Dify vs AutoGen
Compare Dify and AutoGen on pricing, free tier, open source, API, self-host, verdict and momentum.
Both are agents tools. Dify is freemium (Cloud Sandbox free; self-host Community free under restricted license; cloud Professional/Team paid yearly) with an API, self-hostable, a free tier; AutoGen is free (open source (MIT)) with open source, an API, self-hostable and a free tier. The catalog stamp is ship for Dify and situational for AutoGen, last verified 2026-09-01 and 2026-08-24 respectively.
Auto-paired from catalog data — the verdicts are hand-set, the pairing is algorithmic.
Dify
Source-available LLM app platform with agent workflows and RAG.
AutoGen
Microsoft framework for building multi-agent LLM applications.
| field | Dify | AutoGen |
|---|---|---|
| pricing | freemium · Cloud Sandbox free; self-host Community free under restricted license; cloud Professional/Team paid yearly | free · open source (MIT) |
| free tier | yes | yes |
| open source | no | yes |
| api | yes | yes |
| self-host | yes | yes |
| verdict | ship | situational |
| momentum | blueshift | redshift |
| last verified | 2026-09-01 | 2026-08-24 |
| key limitation | The Dify license restricts multi-tenant use and frontend rebranding, so it is not OSI open source. | Now in maintenance mode; new users are directed to Microsoft Agent Framework. |
The call
Pick Dify — we ship it; AutoGen is situational for us.
Pick AutoGen if open source matters.
Dify sources
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