Dify hosting
A visual studio for building LLM apps, agents and RAG pipelines.
Dify hosting at AIHostBox means a dedicated, single-tenant Dify instance on our infrastructure: we install it, pin it to a reviewed release, put it behind TLS on your domain, back it up nightly and keep it patched. Plans start at $18.99 per month and the admin account, the data and any API keys are yours.
Dify is the closest open-source equivalent to a full LLM application platform: a visual workflow builder, a prompt IDE, a RAG pipeline with document ingestion and retrieval settings, agent tools, datasets, and an API for every app you publish. Teams use it to go from an idea to a working internal assistant without writing a service around it.
The stack is substantial — API, worker, web, Postgres, Redis and a vector store — so plans start at 8 GB. Every instance is single-tenant, which is also what the upstream licence requires: Dify’s additional conditions forbid offering it as a multi-tenant service and require the Dify branding to stay in place. We comply with both.
Dify hosting plans
Every plan is a dedicated single-tenant instance with NVMe storage, nightly off-box backups, TLS and managed patching. Quarterly, semi-annual and annual terms are discounted at checkout. Model tokens are not included — you bring your own key.
How we run Dify
The official Dify docker-compose set: api, worker and worker_beat, web, plugin_daemon, sandbox for code nodes, ssrf_proxy, nginx, Postgres, Redis and Weaviate as the default vector store.
What we configure for you
- SECRET_KEY generated per instance, CONSOLE_API_URL and APP_WEB_URL set to your domain
- INIT_PASSWORD so the admin setup page is not open to the internet
- VECTOR_STORE=weaviate by default, or qdrant / pgvector if you already run one with us
- MAIL_TYPE=smtp with working SMTP for invites and password resets
- STORAGE_TYPE left on local disk, or S3-compatible storage for large document sets
- Postgres and Redis passwords changed from the upstream difyai123456 defaults
Which plan fits
Pro (8 GB, 4 vCPU) runs the full stack with room for a few published apps and datasets of a few thousand documents. Max (12 GB, 6 vCPU) is for heavy ingestion, several concurrent workflow runs or a larger Weaviate index. Upstream’s 4 GB minimum leaves no headroom once plugins and indexing are busy.
The honest limits
Dify orchestrates models but runs none; generation comes from your provider key or a separate runtime plan. SSO, multi-workspace administration and rebranding belong to Dify Enterprise, not the open-source edition.
What people run Dify for
Internal assistant
Publish a support or HR assistant with its own knowledge base and API key.
RAG without plumbing
Ingestion, chunking, retrieval and reranking configured from the UI.
Prompt engineering as a team
Version and test prompts where non-developers can see them.
How Dify hosting compares
| Option | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Dify Professional (official) | $49/mo billed annually | Vendor-hosted workspace, 50 apps, usage limits by tier. |
| Elestio | from $30/mo | Managed Dify priced per vCPU and per GB. |
| AIHostBox | from $18.99/mo | Dedicated single-tenant instance, managed updates and backups. |
Prices verified September 2026 and may have changed since.
Licence and version policy
| Item | Position |
|---|---|
| Upstream licence | Apache-2.0 with additional conditions |
| Sold as managed hosting | Yes |
| Tenancy | Single tenant — one customer per instance |
| Patching | Critical advisories within 24 hours, high severity within 72 |
Our full position on licences, including the applications we decline to sell, is on the licensing page.
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