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200 message credits total, 1 workspace
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Per workspace pricing, 3 team members
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Per workspace pricing, save $318 with annual billing
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You manage the infrastructure
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Yes. The self-hosted Community Edition runs under Apache 2.0 with the full feature set and no usage limits. You pay only for your own infrastructure (server, database, LLM API keys). There's no separate license fee or hidden enterprise gate on core features.
Dify is a visual platform. LangChain and LlamaIndex are code-level frameworks. Dify is faster for prototyping and accessible to non-engineers, but the visual builder limits flexibility for complex custom logic. Teams that need full programmatic control over every step should use LangChain or LlamaIndex. Teams that want faster iteration and broader team access should consider Dify.
Dify supports OpenAI (GPT-4o, o1), Anthropic (Claude 3.5/4), Google (Gemini), Mistral, Cohere, and self-hosted models via Ollama or compatible APIs. You can use different models for different nodes in the same workflow and switch providers without rebuilding.
Yes, with caveats. The cloud Professional plan supports up to 5,000 messages/month, which is enough for internal tools but tight for customer-facing applications. Self-hosted has no limits beyond your infrastructure. For high-volume production use, self-hosted is the recommended path.
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