Dify Pricing in May 2026

Dify's pricing follows tiered structure: Free Sandbox (200 messages/month), Professional at $59/month for 5K messages, Team at $159/month for 10K messages, Enterprise custom-quote. Self-hosted Dify is genuinely free under Apache 2.0.

The Free Plan offer covers basic LLM application building. The strategic decision: Dify's value is the open-source self-hostable model combined with rapid feature development across LLM-app-building (chatbots, agents, RAG, multi-step workflows). For broader LLM application building, LangChain plus LangSmith handles similar scope for engineering teams comfortable with framework code. LlamaIndex targets RAG specifically. LangFlow targets visual LangChain workflows. n8n with AI nodes handles general workflow automation with AI. Flowise is the closest direct open-source alternative to Dify with similar visual workflow builder. Agenta and Vellum AI target engineering-team prototyping with stronger production-deployment features. Stack AI, Relevance AI, and Botpress target no-code AI app builders. ChatGPT GPTs and Claude Projects offer simpler personal AI assistants without infrastructure. For specifically RAG-as-a-service, Mendable, Vectara, and Glean target managed RAG with different positioning. For specifically chatbot-building, Voiceflow, Cognigy, and Botpress target chatbot UX flows. For specifically agentic workflows, CrewAI, AutoGen, and LangGraph target engineering-led multi-agent. Dify's distinctive position is the breadth of LLM-app-building features (chatbots + agents + RAG + workflows) in one open-source platform. For teams who want self-hostable end-to-end LLM application platform, Dify is genuinely competitive. For teams committed to managed SaaS, Vellum AI or Stack AI handle similar scope.