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 LlamaIndex
Our take
Pick Dify if product and applied-AI teams who want a visual RAG/agent studio and may later self-host. Pick LlamaIndex if builders wiring RAG or document extraction who will use the MIT library and/or LlamaParse credits. Skip Dify if someone who only wants ChatGPT, or an engineer who prefers a code-first graph (LangChain) with no studio. Skip LlamaIndex if people who only want a visual agent canvas (Langflow) or
Best for
Dify Shipping a chatbot or workflow with a knowledge base
LlamaIndex Connect an LLM to your documents
Free plan
Dify No free plan
LlamaIndex $0 · mIT. You bring the model
Lowest paid
Dify Cloud Team $1/mo
LlamaIndex Credit rate $1.25
Next step up
Dify Cloud Professional $590/mo
LlamaIndex Starter $50/mo
Coding agent
Dify Agents and apps
LlamaIndex Agents builder
Runs where
Dify Local; you host it
LlamaIndex Local or hosted
Watch out
Dify Self-host is not zero ops
LlamaIndex LlamaParse is not MIT
Last checked
Dify 2026-10-19 · dify.ai/pricing
LlamaIndex 2026-10-19 · llamaindex.ai/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick LlamaIndex if
builders wiring RAG or document extraction who will use the MIT library and/or LlamaParse credits.
Read the LlamaIndex page