Dify
Open-source platform for building LLM applications with visual workflow editor.
About
Dify is an open-source platform for developing LLM applications, taking projects from prototype to production through a visual interface. A drag-and-drop workflow canvas sits alongside a RAG pipeline that ingests PDFs, PowerPoint files, and other documents, agent capabilities with more than 50 built-in tools such as Google Search, DALL-E, and WolframAlpha, and a prompt IDE for crafting and comparing prompts. It connects to hundreds of models including GPT, Mistral, and Llama series plus any OpenAI-compatible API, and its LLMOps layer monitors production usage for continuous prompt and model improvement. Applications expose APIs out of the box, so teams can embed them into existing products. Self-hosting requires only Docker Compose on a modest machine, community Helm charts cover Kubernetes, and a hosted Dify Cloud is available. The code ships under the Dify Open Source License, an Apache 2.0 variant with extra conditions. Teams that want visual orchestration instead of glue code are the core audience.
Should you use Dify?
Pick it when
Choose Dify when a team wants to ship RAG chatbots and agent workflows from a visual canvas, with document ingestion, prompt comparison, usage monitoring, and an API per app, self-hosted with Docker Compose or on Dify Cloud.
Look elsewhere when
Its license is an Apache 2.0 variant with extra conditions, so read it before offering Dify as a multi-tenant service or rebranding it. For permissive licensing pick Flowise or Langflow; for logic that lives in code review, LangGraph or Haystack.
Alternatives to Dify
- Flowise
Plain Apache 2.0 core and a lighter Node.js stack; fewer built-in LLMOps and RAG management features than Dify.
- Langflow
MIT-licensed visual builder that exports flows as APIs and MCP servers; less of a full app platform with monitoring.
- n8n
Better when AI is one step inside broader business automations with 400+ integrations; weaker RAG and prompt tooling.
- RAGFlow
Deeper document parsing with chunk-level citations for RAG-heavy work; narrower than Dify's general app builder.
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Details
- Category
- AI Agents & Orchestration
- Price
- Free
- Platform
- Local/Desktop
- Difficulty
- Easy (2/5)
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Added
- Apr 3, 2026