Quickstart for Dify

Dify is an open-source LLM app development platform. Its intuitive interface combines AI workflow, RAG pipeline, agent capabilities, model management, observability features, and more, letting you quickly go from prototype to production. It offers flexibility to build Chatbots and AI assistants, AI document generation, and connect to knowledge bases, all in one place.

Deploy Dify on Elestio

1. Open the Dify deployment page and sign in, or create an account.
2. Choose a cloud provider, a region and a data center. Pick the region closest to your users for the lowest latency.
3. Choose an instance size. Elestio only lists the sizes that can run Dify properly (at least 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM).
4. Choose your support plan and the maintenance window for system and software updates (times are in UTC).
5. Click Create Service. Dify is deployed and ready in a few minutes, and you receive an email with the access details.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the installation guide.

Access Dify

Open your service in the Elestio dashboard and go to the Overview tab. Click Display Admin UI to reveal the URL, username and password of your Dify instance.

If the password field is blank, Dify does not ship with a pre-created admin user: open the admin URL to start its setup. Software without a web interface, such as databases, is reached with the credentials and port listed in the same tab. See Admin UI and credentials.

Next steps

• Custom domain and SSL: point your own domain to Dify (guide).
• Backups: new services follow a 3-2-1 backup strategy by default (backups).
• Updates: manage the Dify version and update policy (software versions and updates).
• Learn Dify: read the official Dify documentation.