Dify: pricing, free plan, features & alternatives (2026)

What is Dify?

Dify is a platform for building production-ready agentic workflows and RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) pipelines on one visual canvas. It combines a workflow editor, a knowledge pipeline for preparing searchable knowledge bases, a marketplace of tools, models and integrations, and an agent runtime. Users can build agents by chatting with the platform or by configuring skills, tools and knowledge manually, then publish them as a web app or API, embed them into a website, or reuse them as nodes inside other workflows.

The platform is offered as a managed cloud service (Dify Cloud), as a private enterprise deployment in your own VPC or on Kubernetes, and as a source-available community edition that can be self-hosted with Docker. In practice, teams can use it to automate tasks, answer questions over their own documents, and ship AI apps without rebuilding their stack when they move from testing to production.

Key features

Visual workflow editor for agentic workflows
Knowledge pipeline for preparing searchable knowledge bases (RAG)
Marketplace of tools, models and integrations
Build agents by chat or manual configuration with skills and tools
Publish apps as web app or API, or embed them into a website
Cloud, VPC or self-hosted deployment

Who is it for

Developers building AI apps
Enterprise teams needing private deployment
Business teams building internal AI assistants without coding
Organizations with strict security and audit requirements

How to get started with Dify

Sign up for the Dify cloud or run the Community edition with Docker.
Create a new app, choosing the agent or workflow type.
Add an AI model and, if needed, a knowledge base with your documents.
Build the flow in the editor, connect the nodes, and test it in preview.

Choose it if

You build an agent or workflow that searches your documents (RAG) and want to see the logic on screen.
You want to move from prototype to production without rewriting the whole stack.
You need deployment in your own VPC or locally, e.g. for security reasons.

Skip it if

You need a free plan for heavy use, since Sandbox has limits on messages and knowledge base queries.
You expect a Polish-language interface, but according to the data the interface is not available in Polish.

Pros and cons

Pros

Visible, debuggable workflow logic on one canvas
Flexible deployment: cloud, VPC or self-hosted with Docker
Open-source community edition with a large GitHub following

Cons

Paid plans are priced per workspace and message credits are limited
Enterprise features such as SSO and SOC 2 are only in the Enterprise offering

Dify pricing

Plan	Price	Includes
Professional	590 USD / year	Per workspace; 5,000 message credits/month, 1 team workspace, 3 team members, 50 apps, 500 knowledge documents, 5GB knowledge storage, 20,000 trigger events/month
Team	1590 USD / year	Per workspace; 10,000 message credits/month, 1 team workspace, 50 team members, 200 apps, 1,000 knowledge documents, 20GB knowledge storage

Prices copied from Dify pricing, checked October 12, 2026. Currency as shown by the vendor; taxes may apply.

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Is Dify free?

Yes, there is a free plan. Community Edition is free to self-host with Docker (source-available). The cloud plans listed on the pricing page start with paid tiers; a sandbox tier is referenced in the pricing text but its details are not fully shown.

Dify alternatives

Tool	Price from	Free plan	Category
Pipedream	99 USD/mo	yes	Website & app builders
Taskade	10 USD/mo	yes	Website & app builders
Base44	16 USD/mo	yes	Website & app builders
JetBrains Air	100 EUR/yr	?	Website & app builders
LangChain	39 USD/mo	yes	Website & app builders
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform	0,75 USD	?	Website & app builders