Dify

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Build and deploy AI agents and RAG pipelines visually

Dify is where a prompt experiment becomes something a team can operate. Workflows are assembled on a canvas, datasets are indexed and versioned, and every deployment gets an API endpoint with logging and cost tracking attached.

The visual layer is what makes it useful across a company: product and support people can adjust a flow without touching the codebase that consumes it.

Decisive facts

Visual builder for agent and RAG workflows
Dataset ingestion, chunking, and retrieval tuning in the UI
Hundreds of model providers with per-node model selection
Observability with per-request traces and cost accounting
Self-hostable with Docker Compose

AI Agent Platforms Workflow Automation self-hosted python typescript rag agents llmops

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