Dify vs Langflow
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Dify
Open-source canvas for LLM workflows, RAG knowledge bases and agents
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Langflow
Open-source drag-and-drop builder for agents, RAG and MCP
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.2 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Self-hosted Community edition free under the Dify Open Source License; Cloud Sandbox: 200 message credits total, 1 member, 5 apps, 50 docs | Free and open source (MIT): self-host via pip, uv or Docker, or download the free Langflow Desktop app for macOS and Windows |
| Paid from | $59/month (Professional, or $590/year) | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | Over 1.4 million machines (self-hosted), 180,000+ developers | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | LangGenius, Inc. | IBM (via its DataStax acquisition) |
| Verdict | Dify gives you a visual workflow builder, a RAG pipeline and agents in one self-hostable package, and everything you build becomes an API or MCP server straight away. Releases are frequent, and the August 2026 sandboxed... |
Langflow lets you wire up an agent, a RAG pipeline or an MCP server by dragging components on a canvas, drop into Python where the canvas runs out, and serve the result as an API. It is MIT-licensed, actively maintained... |
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