Pipelines & RAGOpen Source✦ Free Tier

Dify

OSS LLM app development platform

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Open-source platform with a visual workflow builder, model management, RAG pipeline, and agent capabilities in one product.

Choose Dify when…

  • You want a self-hosted LLM app platform
  • Non-technical users need to build AI workflows
  • You need a backend and frontend in one tool

Builder Slot

How do your AI calls chain together?Optional for most stacks

The pipeline layer that connects LLM calls, retrieval, and data processing into a workflow

Dev Tools
Not applicable
App Infra
Optional
Hybrid
Optional

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Integrates with (3)

LangfuseLLM Infrastructure

Dify exports traces via its observability integration to Langfuse, capturing every LLM call and tool invocation in its workflows.

Observability on top of Dify's no-code AI apps — trace costs and latency even without writing pipeline code.

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QdrantLLM Infrastructure

Dify connects to a self-hosted Qdrant instance as its knowledge base vector store — documents are chunked, embedded, and stored in Qdrant.

Self-hosted knowledge retrieval inside Dify workflows, keeping document data on your own infrastructure.

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LiteLLMLLM Infrastructure

Dify accepts LiteLLM's OpenAI-compatible endpoint as a custom model provider in its model settings.

Every model LiteLLM supports becomes available in Dify's no-code workflow builder without touching the workflow itself.

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Alternatives to consider (1)

Pricing

✦ Free tier available
Cloud ProPaid

Ruled out by 2 stacks

No-Code AI Automation Stack
Dify competes directly with Flowise for the visual LLM-builder role — pick one platform, not both.
Multi-Agent DevOps Stack
App-layer platform, not suitable for CI/CD pipeline orchestration

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