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Agno vs Dify

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by Agno

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Pricing: Free plan with a local control plane; Pro $150 a month billed monthly for 3 seats and 1 live connection; extra seat $30, connection $95; Enterprise by quote.

Agno is an open-source AI agent platform: a Python SDK, a self-hosted AgentOS runtime and a control plane, for engineering teams shipping agents to production.

17 /18 features Full profile

Dify

by LangGenius

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Pricing: Sandbox free; Professional $59 a workspace monthly or $590 a year; Team $159 monthly or $1,590 a year; Enterprise by quote.

Dify is an open-source AI agent builder where developers and teams design agentic workflows and RAG apps on a visual canvas, run in the cloud or self-hosted.

13 /18 features Full profile

Feature Comparison

AI Agent Builders features side-by-side

Feature	Agno 17/18 features	Dify 13/18 features
Visual agent workflow canvas Assemble the agent's steps on a canvas.	Yes	Yes
Custom tool and function definitions Give the agent your own callable functions.	Yes	Yes
Model provider choice per agent Point different agents at different models.	Yes	Yes
Retrieval-augmented knowledge bases Attach documents the agent retrieves from at run time.	Yes	Yes
Multi-agent handoff and delegation One agent passes work to another.	Yes	No
Conversation state and checkpointing Resume a long run instead of restarting it.	Yes	No
Structured output schema validation Force replies into a schema and reject the rest.	Yes	No
Input and output guardrails Filter unsafe or off-policy content on both sides.	Yes	Yes
Human-in-the-loop approval steps Pause a workflow for a person to approve.	Yes	Yes
Built-in execution tracing See every step, tool call and token inside the builder.	Yes	Yes
Prompt versioning in the builder Change a prompt without redeploying, and roll it back.	Yes	Yes
Agent evaluation and test suites Score an agent against fixed cases before release.	Yes	No
MCP server support Connect tools over the Model Context Protocol.	Yes	Yes
Webhook and event triggers Start an agent from an external event.	Yes	Yes
Code-first SDK Define the agent in code as well as in the interface.	Yes	No
Deploy an agent as an API endpoint Call the finished agent over HTTP.	Yes	Yes
Embeddable agent chat widget Drop the agent into a site or app as a chat surface.	No	Yes
Self-hosted agent runtime Run the built agents on your own infrastructure.	Yes	Yes
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Agno 17/18 features

Visual agent workflow canvas: Yes
Custom tool and function definitions: Yes
Model provider choice per agent: Yes
Retrieval-augmented knowledge bases: Yes
Multi-agent handoff and delegation: Yes
Conversation state and checkpointing: Yes
Structured output schema validation: Yes
Input and output guardrails: Yes
Human-in-the-loop approval steps: Yes
Built-in execution tracing: Yes
Prompt versioning in the builder: Yes
Agent evaluation and test suites: Yes
MCP server support: Yes
Webhook and event triggers: Yes
Code-first SDK: Yes
Deploy an agent as an API endpoint: Yes
Embeddable agent chat widget: No
Self-hosted agent runtime: Yes

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Dify 13/18 features

Visual agent workflow canvas: Yes
Custom tool and function definitions: Yes
Model provider choice per agent: Yes
Retrieval-augmented knowledge bases: Yes
Multi-agent handoff and delegation: No
Conversation state and checkpointing: No
Structured output schema validation: No
Input and output guardrails: Yes
Human-in-the-loop approval steps: Yes
Built-in execution tracing: Yes
Prompt versioning in the builder: Yes
Agent evaluation and test suites: No
MCP server support: Yes
Webhook and event triggers: Yes
Code-first SDK: No
Deploy an agent as an API endpoint: Yes
Embeddable agent chat widget: Yes
Self-hosted agent runtime: Yes

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Pricing

Agno

Free plan with a local control plane; Pro $150 a month billed monthly for 3 seats and 1 live connection; extra seat $30, connection $95; Enterprise by quote.

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Dify

Sandbox free; Professional $59 a workspace monthly or $590 a year; Team $159 monthly or $1,590 a year; Enterprise by quote.

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