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Is Dify free and open source, and what is a good alternative?

Dify ships an open-source Community Edition you can self-host, plus paid Dify Cloud plans. Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System: agents, skills, company memory, and connectors in one git repo you own, each session on its own cloud computer.

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Dify and Dify alternatives, answered

  1. 01

    What is Dify?

    Dify is an open-source LLM app development platform. Dify's repository describes a visual canvas for AI workflows, RAG pipelines, agents, model management, and observability, deployable on Dify Cloud, in a VPC, or self-hosted.

  2. 02

    Is Dify open source?

    Yes. Dify describes itself as an open-source LLM app development platform and publishes a Community Edition you can run yourself. See Dify's repository.

  3. 03

    Is Dify free?

    Dify keeps a self-hosted Community Edition and a paid Dify Cloud. Dify's pricing page lists the Professional plan at $590 per workspace per year, with message-credit, app, and knowledge limits (checked October 2026).

  4. 04

    Can I self-host Dify?

    Yes. Dify's Community Edition runs through Docker Compose from the dify/docker directory, on a machine with at least 2 CPU cores and 4 GiB of RAM and Docker Compose v2.24.0 or later.

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    What is a good Dify alternative?

    Kortix, the open-source AI Operating System. Where Dify builds apps and workflows on a canvas, Kortix runs a workforce of agents on real cloud computers, with the configuration in one git repo you own.

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    Is Kortix free?

    Self-host is free. Free is $0 with 200 credits per month and 1 project, and the team plan is $40 per seat per month with 2,500 credits per month per seat, pooled.

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    Can I self-host Kortix?

    Yes. The kortix self-host commands install the full platform as one Docker Compose stack on a server you own, and sessions run on a cloud sandbox provider you choose. See the self-hosting docs.

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    How is Kortix different from Dify?

    Dify is a canvas for building LLM apps and RAG pipelines. Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System: agents, skills, company memory, and connectors live in one git repo you own, each session runs on its own cloud computer, and work lands through a change request a person approves.

Which Dify alternative fits a team that owns its stack

Kortix, the open-source AI Operating System, is the Dify alternative for teams that need agents doing finished work. Your agents, their skills, your company memory, and every connector live in one git repo you own, and each session runs on its own cloud computer. You reach it from the web app, from Slack or Microsoft Teams, or from the CLI, and any model provider works with your own keys.

Two things change when a canvas becomes an operating system:

  • The unit of work. Dify builds and publishes apps and workflows; Kortix runs agents that return finished work, such as decks, reports, code, and replies, and that take real actions in your tools.
  • The configuration. In Kortix, agents, skills, memory, and connectors are files in the git repo, versioned and reviewed like code, so the setup is something you own and can audit.

You can be running in a minute:

sh
curl -fsSL https://kortix.com/install | bashkortix initkortix ship

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