#14 in AI Development PlatformsUpdated 2026-08

Dify

by Dify · Visual canvas for building and deploying AI agents and RAG pipelines

69.7 — BenchRank score out of 100

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Overview

Dify is a platform for building AI agents, workflows and RAG knowledge pipelines on one visual canvas, with model and plugin tool support. Apps are published as a web app or API and monitored from the same workspace. It runs as managed cloud, inside a customer VPC, or self-hosted with Docker via the open-source Community Edition.

Best for: Teams building agent and RAG applications visually, then hosting them on cloud, VPC or self-host
Pricing: Sandbox and Community editions are free and Enterprise is contact-sales; the paid Cloud plans (Professional and Team) are billed in US dollars per workspace per year, but the actual figures were not legible in the captured page.
Runs on: WebSelf-hosted

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

Visual canvas for agents, RAG pipelines, tools and plugins
Same platform on cloud, VPC or self-hosted Docker
Community Edition is source-available under Apache-2.0-derivative
Enterprise adds SSO/SAML, RBAC, audit logs, SOC 2, ISO 27001

Trade-offs

Professional plan is capped at 3 team members and 1 workspace
SSO and multiple workspaces are Enterprise, contact-sales only
Cloud plans are billed per workspace per year, not per seat
Free Sandbox tier allows only 200 message credits and 5 apps

Pricing

Published plans from Dify’s own pricing page, in USD. Usage charges and add-ons may apply on top.

Dify pricing tiers, monthly rates in USD
Plan	Monthly	Includes
Professional	—per workspace / year	5,000 message credits / month 1 workspace, 3 team members, 50 apps 500 knowledge documents, 5GB storage 20,000 trigger events / month, unlimited log history
Team	—per workspace / year	10,000 message credits / month 1 workspace, 50 team members, 200 apps 1,000 knowledge documents, 20GB storage Unlimited trigger events, priority workflow execution
Sandbox	—per workspace	200 message credits 1 workspace, 1 team member, 5 apps 50 knowledge documents, 50MB storage 30 days log history, 5,000 API calls / month
Enterprise	Contact sales	Self-host or VPC deployment with commercial licence SSO, multiple workspaces, advanced security controls Negotiated SLAs and professional technical support Official updates and maintenance
Community	—	All core features from the public repository Single workspace, self-hosted with Docker Aimed at non-commercial projects and individuals Community Discord and forum support

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support: 60 out of 100
API quality: 25 out of 100
Documentation: 90 out of 100
Agent friendliness: 100 out of 100
Pricing transparency: 85 out of 100
Changelog: 100 out of 100
Marketing site structure: 60 out of 100
Operational trust: 60 out of 100

Measured, but not part of the score

Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.

Openness: 55 out of 100
Maintenance: 100 out of 100

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