Dify vs Lyzr (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Dify if

• Fits if your team wants agents and chatbots that answer from your own documents
• Works for teams that have to self-host or keep everything in a private cloud

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you work alone: the first paid step is $59 a month for a 3-member workspace, and Team is $159
• Tight if you're staying on Sandbox, with 1 member, 5 apps and 200 message credits that don't refill
• Not for you if you need SSO or more than one workspace, which are Enterprise only, at a price not published
• Watch out: the free Community Edition means hosting it on Docker yourself, with one workspace and Dify's own license
• Skip it if you want a phone or desktop app, as Dify is a web app

Pick Lyzr if

• Fits if you want to build and test agents free before talking to sales
• Makes sense if your company needs one place to track and govern its agents

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you want help, as the proof of concept is $20,000 for 4 weeks
• Not for you if you want published team pricing, since governance and workflow plans are custom
• Watch out: credits are added as a team grows, and prices are billed yearly in US dollars
• Watch out: fine-tuning and on-prem hardware are extras priced with you

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.

Lyzr

• Only the Build plan has a published price; governance and workflow plans are custom and sold through sales.
• The pricing page lists a fixed-scope proof of concept at $20,000 for 4 weeks, after a free 72-hour test drive.
• The pricing page notes prices are in US dollars, billed yearly, and that credits are added as a team grows.
• Fine-tuning and on-prem hardware are add-ons priced with you.

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.

Lyzr

Agent Studio and Architect

Build agents visually or turn a plain-language brief into a working agent, test against a sandbox, and move them to production without rebuilding.

Opencontroller governance

A control plane that lists every agent, gives each an owner and release gate, and applies policies and spend limits, including to agents built on other platforms.

Workflow automation service

For complex processes, Lyzr's engineers build multi-agent workflows with your team, hosted by Lyzr, in your cloud or on-prem.

Model choice

You use the model provider you already pay for or open-weight models on your own hardware; Lyzr states it does not bill for tokens.

Fine-tuning and on-prem hardware

Openfinetuner trains open-weight models on your data, and Lyzr Optimus is an on-prem appliance that can run air-gapped; both are priced individually.

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.

Lyzr

• Build$0

  Free to build, test and tune agents; add credits only as your team grows.

• Govern every agentCustom

  Yearly plan for the Opencontroller control plane: agent inventory, identity, release gates and guardrails.

• Automate workflowsCustom

  Multi-agent workflows with forward-deployed engineers, starting from a free test drive.

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.

Lyzr

No public discounts listed.