What is Dify?
Dify is an open-source platform for building AI applications without writing a framework yourself: visual workflows, agents with tools, retrieval over your own documents (RAG), prompt management and a ready-made chat frontend. It's become the default way teams prototype and ship LLM apps.
The hosted version meters what you build — message credits, team seats, app limits. Self-hosted Dify removes the meters: unlimited apps, unlimited teammates, your own model API keys, and every document you index stays in your own database instead of a vendor's.
On livemy.app you pick the Dify template, click deploy, and the studio is live with SSL in about two minutes. Add a model provider key, and you're building agents on infrastructure you control — at a price that doesn't move with your usage.
Same app, no meter running
These tools are free and open source. What you normally pay for is someone else's server — and their pricing page.
Three steps, about two minutes
Everything the app needs to stay up
Self-hosting Dify, answered
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Build AI agents and LLM apps visually.



