actions run automatically, which wait for approval and which are blocked. Credentials sit in a vault the agent can use but cannot read.

Tracing, evaluations and versions

Each run produces a trace of its model and tool calls, tokens and latency. Agent changes are versioned and can be compared, and evaluations include LLM-as-a-judge.

Dify

Workflow Studio

A visual canvas for workflows and chatflows, where blocks define how an app retrieves data, makes decisions, calls tools, asks for human input and completes a task.

Agents

Agents are built by chatting or by manual configuration with skills, tools and knowledge, then used as an app, embedded in a website or reused as a node inside a workflow.

Knowledge pipeline

Repeatable pipelines extract, clean, chunk and index files, websites, online documents and drives into a knowledge base, with retrieval testing before it is connected to an app.

Marketplace and plugins

Model providers, tools, data sources and MCP integrations are installed from the Marketplace or defined yourself, and reused across the apps in a workspace.

Publishing and monitoring

Apps ship as hosted web apps, API endpoints, embeds or MCP-compatible tools, with logs, feedback, annotations, latency and usage data to review.

Cloud, enterprise or self-hosted

Use Dify Cloud, deploy the Enterprise edition in your own VPC or on Kubernetes with a Helm chart, or self-host the Community Edition with Docker.

Agenta

• Hobby$0

  Agenta Cloud with 2 team members, unlimited projects, agents and workflows, 5,000 agent runs a month and 1-week trace retention.

• Open source$0

  Self-hosted edition with unlimited users, agents and runs, role-based access control, SSO, tracing and evaluations. You run it yourself with Docker Compose.

• Pro$29

  per month, any number of users

  Unlimited team members, schedules and event triggers, 10,000 agent runs a month, then $5 per additional 10,000, and 1-month trace retention.

• Business$299

  per month, any number of users

  Everything in Pro plus team roles and role-based access control, SSO, a SOC 2 Type II report, 3-month trace retention and priority support.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Cloud or self-hosted, with audit logs, custom domains, deployment support, dedicated support and a custom service-level agreement.

Dify

• SandboxFree

  1 member, 5 apps, 50 knowledge documents, 50 MB of knowledge storage, 200 one-time message credits and 30 days of log history.

• CommunityFree

  Open-source edition you self-host with Docker: all core features in the public repository, a single workspace and community support.

• Professional$59

  per workspace / month ($590 per year billed annually)

  3 team members, 50 apps, 5,000 message credits a month, 500 knowledge documents, 5 GB of storage and 20,000 trigger events a month.

• Team$159

  per workspace / month ($1,590 per year billed annually)

  50 team members, 200 apps, 10,000 message credits a month, 1,000 knowledge documents, 20 GB of storage and unlimited trigger events.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Self-hosted or VPC deployment with a commercial license, multiple workspaces, SSO, advanced security controls and professional support.

Agenta

• Startups

  Discounted or free access for startups

  The pricing FAQ says early-stage startups can email the team to ask about discounted or free access, describing what they are building and how they plan to use Agenta.

• Education

  Discounts for students and researchers

  The same FAQ invites students and researchers to email the team about discounted or free access. No fixed rate is published.

Dify

• Annual discount

  Save 17% with annual billing

  Dify's pricing page lists a 17% saving for annual billing: Professional is $590 a year instead of $59 a month, and Team is $1,590 a year instead of $159 a month.

• Education

  Free Professional plan for students and educators

  Verified students, teachers and school staff aged 18 or over can use the Yearly Professional plan at no cost, re-verified each year. Message credits stay at the Sandbox level of 200.