Dynamiq vs Dify

Dify is a visual platform for agentic workflows and RAG, source-available with a multi-tenant hosting restriction. Dynamiq is a governed platform for chat, voice and workflow agents, with an Apache-2.0 SDK.

By Pawel Sobczak, Product and partnerships Updated September 29, 2026

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In short

Dify is a visual platform for agentic workflows, chat apps and RAG pipelines with a large plugin marketplace, available as Dify Cloud, as a self-hosted Community Edition under a modified Apache License that bars multi-tenant hosting without permission, or as Dify Enterprise in a VPC, on-prem or air-gapped. Dynamiq is a governed platform for chat, voice and workflow agents with an unrestricted Apache-2.0 SDK, built-in evals and observability, and forward-deployed engineers. Teams that want a fast, community-backed builder for LLM apps and RAG fit Dify; teams that need voice agents, built-in evals, an unrestricted open-source engine or a deployment team fit Dynamiq.

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Facts checked September 29, 2026. Sources below.

Dimension	Dynamiq	Dify
Best for	Enterprises in regulated industries that need chat, voice and workflow agents on one governed stack, deployed inside their own environment.	Teams that want a visual platform for agentic workflows, chat apps and RAG pipelines, from a free cloud Sandbox or self-hosted Community Edition up to Enterprise deployments in a VPC or on-prem.
Deployment options	Dynamiq Cloud, or self-hosted on your AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift or any Kubernetes 1.32+ cluster, or on-prem. Fully isolated or air-gapped setups are delivered with our engineers.	Dify Cloud (Sandbox, Professional and Team), a self-hosted Community Edition with Docker, Dify Enterprise in your VPC, on-prem or air-gapped with Helm and Terraform, and Dify Premium as an AWS machine image.
Self-hosted or on-prem	Yes. Self-hosted on your cloud or on-prem, or Dynamiq Cloud; both run the same engine.	Yes. The Community Edition self-hosts with Docker, and Dify Enterprise deploys in your VPC, on-prem or in an air-gapped network.
License and source code	The Python SDK is open source under Apache-2.0 (github.com/dynamiq-ai/dynamiq), and the visual canvas runs on the same engine. The platform around it is not open source.	Source-available under a modified Apache License 2.0: without Dify's written authorization you may not operate a multi-tenant environment (one tenant per workspace), and you may not remove Dify's logo or copyright from the console or apps, per its GitHub license file.
Model choice	29 model providers in the SDK, the most-used models behind one OpenAI-compatible AI Gateway endpoint, plus open models served on vLLM and LoRA fine-tuning.	Hundreds of proprietary and open-source models from dozens of providers and self-hosted solutions, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and any OpenAI-compatible model, installed as plugins from its marketplace.
Agent types (chat, voice, workflow)	Chat, inbound voice and workflow agents on one engine. AI Coworker works with its own cloud sandbox computer, in the browser, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Telegram; Voice Agents answer inbound calls; Agent Builder runs workflow agents.	Agentic workflows, chat apps and agents, including agents you build by chatting and agents with their own sandbox. Speech-to-text and text-to-speech are app features, but no voice agent product is described.
Developer surface	Agent Builder pairs a visual canvas with the open-source Python SDK on one engine, with Choice and rules nodes, workflows generated from a prompt, and versions with rollback.	A visual builder with Python or JavaScript code nodes, apps exported as a YAML DSL, the difyctl CLI, and publishing as hosted apps, API endpoints, embeds or MCP servers; Dify also connects to MCP servers as a client.
Governance (guardrails, approvals, SSO)	Guardrails that detect PII and prompt injection, policy detection, validators and approvals with editable fields on any tool step, on every plan; SSO (OIDC with Okta and Microsoft Entra ID) on Enterprise.	A Human Input node pauses workflows for a person's decision, and a moderation extension reviews inputs and outputs; Dify Enterprise adds SSO over SAML or OIDC, SCIM, workflow-level RBAC, audit logs streamed to a SIEM and PII-redacted prompt history.
Evals and observability	Evals with datasets built from traces, LLM-as-a-judge, predefined and code metrics, and real-time evaluations on live deployments; traces with cost and latency per node, monitoring, and an AI agent that surfaces issues from production traces.	Logs, feedback, annotations, latency and token usage in its dashboard, plus tracing through integrations such as LangSmith, Langfuse, Opik, W&B Weave, Arize and Phoenix; no built-in evaluation suite is described on the pages checked.
Integrations	2,100+ app integrations and 11,800+ actions, plus MCP servers and per-user connections.	A marketplace of model providers, tools, data sources, agent strategies and MCP integrations, with 928 listed plugins in a July 2026 snapshot, per Dify's blog; Knowledge Pipelines turn files, websites and drives into knowledge bases.
Compliance	SOC 2 and CASA Tier 2, with a BAA for HIPAA workloads and a DPA under GDPR.	SOC 2 and ISO 27001, with a GDPR badge, per Dify's homepage; HIPAA is not stated on the pages checked.
Delivery help (engineers)	Forward-deployed engineers run a bootcamp in your environment, ship the first production agent with your team, then hand over.	Dify Enterprise includes a named customer success manager, a shared Slack channel and a one-hour response on severity-one issues; no engineering deployment engagement is described.
Pricing model	Free to start ($0), and Enterprise with custom pricing. Available on AWS Marketplace, Microsoft Azure Marketplace and IBM Marketplace.	Cloud: a free Sandbox (200 message credits), Professional at $590 per workspace a year, Team at $1,590 per workspace a year, and custom Enterprise; the Community Edition is free to self-host, per Dify's pricing page.

Best for

DynamiqEnterprises in regulated industries that need chat, voice and workflow agents on one governed stack, deployed inside their own environment.

DifyTeams that want a visual platform for agentic workflows, chat apps and RAG pipelines, from a free cloud Sandbox or self-hosted Community Edition up to Enterprise deployments in a VPC or on-prem.

Deployment options

DynamiqDynamiq Cloud, or self-hosted on your AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift or any Kubernetes 1.32+ cluster, or on-prem. Fully isolated or air-gapped setups are delivered with our engineers.

DifyDify Cloud (Sandbox, Professional and Team), a self-hosted Community Edition with Docker, Dify Enterprise in your VPC, on-prem or air-gapped with Helm and Terraform, and Dify Premium as an AWS machine image.

Self-hosted or on-prem

DynamiqYes. Self-hosted on your cloud or on-prem, or Dynamiq Cloud; both run the same engine.

DifyYes. The Community Edition self-hosts with Docker, and Dify Enterprise deploys in your VPC, on-prem or in an air-gapped network.

License and source code

DynamiqThe Python SDK is open source under Apache-2.0 (github.com/dynamiq-ai/dynamiq), and the visual canvas runs on the same engine. The platform around it is not open source.

DifySource-available under a modified Apache License 2.0: without Dify's written authorization you may not operate a multi-tenant environment (one tenant per workspace), and you may not remove Dify's logo or copyright from the console or apps, per its GitHub license file.

Model choice

Dynamiq29 model providers in the SDK, the most-used models behind one OpenAI-compatible AI Gateway endpoint, plus open models served on vLLM and LoRA fine-tuning.

DifyHundreds of proprietary and open-source models from dozens of providers and self-hosted solutions, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and any OpenAI-compatible model, installed as plugins from its marketplace.

Agent types (chat, voice, workflow)

DynamiqChat, inbound voice and workflow agents on one engine. AI Coworker works with its own cloud sandbox computer, in the browser, Slack, Microsoft Teams and Telegram; Voice Agents answer inbound calls; Agent Builder runs workflow agents.

DifyAgentic workflows, chat apps and agents, including agents you build by chatting and agents with their own sandbox. Speech-to-text and text-to-speech are app features, but no voice agent product is described.

Developer surface

DynamiqAgent Builder pairs a visual canvas with the open-source Python SDK on one engine, with Choice and rules nodes, workflows generated from a prompt, and versions with rollback.

DifyA visual builder with Python or JavaScript code nodes, apps exported as a YAML DSL, the difyctl CLI, and publishing as hosted apps, API endpoints, embeds or MCP servers; Dify also connects to MCP servers as a client.

Governance (guardrails, approvals, SSO)

DynamiqGuardrails that detect PII and prompt injection, policy detection, validators and approvals with editable fields on any tool step, on every plan; SSO (OIDC with Okta and Microsoft Entra ID) on Enterprise.

DifyA Human Input node pauses workflows for a person's decision, and a moderation extension reviews inputs and outputs; Dify Enterprise adds SSO over SAML or OIDC, SCIM, workflow-level RBAC, audit logs streamed to a SIEM and PII-redacted prompt history.

Evals and observability

DynamiqEvals with datasets built from traces, LLM-as-a-judge, predefined and code metrics, and real-time evaluations on live deployments; traces with cost and latency per node, monitoring, and an AI agent that surfaces issues from production traces.

DifyLogs, feedback, annotations, latency and token usage in its dashboard, plus tracing through integrations such as LangSmith, Langfuse, Opik, W&B Weave, Arize and Phoenix; no built-in evaluation suite is described on the pages checked.

Integrations

Dynamiq2,100+ app integrations and 11,800+ actions, plus MCP servers and per-user connections.

DifyA marketplace of model providers, tools, data sources, agent strategies and MCP integrations, with 928 listed plugins in a July 2026 snapshot, per Dify's blog; Knowledge Pipelines turn files, websites and drives into knowledge bases.

Compliance

DynamiqSOC 2 and CASA Tier 2, with a BAA for HIPAA workloads and a DPA under GDPR.

DifySOC 2 and ISO 27001, with a GDPR badge, per Dify's homepage; HIPAA is not stated on the pages checked.

Delivery help (engineers)

DynamiqForward-deployed engineers run a bootcamp in your environment, ship the first production agent with your team, then hand over.

DifyDify Enterprise includes a named customer success manager, a shared Slack channel and a one-hour response on severity-one issues; no engineering deployment engagement is described.

Pricing model

DynamiqFree to start ($0), and Enterprise with custom pricing. Available on AWS Marketplace, Microsoft Azure Marketplace and IBM Marketplace.

DifyCloud: a free Sandbox (200 message credits), Professional at $590 per workspace a year, Team at $1,590 per workspace a year, and custom Enterprise; the Community Edition is free to self-host, per Dify's pricing page.

Choose Dynamiq when

The SDK is open source under Apache-2.0, with no added conditions on how you run it; the platform around it is commercial.
Voice Agents answer inbound calls on the same engine as chat and workflow agents, with per-turn latency measurement and LLM-judged simulations.
Built-in evals: datasets from traces, LLM-as-a-judge, predefined and code metrics, and real-time evaluations on live deployments, next to traces with cost and latency per node.
Forward-deployed engineers ship the first production agent with your team, then hand over. Your team keeps the code and the environment.

Choose Dify when

A free, self-serve start: a cloud Sandbox and a self-hosted Community Edition for prototyping LLM apps and RAG pipelines quickly.
A large marketplace of plugins for models, tools, data sources and MCP, and an active open-source community around one product.
Low-cost cloud tiers for small teams, with a path to Enterprise in a VPC, on-prem or air-gapped.

Moving from Dify

Dify apps and workflows export as a YAML DSL with their orchestration, node settings, prompts and model parameters, which gives a clear blueprint for rebuilding them as agents and workflows in Dynamiq's Agent Builder, on the canvas or in the Python SDK. Tools and MCP integrations reconnect as Dynamiq integrations or MCP servers, and knowledge bases are re-ingested into Dynamiq Knowledge. Third-party tool keys, which the DSL does not export, are reconnected once.

Questions and answers

Is Dify open source like Dynamiq's SDK?

Dify's Community Edition is source-available under a modified Apache License 2.0 that bars operating a multi-tenant environment without Dify's written authorization and requires keeping its logo and copyright, per its GitHub license file. Dynamiq's Python SDK is open source under Apache-2.0 with no added conditions; the Dynamiq platform is not open source.

Does Dify support voice agents?

Not as a product. Dify offers speech-to-text and text-to-speech as app features, but its site describes no voice agent product. Dynamiq includes Voice Agents for inbound calls on the same platform.

Does Dify have built-in evaluations?

Dify records logs, feedback, annotations and token usage, and connects to tracing tools such as LangSmith and Langfuse, but its pages describe no built-in evaluation suite. Dynamiq includes evals with LLM-as-a-judge and real-time evaluations on live deployments.

Is Dify free to use?

Yes, with a free cloud Sandbox and a free, self-hosted Community Edition, alongside paid Professional, Team and Enterprise plans, per Dify's pricing page. Dynamiq also offers a free plan to start, plus custom Enterprise pricing.

Does Dify support MCP?

Yes, in both directions: Dify apps publish as MCP servers, and Dify connects to external MCP servers as a client, per its docs. Dynamiq also supports MCP servers alongside 2,100+ app integrations.

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