# Dify

> Open-source platform for building AI agents and agentic workflows

Dify is a platform for building AI applications: agents, chatbots and multi-step workflows assembled on a visual canvas and grounded in knowledge bases built from your own files and websites. Finished apps are published as hosted web apps, embeds, API endpoints or MCP-compatible tools, with logs and annotations for monitoring. It is sold as a hosted cloud service priced per workspace and a self-hosted Enterprise edition, alongside a free open-source Community Edition deployed with Docker.

- **Category:** AI Agents
- **Made by:** LangGenius, Inc.
- **Website:** https://dify.ai
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 5, 2026

## Pricing

Dify has a free plan. Paid plans start at $590 per workspace / year (Professional); $59 billed monthly.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Sandbox plan: 1 member, 5 apps, 50 knowledge documents, 50 MB of knowledge storage and 200 one-time message credits. The self-hosted Community Edition is also free.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sandbox | Free | 1 member, 5 apps, 50 knowledge documents, 50 MB of knowledge storage, 200 one-time message credits and 30 days of log history. |
| Community | Free | 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. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Self-hosted or VPC deployment with a commercial license, multiple workspaces, SSO, advanced security controls and professional support. |

Read from https://dify.ai/pricing on Oct 5, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Dify before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 17% with annual billing** (Annual discount): 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. Source: https://dify.ai/pricing
- **Free Professional plan for students and educators** (Education): 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. Source: https://dify.ai/education

## Key features

- **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.

## Good for

- 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

## Worth knowing

- 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.

## Works with

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, xAI, Notion, LangSmith, Langfuse

**Tags:** AI agents, Workflow automation, No-code, Open source, Self-hostable, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Langflow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/langflow): Open-source visual builder for AI agents and MCP servers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dify-vs-langflow)
- [n8n](https://toolgpa.com/tools/n8n): Workflow automation and AI agents you can self-host. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dify-vs-n8n)
- [MindStudio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mindstudio): No-code builder for AI agents, with 200+ models billed at cost. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dify-vs-mindstudio)
- [Vellum](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vellum-ai): Personal AI assistant with long-term memory that acts across apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dify-vs-vellum-ai)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 5, 2026:

- https://dify.ai
- https://dify.ai/pricing
- https://dify.ai/pricing/dify-cloud
- https://dify.ai/education
- https://dify.ai/about-us
- https://docs.dify.ai/en/cloud/use-dify/workspace/subscription-management
- https://docs.dify.ai/en/cloud/use-dify/getting-started/introduction

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