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Dify vs LangChain

Both are automation tools. Here is what separates them.

DifyLangChain
What it isDify is the platform for production-ready agentic workflows. Build agents, knowledge pipelines, models, and tools on one canvas, deployable on Cloud, in your VPC, or self-hosted.The most widely used framework for building applications on language models, with tracing and evaluation alongside.
CategoryAutomationAutomation
PricingFreemium · Open source · Cloud from $59/moFreemium · Open source · LangSmith from $39/user/mo
How it billsFlat monthlyPer seat
Free tierYesYes
RatingNot yet ratedNot yet rated
Features
  • Visual workflow canvas
  • Built-in RAG pipeline and datasets
  • Agent building with tools
  • Self-hostable
  • Prompt versioning and monitoring
  • Python and JavaScript libraries
  • LangGraph for stateful agents
  • LangSmith tracing and evaluation
  • Very wide integration coverage
  • Large community
What works
  • Visual building without giving up self-hosting
  • RAG works out of the box
  • Active development
  • Enormous ecosystem and documentation
  • Observability tooling is genuinely good
  • Model-agnostic
What does not
  • Documentation lags the features
  • Self-hosting needs infrastructure
  • Less flexible than writing code
  • Abstractions add indirection
  • API has churned across versions
  • Easy to over-engineer with

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