Comparison

Dify vs AI Workflow Automation Platform - n8n

Dify and AI Workflow Automation Platform - n8n both land on Depends.

Dify

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if you have technical staff to run and patch infrastructure and you need production agents or RAG with self-host/VPC control.

Depends

Confidence: Medium

Buy if you have engineers who can build automations and keep self-hosted instances patched.

Dify versus AI Workflow Automation Platform - n8n
Compare	Dify	AI Workflow Automation Platform - n8n
Verdict	Depends	Depends
Best for	Technical teams building production agents and RAG	Technical teams building AI agents
Who it's not for	Non-technical teams wanting plug-and-play automation	Non-technical teams wanting point-and-click automation
Privacy	Checkered: multiple public CVEs, one actively exploited, and cross-tenant research flaws; a Trust Center exists but self-hosters carry the patching burden.^⁵	Multiple maximum-severity vulnerabilities (2025-2026) and active criminal abuse . do not expose instances to the internet unpatched.¹⁴
Support quality	No usable support evidence in sources	No support evidence in sources
Public sentiment	Users praise the value and drag-and-drop build experience, but the independent review base is small and reliability concerns surface in evaluations.^⁴	Reddit and tutorial sources show technical users and solo admins adopting it for AI automation, while security press documents exploitation of public instances.
Biggest gotcha	Self-hosters must patch fast: repeated CVEs, including active exploitation^⁶	Unpatched instances get hijacked (Ni8mare, CVSS 10.0 RCE); patch immediately¹⁴