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Dify vs Vectara Platform

Dify or Vectara Platform? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.

In short

  • Both: Choice of models, Self-hosted, API, Builds agents and workflows, Search over your data, Traces and evaluates
  • Only Vectara Platform states: Runs models for you

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.

About Dify

Vectara Platform

Enterprise platform for building, deploying, and governing AI agents over business data.

Plans

30 Day Free Trial

Free

  • 30 days to try Vectara
  • 10,000 credits included
  • All features included for 30 days

SaaS

  • Starting at $100K/ year
  • 1 SaaS Deployment
  • 10,000,000 credits/year included with base platform package purchase

VPC

  • Starting at $250K/ year
  • 1 VPC Deployment (Any VPC)
  • 100,000,000 credits/year included with base platform package purchase

On-prem

  • Starting at $500K/ year
  • 1 On-Premise Deployment
  • 100,000,000 credits/year included with base platform package purchase

Prices checked 2026-09-24 by web search.

Capabilities

  • Choice of models — “Vectara lets you apply the retrieval LLM that best fits your use case.” source
  • Self-hosted — “Vectara is available as a service on-premises, within your VPC, or via SaaS.” source
  • API — “One easy-to-use API to enable 100s of use cases” source
  • Runs models for you — “Vectara's own RAG-optimized Generative LLM” source
  • Builds agents and workflows — “Vectara provides the industry's highest accuracy and lowest hallucination rates.” source
  • Search over your data — “Vectara employs agentic extraction from documents, neural and lexical search, knowledge re-ranking, and customized generation.” source
  • Traces and evaluates — “Vectara flips the script, providing granular observability and proactive Guardian Agents.” source

Latest updates

About Vectara Platform