Dify vs Langflow
Dify (LangGenius) and Langflow (Langflow (DataStax, an IBM company)) side by side on public data, as of Oct 6, 2026.
Dify and Langflow are close on GitHub stars (158K and 156K). Dify shipped 4 stable releases in the past 90 days. Langflow shipped 13 stable releases in the past 90 days.
Side-by-side numbers
| Metric | Dify | Langflow |
|---|---|---|
| Pulse Score | 63 | 47 |
| Overall rank | #12 | #47 |
| Downloads, last 7 days | — | 14.5K |
| Downloads, 7-day change | — | up 32.2% |
| Downloads, 30-day change | — | down 26.6% |
| VS Code installs | — | — |
| Marketplace rating | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 158K | 156K |
| Homebrew installs, 30 days | — | — |
| Hacker News mentions, 30 days | 0 | 0 |
| Latest stable release | 1.17.1 · 26d ago | 1.12.4 · 7d ago |
| Stable releases, 90 days | 4 | 13 |
| Terminal-Bench (best run) | — | — |
| Price | Free | Free (OSS) |
| License | Apache-2.0 with additional conditions | MIT |
| First released | — | — |
| Interfaces | Web app, Self-hosted, REST API | Web app, Desktop, Self-hosted |
| Models |
Trends
Dify
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.
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.
Latest release 1.17.1:
- 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)…
Langflow
A visual, Python-based builder for AI agents and workflows that can also expose flows as APIs and MCP servers.
Pricing: Langflow is open source and free to use; you pay only for the models and infrastructure it runs on.
Latest release 1.12.4:
- fix: reject mixed blocked DNS answers with IP allowlists
- fix(agent): compute recursionlimit accounting for middleware graph nodes
- fix(ci): keep PR filenames out of shell scripts
- fix(twelvelabs): confine Split Video file reads