Open-source platform for building production-ready AI applications with workflow, RAG, and agent capabilities.
Why it matters now: All-in-one AI app platform: agents, RAG, workflow, and deployment in one.
Dify is a comprehensive LLM application development platform that unifies workflow orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, multi-agent capabilities, model management, and team collaboration in a single interface. The platform has experienced explosive growth, reaching 144,000+ GitHub stars by mid-2026 and securing $30M Series Pre-A funding at $180M valuation (March 2026).
The v1.0.0 milestone (February 2025) introduced a plugin system and marketplace, transforming Dify from a visual builder into a complete application lifecycle platform. Teams adopt Dify when they need an all-in-one solution spanning prototype to production deployment, particularly for customer support, internal knowledge assistants, and content generation workflows — offering production-grade features like hybrid RAG search and observability that exceed lighter alternatives.
Minimum 2 cores, 4 GB RAM. Production: 16 GB RAM, 4+ cores, 50 GB+ storage; local Ollama models need additional 8 GB RAM.