Dify

Web · Self-hosted · API · paid plans from $49.17/mo

Freedom report

Two barsScore 6.4

Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely1 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

Dify is ranked #12 of 73 in AI agent platforms on Freedom251. It runs on API, Self-hosted, Web. There is a free plan. Paid plans start at $49.17/mo.

Dify plans and pricing

All plans

Sandbox Free Free 200 message credits · 1 workspace · 1 member · 5 apps · 50 knowledge documents · 50MB storage · 10 knowledge requests/min · 3,000 trigger events · 30-day log history · 5,000 API requests/month dify.ai · 1 Oct 2026

Community Free Free Core features released under the public repository · single workspace · Dify Open Source License dify.ai · 1 Oct 2026

Professional $590/yr $590 per workspace / year 5,000 message credits/month · 1 workspace · 3 members · 50 apps · 500 knowledge documents · 5GB storage · 100 knowledge requests/min · 20,000 trigger events/month · unlimited triggers/workflow · unlimited log history · no Dify API rate limit dify.ai · 1 Oct 2026

Team $1,590/yr $1590 per workspace / year 10,000 message credits/month · 1 workspace · 50 members · 200 apps · 1,000 knowledge documents · 20GB storage · 1,000 knowledge requests/min · unlimited trigger events · unlimited triggers/workflow · unlimited log history · no Dify API rate limit dify.ai · 1 Oct 2026

Enterprise Not published Custom Scalable deployment solutions · commercial license authorization · multiple workspaces · SSO · negotiated SLAs · advanced security controls · official updates and maintenance · professional technical support dify.ai · 1 Oct 2026

Compared on AI agent platforms

Free plan: Yes
Paid from: $59/mo
Deployment model: both
Visual agent builder: Yes
Knowledge grounding: Yes
Voice agent support: Yes
Human handoff: Yes

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The record

Purpose: Dify is an open-source platform for building AI applications with agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, model management, observability, and tools.
Workflow builder: Workflow Studio combines model calls, knowledge retrieval, tools, code, branching, triggers, and human review on a collaborative visual canvas.
Workflow execution: Workflows can run from user input, API calls, scheduled triggers, webhooks, plugin events, or uploaded payloads.
Knowledge pipelines: Knowledge Pipeline turns files, online documents, drives, crawlers, and web content into searchable knowledge bases with metadata and citations.
Retrieval: Knowledge Pipeline supports semantic, keyword, hybrid, and reranked retrieval with metadata filters and citations.
Publishing: Dify applications can be published as hosted web apps, website embeds, API endpoints, or MCP servers.
Model integrations: Dify connects to proprietary and open-source LLM providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and xAI.
Tool integrations: The Dify Marketplace provides tools including Slack, Perplexity, ComfyUI, Firecrawl, and more than 200 others.
Enterprise deployment: Dify Enterprise can run inside a customer VPC, on-premises, or in an air-gapped network, with Helm deployment for Kubernetes.
Enterprise controls: Enterprise includes SAML/OIDC SSO, workflow-level RBAC, SCIM provisioning, tamper-evident audit logs, per-call traces, and PII-redacted prompt history.
Compliance: Dify reports completing SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 audits and maintaining GDPR compliance for the second consecutive year.
Support: Sandbox support is community and help documentation, while Professional and Team include priority email support.
Self-hosting: The Community Edition is open-source and self-deployable with Docker.
Founded: 2023
Price from: $49.17/mo

Where it ranks on Freedom251

Best AI Agent Platforms in 2026#12 of 73
Best Retrieval-Augmented Generation Tools in 2026#5 of 26

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Sources

github.com/langgenius/dify· checked 1 Oct 2026
dify.ai/workflows· checked 1 Oct 2026
dify.ai/rag· checked 1 Oct 2026
dify.ai/dify-cloud· checked 1 Oct 2026
dify.ai/dify-enterprise· checked 1 Oct 2026
dify.ai/blog/dify-achieves-soc-2-iso-27001-gdpr· checked 1 Oct 2026
dify.ai/pricing/dify-cloud· checked 1 Oct 2026
dify.ai/about-us· checked 1 Oct 2026
dify.ai· checked 28 Sept 2026
dify.ai/pricing· checked 1 Oct 2026