Automation & agent frameworks Dify
Is Dify safe?
Short answer: Caution. StackGrade's weekly scan of langgenius/dify gives it a Caution label for 1 critical-severity known vulnerability in runtime dependencies (OSV). It does list 7 high-severity advisories in runtime dependencies, which don't change the label. Critical advisories are counted once per package; a known issue in a locked package version does not prove Dify is exploitable in your setup. Automated scan of commit e590877 on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit.
Updated : the last week its score, rank or safety result changed.
Platform for agentic workflows and RAG pipelines, self-hosted or cloud.
- 160,191 stars
- pushed 2 Nov
- modified Apache-2.0
- Python
#20of 52 overall#4in Automation & agent frameworks▼ 5 vs Week 44
- Maintenance 30%45
- Adoption 30%84
- Docs 20%29
- Community 20%–
Score over the last 4 weeks: 62, 62, 61, 56.
1 critical-severity known vulnerability in runtime dependencies (OSV).
How this score works
Each part is a percentile among all 52 tracked tools, so 50 is average for this list. Community is not measured yet; the score uses the other 80%.
- Maintenance: Last push 2 Nov 2026. Last 10 GitHub releases within 177 days (about 1.5 per 30 days), latest release 23 Oct 2026. Issue close time: fewer than 5 closed issues, so not used.
- Adoption: 160,191 stars (70%), 25,327 forks (30%).
- Docs: README 12,007 characters, 12 headings, 1 code blocks, install section: yes.
#4 of 14 in Automation & agent frameworks
Ranked by score. The yellow row is this tool.
- 1n8n#3 overall70Caution
- 2AutoGPT#14 overall62Caution
- 3CrewAI#18 overall57Caution
- 4Dify#20 overall56Caution
- 5LangChain#23 overall54Caution
- 6Pydantic AI#31 overall46Caution
Show the other 8
- 7Mastra#33 overall44No issues found
- 8LangGraph#34 overall44No issues found
- 9Agent Development Kit (ADK, Python)#36 overall43Caution
- 10OpenBot#39 overall41Caution
- 11AutoGen#41 overall40Caution
- 12OpenAI Agents SDK (Python)#42 overall39Caution
- 13smolagents#47 overall30No dependencies scanned
- 14artemis#50 overall25Caution
Safety scan, 2 Nov 2026
Automated scan of commit e590877, 14,686 files. Not a manual audit.
Caution
- 1Critical dependency advisories7 high, 6 medium, 2 low. OSV, runtime dependencies only.
- 1Install hooksnpm scripts that run on install; none downloads remote content.
- 0Remote-code patternsFor example eval(fetch(…)).
- 207Agent files checked0 phrases flagged for review.
- 5curl | sh installersIn docs or program code. Information only.
Why this label?
Why this label:
- 1 critical-severity known vulnerability in runtime dependencies (OSV)
Known vulnerabilities in runtime dependencies (OSV): 1 critical, 7 high, 6 medium, 2 low, 2 unrated
chromadb@0.5.20 (PYSEC-2026-3814) in api/uv.lock
Also found (informational, does not change the label):
- 7 high-severity known vulnerabilities in runtime dependencies (OSV)
- 1 npm install hook, none downloading remote content
- Program code runs a curl|sh style installer (3 occurrences, e.g. cli/scripts/install-cli.sh)
- Documents curl|sh style installer (2 occurrences, e.g. cli/README.md)
Notes:
- Telemetry/analytics references in code: telemetry, sentry_sdk, amplitude
Automated scan of commit e590877 on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit. 14,686 files checked. What we check
Repo activity
From the GitHub API, fetched 2 Nov 2026.
- 6Releases, 90 daysLatest 1.18.0, 23 Oct
- –Median issue closeFewer than 5 closed issues
- 160kStars+643 since 26 Oct
- 25.3kForks1,210 open issues
- 2023Repo created12 Apr 2023
1 release in the last 30 days (GitHub releases feed, last 10 entries):
Questions about Dify
Answers use this week's StackGrade data.
Is Dify safe to use?
Caution. StackGrade's weekly scan of langgenius/dify gives it a Caution label for 1 critical-severity known vulnerability in runtime dependencies (OSV). It does list 7 high-severity advisories in runtime dependencies, which don't change the label. Critical advisories are counted once per package; a known issue in a locked package version does not prove Dify is exploitable in your setup. Automated scan of commit e590877 on 2 Nov 2026, not a manual audit.
How does StackGrade score Dify?
Dify scores 56 out of 100 in Week 45: #20 of 52 tracked tools overall and #4 in Automation & agent frameworks. The score combines maintenance (45), adoption (84) and docs (29) as percentiles among all 52 tracked tools; community (20% weight) is not measured yet, so the score uses the other 80%. It is not a hands-on test and it is separate from the safety label.
What are the alternatives to Dify?
What licence does Dify use?
The licence listed for langgenius/dify is modified Apache-2.0. Read the licence text before commercial use.
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All facts and sources
- Type
- AI tool
- License
- Dify Open Source License (modified Apache-2.0)
- Language
- Python
- Created
- 12 Apr 2023
- Owner
- langgenius (Organization)
- Forks
- 25,327
- Homepage
- dify.ai
GitHub description: “Build Agentic workflows, RAG pipelines, with rich AI model and tool support on one collaborative workspace. Deploy on cloud, VPC, or self-hosted, so teams move from prototype to production without rebuilding the stack.”
Sources: github.com/langgenius/dify, api.github.com/repos/langgenius/dify, raw.githubusercontent.com/langgenius/dify/main/README.md. Fetched 2 Nov 2026.
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