Build production-ready agentic workflows in the cloud or on your own infrastructure.
A collaborative platform for building and deploying agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, and AI applications.
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Why it matters
Dify 1.16.1 isolates the local agent sandbox behind a restricted proxy, adds token authentication between internal services, blocks template-injection risks, and patches a React Server Components denial-of-service issue.
Recommended action
Self-hosted teams should upgrade and replace the default DIFY_AGENT_API_TOKEN and AGENT_BACKEND_API_TOKEN with the same strong production secret.
Dify's official product, documentation, and pricing pages confirm managed cloud, Community self-hosting, Enterprise deployment, visual workflows, agents, RAG, plugins, APIs, and monitoring. Cloud quotas and prices can change, so verify the checkout page before purchase.
Dify is a visual platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring AI applications. It brings workflows, chatflows, agents, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), model-provider configuration, plugins, APIs, logs, and team workspaces into one product. Teams can start with the managed Dify Cloud service, self-host the Community edition, or discuss private Enterprise deployment. Dify is most useful when a team wants application logic to remain visible and editable instead of burying prompts, retrieval, and tool calls inside custom code.
Workflow and Chatflow Studio
Connect model, retrieval, logic, tool, code, and output nodes in a visual execution path that teams can test and revise.
Agents and Tool Use
Build assistants that can select approved tools and complete multi-step tasks within configured instructions and limits.
Knowledge Pipelines and RAG
Import, process, index, retrieve, and manage documents or external knowledge sources for grounded applications.
Models and Plugins
Configure multiple model providers and extend applications with marketplace or custom tools, data sources, models, and triggers.
Deploy and Observe
Publish applications as web experiences or APIs, then use logs, feedback, annotations, and integrations to review runtime behavior.
Cloud or Self-Hosted
Choose a managed workspace for speed, the Community edition for infrastructure control, or an Enterprise deployment path.
Prices, plan limits, and promotions may change. Verify final pricing on the official site. Last verified: 2026-07-29.
Dify is a strong choice for teams that want to move from an AI application idea to a visible, deployable workflow without building every orchestration component from scratch. Its biggest advantage is breadth: workflows, agents, RAG, model access, plugins, deployment, and monitoring live in one environment. That breadth is also the main tradeoff. Buyers should compare the convenience of Dify Cloud with the operational responsibility of self-hosting, then estimate model, storage, trigger, and team usage rather than choosing only by the headline workspace price.
What is Dify?
Dify is a platform for building AI applications with visual workflows, chatflows, agents, RAG knowledge bases, model providers, plugins, APIs, and runtime monitoring.
Is Dify free?
Dify Cloud has a free Sandbox plan with usage limits. The Community edition can also be self-hosted without a Dify subscription, although infrastructure, operations, and model-provider usage still have their own costs.
Does Dify include AI model usage?
Dify Cloud includes a limited number of message credits that vary by plan and model. When those credits are exhausted, users can connect their own model-provider API keys and pay the applicable provider charges.
Should I use Dify Cloud or self-host Dify?
Choose Dify Cloud when managed setup and faster onboarding matter most. Consider self-hosting when infrastructure control is important and your team can handle upgrades, backups, security, monitoring, and scaling.
Who should use Dify?
Dify is best suited to product, developer, operations, and knowledge teams building repeatable AI applications that combine models, retrieval, tools, APIs, and visible workflow logic.
Can Dify applications be published for other users?
Yes. Dify documents publishing applications as web apps and APIs. Available limits, branding, collaboration, and operational controls depend on the selected plan and deployment model.
💰 Pricing Breakdown
Dify Cloud lists a free Sandbox plan, Professional at $59 per workspace/month or $590 annually, and Team at $159 per workspace/month or $1,590 annually. The Community edition is free to self-host, but infrastructure and model-provider costs remain separate. Verified July 29, 2026; quotas and prices may change.
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