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dify

Production-ready platform for agentic workflow development.

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Teams building LLM apps with a visual builder, RAG pipelines, and agent workflows.

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You need deep programmatic control beyond what a visual platform allows.

About dify

Dify is an open-source LLM app development platform. Its intuitive interface combines AI workflow, RAG pipeline, agent capabilities, model management, observability features (including Opik, Langfuse, and Arize Phoenix) and more, letting you quickly go from prototype to production. Here's a list of the core features:

The easiest way to start the Dify server is through Docker Compose. Before running Dify with the following commands, make sure that Docker and Docker Compose are installed on your machine:

After running, you can access the Dify dashboard in your browser at http://localhost/install and start the initialization process.

From the project's README

dify is an open-source project written primarily in TypeScript, with 157k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.

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