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Dify vs Goose

Bottom line

Dify has a free plan plus paid upgrades, while Goose is free. Goose is open source and Dify is not.

Which one should you try?

Dify

Freemium

Best for Teams building RAG, chatbot or agent apps with a visual builder

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Goose

Free

Best for Developers who want an open-source agent for file and shell tasks

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Pricing, capabilities and platforms side by side. Prices are as of the "Pricing checked" date in the table.

Dify

Dify

LLM app platform with visual workflows, RAG, agents and app APIs. Free Sandbox and self-hosted Community edition.

Goose

Goose

Goose is an open-source agent with a desktop app, CLI and API, MCP extensions and reusable recipes. We ran it on three tasks with a local 3B model and with Claude Opus 5.5.

AttributeDifyGoose
PricingFreemiumFree
PriceFree Sandbox; Professional $590/workspace/year; Team $1,590/workspace/year (annual billing)—
Pricing checkedOct 17, 2026Not checked yet
Free trialNot statedNot stated
Open sourceNoYes
Has APIYesYes
Self-hosted optionYesYes
PlatformsDify Cloud (web); self-hosted with Docker Compose (min. 2 CPU cores, 4 GiB RAM)macOS, Linux, Windows
Released—2025
Pros
  • Workflows, RAG, agents and logging in one platform, with an API for every app.
  • Connects to many model providers, including any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
  • Free self-hosted Community edition via Docker Compose, alongside hosted Dify Cloud.
  • Passed 5 of 9 tasks with a 3B local model, the best of the three agents we tested.
  • Lowest token use with Claude Opus 5.5: about 7,800 tokens per task and $0.14 for all 9 runs.
  • A small fixed prompt (about 1,150 tokens), a tenth of Hermes Agent's.
  • Desktop app, CLI and API, with MCP extensions and recipes you can reuse.
Cons
  • The modified Apache 2.0 license requires authorization for multi-tenant services and bars removing frontend branding.
  • Multiple workspaces and commercial license authorization are Enterprise features.
  • Model API usage is billed by providers once included cloud credits run out.
  • With a 3B model it got only 1 of 3 report summaries and 1 of 3 CSV counts right, so plan on a bigger model for real work.
  • It contacts models.dev on every run (it kept working when we blocked it).
  • Running Goose locally doesn't keep your data local by itself; that depends on the model provider and extensions you connect.

Made up your mind?

Dify

Freemium

Best for Teams building RAG, chatbot or agent apps with a visual builder

Visit Dify See full review

Goose

Free

Best for Developers who want an open-source agent for file and shell tasks

Visit Goose See full review

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