AutoGPT vs Dify

AutoGPT

• People who want ready-made agent roles before building any workflow
• Recurring research, content and outreach work run on a schedule
• Developers who want to self-host an open-source agent platform

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

AutoGPT

• The hosted cloud has no free plan; Pro starts with a 7-day trial that requires a card.
• Workflow runs are billed from a prepaid credit wallet on every cloud plan, on top of the subscription.
• The Team plan, with multi-user workspaces and admin roles, is listed as coming soon.
• Self-hosting means supplying your own infrastructure and API keys for models and third-party services.

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.

AutoGPT

Experts and Otto

32 ready-made Experts cover roles such as SEO content, sales, bookkeeping and market research. Otto, a generalist agent, hands a brief to the right Expert, or you can talk to one directly.

Routines and scheduled workflows

Recurring work can run on a cron schedule or start from a webhook trigger, with results left for you to review and schedules you can adjust or pause.

Visual workflow builder

A drag-and-drop graph builder composes workflows from blocks, and Otto can generate a workflow from a plain-English description.

Integration blocks and models

More than 200 integration blocks cover tools such as Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Notion and HubSpot, alongside models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI and others.

Access and spending controls

You choose which connected accounts each Expert can use, set a spending approval threshold per Expert, and can place human approval gates inside a workflow.

Self-hosting and API

The platform can be self-hosted with Docker using your own model keys, and a public REST API gives programmatic access to workflows and tasks.

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.

AutoGPT

• Self-Host$0

  The open-source platform run on your own infrastructure with your own model API keys. Support is through the community and GitHub.

• Pro$42.50

  per month, billed yearly ($510)

  Otto and Expert chat at the standard allowance, the visual builder and scheduled workflows. $50 a month when billed monthly.

• Max$272

  per month, billed yearly

  8.5x Pro usage, 5x file storage, priority support and early access to features. $320 a month when billed monthly.

• TeamContact us

  Listed as coming soon: multi-user workspaces, admin controls and roles, centralized billing and seat management.

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.

AutoGPT

• Annual discount

  Save 15% with yearly billing

  The pricing page lists a 15% saving for yearly billing: Pro is $510 a year, equal to $42.50 a month instead of $50, and Max is $272 a month instead of $320.

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.