Dify vs n8n
Relationship
n8n's own comparison page sets n8n against Dify for building AI agents.
2 shared capabilities — Across all their products, both list agent orchestration and workflow automation.
Ludbee capability tags · every product each company sellsShared product type — Both ship platform.
Ludbee product recordsSourced competitor — “n8n vs. Dify: Which is Right for You?”
n8n.io · checked 2026-10-13Build and run AI agents — Rivals on this job — Create agents that plan multi-step work across tools and data, then deploy, govern and watch them in production.
Ludbee needs vocabulary · the scope on the sourced edgeAligned comparison
Capability overlap
Shared · 2
Not verified for n8n · 1
Recorded for Dify. n8n’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.
n8n has no capability Dify lacks, among the 2 recorded here.
Products, side by side
Hand-checked pairing
Dify
Platform
Visual builder for agentic workflows, RAG pipelines and model orchestration in one collaborative workspace, run as a managed cloud service, self-hosted under a modified Apache 2.0 licence, or deployed in a customer's own VPC.
n8n
Platform
Hosted n8n: workflows that wire applications and LLM steps together on a trigger, billed by how many times they run rather than by how many steps each one has. The same engine is available as a self-hosted Community Edition.
No counterpart
n8n sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Dify yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.
Application
Builds n8n workflows from a plain-language description, then runs and self-repairs them.
AI agent
n8n Assistant plans, builds, and runs workflows from natural-language instructions.