What Dify does
Dify is an open-source AI application platform with visual workflows, model management, RAG, agents, plugins, APIs, and cloud plans.
Dify combines provider keys, prompts, RAG datasets, workflows, tools, plugins, logs, and deployment surfaces. Community can be self-hosted; Dify Cloud reduces infrastructure work.
Sandbox is free with usage limits. Professional is $590 per workspace annually ($59 monthly equivalent) and Team is $1,590 annually ($159 equivalent). Message credits vary by model; bring-your-own provider keys and Enterprise terms are separate.
Plugins may receive sensitive context, agents can loop, and knowledge can be stale or unauthorized. Review plugin source and permissions, isolate secrets, cap tools and spend, test injection, separate tenants, and confirm cloud region, retention, and subprocessors.
How Dify works
Builders select model providers and compose prompts, variables, retrieval, tools, code, and conditions into chatbots, agents, chatflows, or workflows. Dify executes the graph with workspace credentials, logs configured runs, and publishes web apps or APIs. Owners review versions, plugin permissions, evidence, traces, and feedback before relying on outputs or actions.
How to set up Dify
Bound one application
Define users, evidence, actions, latency, budget, review, and failure handoff.
Choose hosting
Compare cloud plans, Community, and Enterprise for limits and operations.
Configure sources
Add scoped provider keys and current, permissioned knowledge with stable metadata.
Guard workflows
Validate plugins, tools, branches, timeouts, iterations, and confirmations.
Evaluate and monitor
Test normal and adversarial cases, traces, evidence, cost, and rollback.
Dify FAQs
Is Dify open source?
Yes. Community can be self-hosted; cloud and Enterprise differ.
Is cloud use free?
Sandbox is free within current workspace, application, knowledge, message, and API limits.
What are message credits?
They cover eligible model responses at model-dependent rates.
Can it publish APIs?
Yes. Supported applications can be exposed as web apps or APIs.
Are plugins automatically safe?
No. Review publisher, code, permissions, data handling, network access, and updates.
Listing reviewed 2026-08-01. Product details and pricing can change; verify important terms on the provider's website.
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