Dify vs Wordware (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 Wordware if

• Fits if you want to describe a workflow in plain English and run it
• Makes sense if you want to start free and see how far it goes

Look elsewhere if

• Watch out: the main site now leads with Sauna and links the editor as Wordware v1
• Not for you if you want a price, as the pricing link returns a not-found error
• Watch out: the company's own story, dated October 2025, describes a shift in focus
• Tight if you need limits spelled out, since the free sign-up lists none

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.

Wordware

• The pricing link on the product page returns a not-found error, so no plan prices could be read and none are listed.
• The main wordware.ai site now leads with Sauna, a separate assistant product, and links the original Wordware editor as Wordware v1.
• The company's story page, dated October 2025, describes a shift in focus; check that the editor is still sold before building on it.

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.

Wordware

Prompt-based editor

Everything typed into the editor is a prompt. Typing a slash adds a node, and each flow is both the documentation and the program.

Flow nodes

The docs list Generation, Structured Generation, Loop, If-Else, Code execution, Tool, Ask a Human and other node types for building a flow step by step.

Triggers and actions

Flows can start from a trigger such as a new form response and then act in connected apps, for example posting a message to Slack.

Publish and deploy

A finished flow can be published and called through an API, and flows can call other flows.

Many model providers

The product page example flow mixes Perplexity, Claude and GPT models inside one workflow.

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.

Wordware

Pricing could not be confirmed. See wordware.ai.

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.

Wordware

No public discounts listed.