# dify vs Stack AI

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** dify

| Attribute | dify | Stack AI |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 67.9 (74% (medium)) | 52.4 (39% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 8 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 158,384 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Dify is a no-code platform that allows teams to build, test, and deploy AI-driven applications and workflows. It supports multiple deployment models including cloud hosting and self-hosted options, enabling organizations to create AI solutions that connect language models with data and tools. It is indexed under AI Tools.","source":"https://dify.ai/pricing","question":"What is dify?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"dify offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $590 per year. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://dify.ai/pricing","question":"Is dify free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"dify supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://dify.ai/pricing","question":"What platforms does dify support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. dify can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://dify.ai/pricing","question":"Can dify be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 7 integrations for dify, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, DeepSeek, Tongyi and MCP. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://dify.ai/pricing","question":"What does dify integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR for dify. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as dify not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://dify.ai","question":"What security certifications does dify have?","confidence":0.48},{"answer":"dify is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://dify.ai/pricing","question":"Where is dify available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"An enterprise-focused AI platform that enables teams to build, deploy, and govern AI agents across their organization. It supports multiple deployment models and integrates with hundreds of enterprise systems. It is indexed under AI Workflow Automation.","source":"https://www.stackai.com/pricing","question":"What is Stack AI?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Stack AI does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 2 plans (Free and Custom), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.stackai.com/pricing","question":"How much does Stack AI cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Stack AI. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.stackai.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does Stack AI support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Stack AI can be deployed cloud / SaaS and on-premise, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://www.stackai.com/pricing","question":"Can Stack AI be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 13 integrations for Stack AI, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Email, Google Drive, Notion, Salesforce, Asana and SharePoint, plus 5 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.stackai.com/pricing","question":"What does Stack AI integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Stack AI. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Stack AI not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.stackai.com/solutions/risk-compliance","question":"What security certifications does Stack AI have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Stack AI is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.stackai.com/pricing","question":"Where is Stack AI available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An open-source LLM application development platform that enables teams to build, test, and deploy AI-powered workflows, RAG pipelines, and autonomous agents using a visual interface, with support for multiple language models, enterprise security features, and flexible deployment options. | A no-code platform enabling enterprises to build, deploy, govern, and scale AI agents that automate workflows while maintaining security, compliance, and human oversight over critical decisions. |
| features.capabilities | `{"iso_27001":true,"soc2_type_ii":true,"pricing_model":"freemium_with_task_credits","builder_ui_architecture":"visual_node_canvas","custom_http_webhook_catch_and_triggering":true,"native_llm_nodes_anthropic_openai_gemini":true,"on_premise_self_hosted_deployment_option":true,"bring_your_own_key_byok_for_llm_inference":true,"sub_workflow_calling_and_reusable_templates":true,"human_in_the_loop_approval_steps_via_slack_email":true,"dynamic_conditional_routing_via_llm_classification":true,"unstructured_document_extraction_pdf_image_to_json":true}` | `{"iso_27001":true,"soc2_type_ii":true,"pricing_model":"freemium_with_task_credits","builder_ui_architecture":"visual_node_canvas","native_llm_nodes_anthropic_openai_gemini":true,"on_premise_self_hosted_deployment_option":true,"web_scraping_and_browser_automation_nodes":true,"sub_workflow_calling_and_reusable_templates":true,"human_in_the_loop_approval_steps_via_slack_email":true,"dynamic_conditional_routing_via_llm_classification":true,"unstructured_document_extraction_pdf_image_to_json":true}` |
| integrations.count | 9 | 300 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Gemini"},{"name":"xAI"},{"name":"DeepSeek"},{"name":"Tongyi"},{"name":"MCP"},{"name":"Google Gemini","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Alibaba Tongyi","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Search","native":true,"category":"search","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"DALL-E","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Stable Diffusion","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"WolframAlpha","native":true,"category":"tools","direction":"outbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"Google Drive"},{"name":"Notion"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"Asana"},{"name":"SharePoint"},{"name":"Chrome Extension"},{"name":"REST API"},{"name":"Deepgram","native":true,"category":"voice"},{"name":"Stable Diffusion","native":true,"category":"image"},{"name":"Groq","native":true,"category":"ai_inference"},{"name":"Anthropic","native":true,"category":"ai_models"},{"name":"Airtable","category":"database"},{"name":"Atlassian Jira","category":"project_management"},{"name":"AWS RDS","category":"database"},{"name":"AWS S3","category":"file_management"},{"name":"Snowflake","category":"database"},{"name":"OpenAI","category":"ai_models"},{"name":"Google Gemini","category":"ai_models"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock","category":"ai_models"},{"name":"Ahrefs","category":"analytics"},{"name":"Abstract API","category":"data_enrichment"},{"name":"15Five","category":"hr"},{"name":"Apollo","category":"crm"},{"name":"Ashby","category":"hr"},{"name":"AWS Athena","category":"analytics"},{"name":"Amazon Neptune","category":"database"}]` |
| language.primary | TypeScript | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Sandbox","summary":"Free","features":["5 Apps","50 Knowledge Documents","50MB Storage","30 Days Log History"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Free tier for exploring core features","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"apps":"5","storage_mb":"50","team_members":"1","message_credits":"200","knowledge_documents":"50","api_rate_limit_monthly":"5000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Professional","summary":"$590/workspace/year","features":["1 Team Workspace","50 Apps","Priority Document Processing","Unlimited Triggers per Workflow","Faster Workflow Execution","Unlimited Log History","No API Rate Limit"],"commitment":"annual","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":590,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For independent developers and small teams building production AI apps","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"apps":"50","storage_gb":"5","team_members":"3","knowledge_documents":"500","trigger_events_monthly":"20000","message_credits_monthly":"5000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$1590/year","features":["200 Apps","1000 Knowledge Documents","Unlimited Trigger Events","Top Priority Document Processing","Priority Workflow Execution"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":1590,"period":"year","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For medium-sized teams needing collaboration and higher throughput","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"apps":"200","storage_gb":"20","team_members":"50","knowledge_documents":"1000","message_credits_monthly":"10000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Enterprise-grade Scalable Deployment","Commercial License","Multiple Workspaces","SSO","Advanced Security & Controls","Negotiated SLAs"],"description":"For enterprises requiring advanced security, compliance, and dedicated support","contactSales":true},{"free":true,"name":"Community","summary":"Free","features":["All Core Features","Single Workspace","Open Source License"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For open-source projects and non-commercial developers","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Freemium: Sandbox and Community free. Professional from $590/year per workspace.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dify.ai/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-11T19:14:55.810Z","startingPrice":{"amount":590,"period":"year","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["year"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free plan with 500 runs/month, 2 projects, 1 team member","features":["500 runs per month","2 Projects","1 Seat","Community support on Discord","Agents","Inputs (Text, Image, Audio, Video)","Outputs (Logic, JavaScript)","Data Loaders (Web Scraping, File Upload, Google Drive, Notion)","Plugins (Browser Extension, Chrome Extension, REST API, Slack Bot)","Knowledge Bases (Document Upload, Document Readers for PDF, Word, PowerPoint)","Custom Domain","API Access","Analytics","Community Support"],"minSeats":1,"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"projects":"2","team_members":"1","runs_per_month":"500"}},{"free":false,"name":"Custom","summary":"Enterprise plan with dedicated infrastructure and support","features":["Custom number of runs","Unlimited projects","Custom number of seats","All features and data loaders","Dedicated infrastructure","Dedicated solution engineers","On-prem deployment","Virtual Private Cloud deployment","Access control","SSO (Single Sign-On)","SOC 2, HIPAA & GDPR compliance"],"description":"For teams who want a custom experience with advanced security and support","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"runs":"Custom","seats":"Custom","projects":"Unlimited"}}],"summary":"Free plan at $0/month with 500 runs per month; custom enterprise pricing available","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.stackai.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-10T09:16:33.718Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | no |
| pricing.model | freemium | quote |
| pricing.price_level | low | unknown |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":590,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| release.cadence_days | 13 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.17.1","date":"2026-09-10T10:04:06Z","type":"stable","version":"1.17.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.17.0","date":"2026-08-25T11:28:25Z","type":"stable","version":"1.17.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.16.1","date":"2026-07-28T03:43:51Z","type":"stable","version":"1.16.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.16.0","date":"2026-07-17T11:14:06Z","type":"stable","version":"1.16.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.16.0-rc1","date":"2026-07-09T14:06:30Z","type":"prerelease","version":"1.16.0-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.15.0","date":"2026-06-25T13:16:14Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.14.2","date":"2026-05-19T05:34:25Z","type":"stable","version":"1.14.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.14.1","date":"2026-05-12T08:19:23Z","type":"stable","version":"1.14.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.14.0","date":"2026-04-29T04:06:08Z","type":"stable","version":"1.14.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.13.3","date":"2026-03-27T08:46:46Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.13.2","date":"2026-03-18T14:20:55Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.13.1","date":"2026-03-17T10:43:40Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.14.0-rc1","date":"2026-02-14T09:28:47Z","type":"prerelease","version":"1.14.0-rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.13.0","date":"2026-02-11T09:24:39Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.12.1","date":"2026-02-04T12:15:15Z","type":"stable","version":"1.12.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.12.0","date":"2026-02-03T14:38:13Z","type":"stable","version":"1.12.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.11.4","date":"2026-01-15T07:15:40Z","type":"stable","version":"1.11.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.11.3","date":"2026-01-13T10:10:31Z","type":"stable","version":"1.11.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.11.2","date":"2025-12-25T08:40:33Z","type":"stable","version":"1.11.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/langgenius/dify/releases/tag/1.11.1","date":"2025-12-12T06:44:32Z","type":"stable","version":"1.11.1"}]` | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"}]` | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"},{"name":"GDPR","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | - | https://www.stackai.com/solutions/risk-compliance |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=dify-client&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (AI Workflow Automation)

| Capability | dify | Stack AI |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Builder UI architecture | Visual node canvas | Visual node canvas |
| Native LLM nodes anthropic openai gemini | ✓ | ✓ |
| Human in the loop approval steps via slack email | ✓ | ✓ |
| Unstructured document extraction PDF image to json | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dynamic conditional routing via LLM classification | ✓ | ✓ |
| Web scraping and browser automation nodes | - | ✓ |
| Bring your own key byok for LLM inference | ✓ | - |
| Custom HTTP webhook catch and triggering | ✓ | - |
| Sub workflow calling and reusable templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| On premise self hosted deployment option | ✓ | ✓ |
| SOC2 type ii | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISO 27001 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pricing model | Freemium with task credits | Freemium with task credits |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T17:44:39.581Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*