Dify

App in the BluixApps catalog

What it is

Dify is an open-source LLM application development platform — visual workflow builder, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, agent system, model management, monitoring. The "platform" layer for building AI applications: chatbots, agents, copilots, RAG apps.

Where Flowise/Langflow are LangChain-visual, Dify is platform-first with broader scope.

What it's for

  • LLM app development — visual workflows for AI products
  • RAG over your docs — full RAG pipeline visual builder
  • Agent systems — define agents with tools + memory
  • Chatbot deployment — embed AI apps on marketing sites
  • API exposure — every flow becomes a REST endpoint

Who it's for

  • AI engineering teams building LLM products at scale
  • Product teams wanting visual AI workflow design
  • Indie SaaS founders shipping AI features without writing chains
  • Agencies delivering AI products to clients faster
  • Enterprises standardizing AI workflow tooling

Why teams pick Dify over alternatives

  • Apache 2.0 — fully open
  • Platform-grade — beyond pure LangChain visualization
  • Multi-tenant — workspaces + apps + members
  • Strong RAG — document ingestion + chunking + retrieval built in
  • Active development — backed by LangGenius
  • Plugin marketplace — extend with tools

Integrations

  • LLM providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, Mistral, Cohere, AWS Bedrock, 40+ more
  • Vector stores — Weaviate (built-in), Qdrant, Milvus, pgvector, Pinecone
  • Document loaders — PDF, DOCX, Markdown, HTML, web URLs, Notion, Confluence
  • Tools — web search, code interpreter, custom HTTP, MCP servers
  • Auth — local + OAuth (Google, GitHub, custom OIDC) + SAML
  • API — REST + WebSocket for chat
  • Embedded chatbots<script> tag for marketing sites

Notable users & community

  • 60k+ GitHub stars
  • Used by enterprises building internal AI tools
  • Backed by LangGenius with sustainable commercial cloud
  • Active Discord community
  • Featured in LLM platform comparisons

Tips & operations

  • Heavy stack — 10+ containers, 4 GB RAM minimum, 8+ recommended
  • First-run wait — services take 5-10 min to fully boot
  • Persistent storage critical — vectors + chats + workspace config
  • Workspace isolation — multi-team setups need careful permission design
  • API rate limit — Dify exposes API endpoints; rate-limit at proxy
  • Backup is multi-volume — Postgres + Weaviate + uploads + sandbox

What we ship in BluixApps

  • Official Dify docker-compose (10+ services)
  • Auto-generated SECRET_KEY
  • Console + API on port 8086 (mapped from nginx 80)
  • Persistent volumes for all stateful services
  • Pre-configured to detect Ollama on same VPS for local LLM
  • Compose at /opt/dify/repo/docker/docker-compose.yaml
  • Backup hook covers Postgres + Weaviate + uploads
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TierTenantsCatalogSupportWhite-labelMonthly
Stacks119 curated stacksStandard$19/moDetailDeploy
Starter10Full catalogStandard+$15–25/mo$49/moDetailDeploy
Pro25Full catalogPriority bugfix+$15–25/mo$149/moDetailDeploy
Growth100Full catalogPriority bugfix+$15–25/mo$349/moDetailDeploy
Scale500Full catalog7-day window+$15–25/mo$799/moDetailDeploy
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