Drag a workflow together, point it at a local model, and you have an agent with a UI in an afternoon. The self-host path means the whole thing can run on hardware you already own.
The licence is Apache-2.0 with extra conditions, not plain Apache. Read them before you resell anything built on it.
| What you get free | Free and self-hostable with Docker under the Dify Open Source License; a capped hosted free plan also exists |
| Where the limit sits | Licence is 'based on Apache 2.0 with additional conditions' — not plain Apache |
| Credit card to start | No |
| Pricing type | Open source |
| Last checked | 2026-07-30 · source |
| Run it yourself | Yes — Dify Open Source License (Apache-2.0 + conditions) · repo |
| Platforms | web, linux, api |
| Category | Agents & automation · Code & dev · Self-hosted / local |
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