Dify
Open-source AI workflow platform with 131,000 GitHub stars and its own orchestration runtime.
Dify is profiled here as a Prompt Engineering tool for engineering teams. Read about features, pricing, and how it compares to related options in the tools directory.
Description
Short Intro: Dify is an open-source LLM application platform built by LangGenius, Inc., founded in 2023 by Luyu Zhang and co-founders including Junchen Yan, all former Tencent Cloud engineers. LangGenius is a US Delaware corporation with no Tencent ownership. In March 2026, the company raised $30M at a $180M valuation from HSG, Mizuho Financial Group, and Alibaba Cloud, among others. With 131,000 GitHub stars and deployments on 1.4 million machines across 175 countries, Dify is the highest-starred AI developer platform in the visual LLM workflow category, running production workloads for enterprise customers including Maersk, Novartis, Volvo, and ThermoFisher.
Key Capabilities:
Visual drag-and-drop workflow builder with its own Beehive orchestration runtime, replacing LangChain as the core execution layer
RAG pipeline builder covering document loading, chunking, embeddings, vector store, and retrieval as visual nodes
Multi-agent orchestration with MCP server deployment turning any workflow into a tool for Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients
Plugin marketplace with 100+ integrations including Slack, Discord, Telegram, and Feishu
100+ LLM support across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Cohere, and local models via Ollama
Production observability with tracing, logging, and analytics for deployed AI applications
Self-hosted deployment for data sovereignty, available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace as Dify Enterprise
Localized into 14+ languages including Japanese, Korean, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
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- Langfuse
Open-source LLM engineering platform for tracing, evaluation, and prompt management.
- PromptForge
Prompt engineering workbench for crafting and evaluating LLM prompts.