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Dify vs n8n
Dify or n8n? 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
- Only n8n states: Runs commands, Command line
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.
n8n
n8n connects apps, APIs, data, and AI models in visual workflows that technical teams can inspect, customize, and run.
Plans
Starter
- $20/mo, billed annually
- 1 shared project
- 5 concurrent executions
- Unlimited users
- 2,300 AI credits/month
- Forum support
Pro
- $50/mo, billed annually
- 3 shared projects
- 20 concurrent executions
- 7 days of insights
- Up to 13,700 AI credits/month
- Admin roles
- Global variables
Business
- $800/mo, billed annually
- 6 shared projects
- SSO, SAML and LDAP
- 30 days of insights
- AI Assistant (preview)
- Different environments
- Version control using Git
Enterprise
Price on request
- Unlimited shared projects
- 200+ concurrent executions
- 365 days of insights
- External secret store integration
- Log streaming
- Extended data retention
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Runs commands — “Run bash scripts” source
- Command line — “Control n8n via CLI” source
- Choice of models — “You pick the model, and you bound what it is allowed to touch before it runs.” source
- Self-hosted — “Go fully on-premise with Docker or K8s in minutes.” source
- API — “Control n8n via API” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Put an agent inside a workflow, or let it run on its own.” source
- Search over your data — “Handle multi-agent setups and RAG systems.” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Every step of your agents' reasoning, traceable on the canvas.” source
Security
- SOC 2 — “Our SOC 2 report is available to enterprise customers.” source
- GDPR — “For more details about privacy, security and how we comply with GDPR at n8n, please visit our docs .” source
- Data kept in the EU — “The physical hardware powering n8n, and the data stored by the platform, is currently hosted in the European Union.” source
Latest updates
- stable (2.40.6)
- n8n@2.41.2 (2.41.2)
Instance reports are authenticated with the license certificate.
- n8n@2.40.6 (2.40.6)
Instance reports are authenticated with the license certificate.