Pick Dify if
product and applied-AI teams who want a visual RAG/agent studio and may later self-host.
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Our take
Pick Dify if product and applied-AI teams who want a visual RAG/agent studio and may later self-host. Pick n8n if technical ops, DevOps, and automation engineers who need to connect SaaS apps, internal APIs, and LLM tools — especially teams that want self-host / data residency. Skip Dify if someone who only wants ChatGPT, or an engineer who prefers a code-first graph (LangChain) with no studio. Skip n8n if someone
Best for
Dify Shipping a chatbot or workflow with a knowledge base
n8n Wiring tools together
Free plan
Dify No free plan
n8n $0 · no license fee. You run Docker or npm. Choose n8n describes a free Registered Community email unlock (folders, debug in editor, custom execution data). SSO, Git, environments, and similar extras need a paid Business/Enterprise license key
Lowest paid
Dify Cloud Team $1/mo
n8n Cloud Starter €20/mo yearly
Next step up
Dify Cloud Professional $590/mo
n8n Cloud Pro €50/mo yearly
Coding agent
Dify Agents and apps
n8n AI agents on the canvas
Runs where
Dify Local; you host it
n8n Local; you host it
Watch out
Dify Self-host is not zero ops
n8n You operate the graph
Last checked
Dify 2026-10-19 · dify.ai/pricing
n8n 2026-10-19 · n8n.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick n8n if
technical ops, DevOps, and automation engineers who need to connect SaaS apps, internal APIs, and LLM tools — especially teams that want self-host / data residency.
Read the n8n page