Dify

What Dify is

Dify is an application platform for teams building with models. It covers autonomous agents and retrieval pipelines, and unlike a simple playground it spans the whole lifecycle: developing workflows, deploying them and managing them once they are live, with both visual and developer-oriented paths.

What you can do with it

• Build retrieval pipelines over your own documents
• Develop autonomous agent workflows
• Deploy applications and keep them running
• Manage versions and monitoring
• Standardise how a team builds AI features

Who it is for

• AI application development teams
• Platform and engineering groups
• Organisations moving beyond prototypes

What to watch out for

• Self-hosting gives control but brings upgrades, backups and security patching onto your team
• Agents connected to tools need permission boundaries and logging
• Retrieval quality depends entirely on how your documents are prepared
• Usage of third-party models through the platform is still governed by those providers' terms