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 LangChain
Our take
Pick Dify if product and applied-AI teams who want a visual RAG/agent studio and may later self-host. Pick LangChain if engineers building agents in Python or JS who will read traces when something breaks. Skip Dify if someone who only wants ChatGPT, or an engineer who prefers a code-first graph (LangChain) with no studio. Skip LangChain if no-code ops teams (Zapier / Make) or people who only want a visual canvas
Best for
Dify Shipping a chatbot or workflow with a knowledge base
LangChain Engineers building agents in Python or JS who will read traces when something breaks
Free plan
Dify No free plan
LangChain $0 · langChain / LangGraph: no license fee. You pay model providers
Lowest paid
Dify Cloud Team $1/mo
LangChain LangSmith Plus $39/mo
Next step up
Dify Cloud Professional $590/mo
LangChain
Coding agent
Dify Agents and apps
LangChain OSS libraries
Runs where
Dify Local; you host it
LangChain Hosted
Watch out
Dify Self-host is not zero ops
LangChain OSS is not a studio
Last checked
Dify 2026-10-19 · dify.ai/pricing
LangChain 2026-10-19 · langchain.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick LangChain if
engineers building agents in Python or JS who will read traces when something breaks.
Read the LangChain page