Pick Dify if
product and applied-AI teams who want a visual RAG/agent studio and may later self-host.
Read the Dify pageDify vs Flowise
Our take
Pick Dify if product and applied-AI teams who want a visual RAG/agent studio and may later self-host. Pick Flowise if developers who will run Node locally or in Docker and already have model keys. Skip Dify if someone who only wants ChatGPT, or an engineer who prefers a code-first graph (LangChain) with no studio. Skip Flowise if people who want a hosted agent studio with a printed Cloud card (Dify, Langflow).
Best for
Dify Shipping a chatbot or workflow with a knowledge base
Flowise Wire tools to an agent on a node graph
Free plan
Dify No free plan
Flowise $0 · apache-2.0 community code. You bring Node ≥18/20, disk, and a model key
Lowest paid
Dify Cloud Team $1/mo
Flowise Not published by the vendor
Next step up
Dify Cloud Professional $590/mo
Flowise
Coding agent
Dify Agents and apps
Flowise Agentflow canvas
Runs where
Dify Local; you host it
Flowise Local or hosted
Watch out
Dify Self-host is not zero ops
Flowise The GitHub repo is archived
Last checked
Dify 2026-10-19 · dify.ai/pricing
Flowise 2026-10-21 · flowiseai.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Flowise if
developers who will run Node locally or in Docker and already have model keys.
Read the Flowise page