Dify
Indicative from-price range
Indicative from-price range for self-hosting Dify on 1 server: about $24 to $112 per month (USD), as of 2026-10-19, for the reference workload (Peak active app users: 20; Daily workflow executions: 1000; Knowledge base data (GB): 10). From-price by provider, each the cheapest server in that provider's own shortlist: $24 on DigitalOcean (basic-2vcpu-4gb, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, fra1); $49 on Google Cloud (e2-standard-2, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, us-central1); $63 on Amazon Web Services (c9g.large, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, us-east-1); $64 on OVHcloud (rise-1, 6 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, eu-west); $66 on Microsoft Azure (D2as_v7, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, eastus); $66 on Hetzner (AX41, 6 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-central); $262 on Servers.com (dl-01, 8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-west).
Reference workload
- Peak active app users: 20
- Daily workflow executions: 1000
- Knowledge base data (GB): 10
Methodology
This range is generated automatically from public provider price lists. It has not been reviewed by a person, it is not a quote, and it may differ from the total the calculator chooses for your own workload with its AI step. Method: the calculator's offer shortlist for the reference workload (the same ranking it builds before the AI step, up to 12 offers across providers; 12 here) is priced at its monthly list price in USD. The low end is the cheapest of the per-provider from-prices below and the high end is the median server of the combined shortlist, each multiplied by 1, the smallest baseline topology (single-node). The from-price for each provider applies the same method to that provider's own shortlist (the calculator's ranking restricted to that provider), so it is the cheapest server that ranking offers there, not a recommendation. Prices are taken from the price snapshot dated 2026-10-19; prices quoted in EUR are converted with the ECB reference rate dated 2026-10-19. Servers with fewer than 2 vCPU or less than 4 GB RAM are not priced. Only server rental list prices for the product's own servers are counted: dependencies, licences, support, traffic charges, taxes and setup fees are not included.
Price sources
- Amazon Web Services: https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/us-east-1/index.json
- DigitalOcean: https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets
- Google Cloud: https://cloudbilling.googleapis.com/v1/services/6F81-5844-456A/skus
- Hetzner: https://www.hetzner.com/_resources/app/data/app/live_data_en_EUR.json
- Microsoft Azure: https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices
- OVHcloud: https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/order/catalog/public/eco?ovhSubsidiary=FR
- Servers.com: https://www.servers.com/products/scalable-bare-metal
Size Dify for your own workloadMarkdown versionFor AI agents (llms.txt)
Dify is an open-source platform for building generative AI applications and agents, combining a visual workflow builder, prompt orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and model management behind one backend and console. It supports self-hosting the full application stack via Docker Compose.
What gets deployed with it
- PostgreSQL HA Cluster — required Dify requires PostgreSQL for application metadata, user data, workflow execution history, and knowledge base indexing records.
- Redis Cluster — required Dify uses Redis for Celery task brokering, session caching, and rate limiting. Without Redis the worker queue and real-time features are unavailable.
Baseline topologies
| Topology | Minimum nodes | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| single-node | 1 | dify |
| app-plus-workers | 2 | dify-api, dify-worker |
What drives the cost
- Peak active app users
- Peak users simultaneously interacting with Dify apps and chatbots. Drives API server thread pool and web worker sizing.
- Daily workflow executions
- Approximate agentic workflow or pipeline executions per day. Drives Celery worker capacity and sandbox concurrency planning.
Where it runs
bare_metal, dedicated, cloud_vm
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