Tools
Dify vs Haystack
Dify or Haystack? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In inglese
In short
- Both: Choice of models, Self-hosted, API, Builds agents and workflows, Search over your data, Traces and evaluates
Dify
Dify lets teams build, test, deploy, and monitor AI apps, agents, workflows, and RAG pipelines in the cloud or on private infrastructure.
Plans
Sandbox
Free
- 200 message credits
- 1 Team Workspace
- 1 Team Member
- 5 Apps
- 50 Knowledge Documents
- 50MB Knowledge Data Storage
Professional
- $590 per workspace / year
- 5,000 message credits / month
- 1 Team Workspace
- 3 Team Members
- 50 Apps
- 500 Knowledge Documents
- 5GB Knowledge Data Storage
Enterprise
Price on request
- Enterprise-grade Scalable Deployment Solutions
- Commercial License Authorization
- Multiple Workspaces & Enterprise Management
- SSO
- Advanced Security & Controls
- Professional Technical Support
Prices checked 2026-09-25 by web search.
Capabilities
- Choice of models — “Credits are provided to help you easily try out different models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, Tongyi in Dify.” source
- Self-hosted — “Self-host or run in your VPC.” source
- API — “Publish Dify apps as hosted experiences, API endpoints, embeds, or MCP-compatible tools.” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Build an agent by chatting or configuring it manually.” source
- Search over your data — “Prepare searchable knowledge bases” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Use logs, feedback, annotations, latency, and usage data to understand what happened and improve the app over time.” source
Latest updates
- v1.17.0 (v1.17.0)
Adds an E2B sandbox backend, build-time home snapshots, and skill management.
- v1.16.0 (v1.16.0)
Launches Dify Agent (Beta), with a UI builder for agents that run in a Linux sandbox.
Haystack
Open-source Python framework for building modular AI agents, RAG systems, search, and other LLM applications.
Plans
Studio
Free
- 1 workspace
- 1 user
- 100 pipeline hours
- 50 files (max 10MB per file)
- 2 development pipelines
- Cloud deployment; Community support on Discord
Enterprise
Price on request
- Unlimited workspaces, users, files (no size limit)
- Unlimited development and production (high availability) pipelines
- Cloud or custom deployment
- Dedicated account team, solution engineers and private Slack channel
- SSO, Role-Based Access Control
- Custom package
Prices checked 2026-09-25 by web search.
Capabilities
- Choice of models — “Swap models and components without rewriting your system” source
- Self-hosted — “Run Haystack in your own environment, get dedicated support or extend it with a cloud or self-hosted platform to test, deploy, and operate pipelines at scale.” source
- API — “Serve pipelines as REST APIs or MCP servers with Hayhooks.” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Haystack is an open-source AI orchestration framework built by deepset , enabling Python developers to build production-ready AI agents, multimodal applications, and advanced RAG systems .” source
- Search over your data — “Build highly performant RAG pipelines with a multitude of retrieval and generation strategies.” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Use tracing , logging , and evaluation tools to monitor retrieval quality, latency, tool usage, and outputs and iteratively refine your system.” source
Latest updates
- Haystack 3.2.0 (3.2.0)
Release notes for Haystack 3.2.0
- Haystack 3.1.1 (3.1.1)
Release notes for Haystack 3.1.1
- Haystack 3.1.0 (3.1.0)
Release notes for Haystack 3.1.0