- Knowledge base service-API keys were scoped to the whole workspace: one key could read and write every knowledge base in the tenant, so giving an integration access to a single knowledge base…
- The workflow canvas required a mouse to reposition anything. Nodes, multi-node selections, comment markers, and draft comments can now be moved with the arrow keys — hold Shift for larger steps —…
- Plugin authors now have public profile pages at /marketplace/creator/<handle>, listing their creations with a publisher sidebar, reachable from a new Creator Center entry in the sidebar help menu.…
- The Markdown form field-name limit was hard-coded at 128 characters, with no way to accommodate longer generated field names. It is now configurable through MARKDOWNFORMFIELDNAMEMAXLENGTH (Docker)…
- CSV cells were passed through pandas type inference before indexing. Leading-zero codes became floats (00123 → 123.0), empty cells became the literal string nan, and cells containing NA or NULL…
- Notion table rows lost or gained columns. Each rich-text segment inside a cell was emitted as its own Markdown column, so any cell with mixed formatting — bold, links, mentions — produced extra…
Dify by LangGenius
Agent builders and workflow automation
#12 overall#2 in categoryOpen source · Apache-2.0 with additional conditions
Pulse Score
63 / 100
Rank #12 of 157
GitHub stars
158K
about +73 a day
Website rank (Tranco)
#49,887
dify.ai
Latest release
1.17.1
26d ago · 1 in 30 days
Price
Free
checked Oct 6, 2026
Overview
An open-source platform for building agentic workflows, retrieval pipelines and LLM applications with a visual builder. Available self-hosted or as a cloud service.
The GitHub repository has 158K stars, 3,662 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.17.1, published Sep 10, 2026; there were 1 stable releases in the past 30 days.
Dify usage and attention over time
Download the raw daily series: dify.csv
Install Dify
| Docker | docker pull langgenius/dify-api |
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These commands use the packages tracked on this page. The vendor may recommend a different installer; see the official documentation.
Key facts
| Maker | LangGenius |
|---|---|
| Type | LLM app and agent platform |
| License | Apache-2.0 with additional conditions |
| Interfaces | Web app, Self-hosted, REST API |
| Main language | TypeScript |
| Open issues and PRs | 1,072 |
| Docker Hub pulls | 24,464,969 |
Pricing
The community edition is free to self-host. Dify Cloud has a free tier and paid plans; see the pricing page for current plans.
Source: official pricing page, checked Oct 6, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.
Pulse Score breakdown
Adoption65
Community92
Attention—
Momentum51
Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.
What changed: recent Dify releases
4 stable releases in the last 90 days · Full changelog
- E2B sandbox backend: agent shell/code execution can now run on E2B cloud sandboxes in addition to the local sandbox. Select the backend with DIFYAGENTRUNTIMEBACKEND; a new docker-compose.e2b.yaml…
- Build-time Home Snapshots: when an agent build is applied (published), the agent's sandbox home directory — installed packages, prepared files, working state — is captured and subsequent runs of…
- Workspace-level Skill management: Skills are reusable, versioned capabilities packaged with code and tool definitions that agents can discover and invoke. A new workspace-level skills manager with…
- Context-aware history compaction: long agent conversations no longer blow past the model's context window — Dify resolves each model's effective window and tiers compaction (clear old tool results…
- Define a shared provider/model/mode/parameter configuration once (e.g. forsummarize, forresearch) and reference it from any LLM node. Coordinated model changes now happen in one place instead of…
- Human-in-the-loop forms now work inside Loop and Iteration nodes, pausing and resuming correctly across page refreshes for both debug and installed apps — enabling review/approval steps within…
- Workflow tool nodes now support multi-select dropdown inputs, allowing users to choose multiple values from a predefined list when configuring tool parameters. (#39346)
- You can now click a nodeid in workflow run logs or error messages to locate and highlight the corresponding node in the workflow editor canvas. (#38187)
- The block selector panel now features improved keyboard navigation, category previews, and a more intuitive search experience when adding nodes to workflows. (#39212)
- Agent apps can now be exported as DSL YAML directly from the app sidebar menu, making it easy to back up or version-control agent configurations. (#39299)
- Added more observability traces to knowledge/RAG document processing operations, improving visibility into indexing pipelines. (#38959)
- Fixed hidden-tab collaboration leader saving stale drafts when the tab is inactive (#38997)
- A builder for creating Dify Agents
- You can build Dify Agents through the UI: set a base prompt, upload Skills and files, and connect tools and knowledge from the Dify ecosystem.
- We also provide an agent that helps you build Dify Agents. Through conversation, it can configure the Linux sandbox environment, install required packages, and create new Skills and files that…
- Dify Workflow integration for Dify Agent
- You can use an existing Dify Agent in a Dify Workflow, or temporarily create an inline Dify Agent. It will execute the task defined by the workflow node, generate the required output, and pass it…
- A new web app experience
- Redesigned landing / onboarding for an easier first-run experience (#37433, #37844, #37800)
- Faster navigation — improved "go to anything" palette and autofocused search inputs (#32130, #37175)
- Safer deletes — one-click confirmation before removing an app (#37263)
- Cleaner workflow editor with collapsible panels (#37276)
- Clearer notifications — consistent toasts that show long errors in full (#37382, #37581)
- More accessible — plugin permission hints, restored contact-us menu, skip-nav link, and keyboard focus polish (#37310, #37774, #37644)
- Tenant-scoped sensitive endpoints — strengthened tenant isolation for app trace-config endpoints and FilePreview text extraction. Thanks @xr843 in #35793 and #35797.
- Tool credential safety — restricted default builtin tool credential updates to workspace admins and owners, and cleaned stale tenant tool credentials during reset-encrypt-key-pair. Thanks…
- Workflow execution reliability — restored tracing after HITL workflow resume, improved workflow run callback tracking, reduced message-update database roundtrips, fixed memory fetches outside…
- Workflow and model selection polish — fixed loading behavior when no model is selected, filtered model presets by supported parameters, and improved API extension dialog controls. Thanks @iamjoel…
- Knowledge-base stability — fixed knowledge hit-testing rendering, empty knowledge creation, recommended app category ordering, and null handling in recommended app detail retrieval. Thanks @FFXN,…
- RAG and document processing — allowed LLM nodes to access retrieved knowledge files, regenerated document summaries after API updates, fixed pipeline template rendering, and handled credential…
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Guides that cover Dify
Dify FAQ
How much does Dify cost?
The community edition is free to self-host. Dify Cloud has a free tier and paid plans; see the pricing page for current plans.
Is Dify open source?
Yes. Dify is open source, released under the Apache-2.0 with additional conditions license.
How popular is Dify?
The GitHub repository has 158K stars, 3,662 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.17.1, published Sep 10, 2026; there were 1 stable releases in the past 30 days.
What is the latest version of Dify?
The latest stable release we track is 1.17.1, published on Sep 10, 2026.
What are the alternatives to Dify?
The closest alternatives in the same category by Pulse Score are n8n, Flowise, Langflow, Activepieces.
Where these numbers come from
GitHub: langgenius/dify. Site rank: dify.ai on the Tranco list. See data sources for how each one is collected.