We’re thrilled to announce the official launch of Dify v1.0.0, marking a major milestone for Dify as an AI application development platform. Notable highlights of this release include:
Version Upgrade: Both the Dify Community and Dify Cloud have been upgraded to v1.0.0.
Plugins Mechanism: A new plugin-based architecture with Models and Tools have been migrated to Plugins, introducing Agent Strategies, Extensions, and Bundles.
Workflow Enhancements: The Agent node has been added for intelligent orchestration and task execution in Workflows and Chatflows.
Open Ecosystem: The launch of Dify Marketplace is to foster a thriving plugin ecosystem with the community, partners, and enterprise developers.
New Paradigm in AI Application Development
With the rapid rise of generative AI, 2025 has ushered in significant innovations: reinforcement learning-based large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek-R1 excel in reasoning; OpenAI Operator is exploring real-world task automation via computer-driven models; and Deep Research outperforms intelligent asynchronous information processing. These advancements signal a shift in AI applications toward independently executing complex tasks.
Dify is committed to building the next-generation AI application platform, providing developers with four core capabilities:
Reasoning: Integration of enhanced reasoning models for superior problem-solving.
Action: Expanded AI ability to execute operations across both digital (e.g., executing Software operations) and physical environments (e.g., IoT device integration for smart homes and factories).
Dynamic Memory: Optimized RAG and Memory mechanisms for improved context understanding and long-term task execution.
Multimodal I/O: Processing diverse data modalities – text, images, video, and voice – for intuitive human-computer interactions.
Dify offers a flexible development framework, integrating increasingly powerful models, tools, decision logic, and databases to continuously enhance core AI capabilities, making development more efficient and intelligent while addressing complex demands.
Given AI’s diverse applications, no single platform can meet all needs, highlighting the importance of standardized interfaces and communication protocols. Dify aims to build an open, shared, and vibrant ecosystem, where components from Dify, community developers, enterprises, and third-party platforms seamlessly integrate, driving value and resource sharing. Ultimately, Dify hopes to accelerate AI deployment and drive innovation.
To achieve this, Dify has developed a plugin system and marketplace, a critical step toward building the ecosystem.
Plugin Architecture
Before v1.0.0, Dify faced a major challenge: models and tools were tightly integrated into the core platform, requiring changes to the core repository to add new features, which slowed development and hindered innovation. To solve this, we restructured Dify’s architecture and introduced a plugin system with four key advantages:
Modular Plugins: Plugins are decoupled from Dify’s core architecture, allowing models and tools to operate independently, enabling updates without a full platform upgrade. Users only need to update the relevant plugins, simplifying maintenance and ensuring compatibility. This also makes it easier to develop and share new tools, ensuring seamless integration.
Developer-Friendly Experience: Plugins follow standardized development protocols, offering a comprehensive tool chain with remote debugging, code samples, and API documentation to streamline development.
Hot-Swappable Design: The system supports dynamic plugin expansion and flexible usage, ensuring optimal platform performance.
Multiple Distribution Channels:
Dify Marketplace: A platform for aggregating, distributing, and managing plugins. Developers can submit their plugins for review and listing in Dify’s repository. The marketplace currently features 120+ plugins, including:
Models: OpenAI o1-series (o1, o3-mini, etc), Gemini 2.0-series, DeepSeek-R1 and its providers, including OpenRouter, Ollama, Azure AI Foundry, Nvidia Catalog, etc.
Tools: Perplexity, Discord, Slack, Firecrawl, Jina AI, Stability, ComfyUI, Telegraph, etc.
More plugins to explore at Dify Marketplace. Check how to publish your plugins to Dify Marketplace.
Community Sharing: Developers can freely share plugins on platforms like GitHub, fostering open-source collaboration and community-driven innovation.
Local Deployment: Users of Dify Community, Cloud, or Enterprise editions all can install plugins from local package files, share internal tools, accelerate deployment, and promote resource sharing within teams.
This modular approach significantly boosts Dify’s flexibility and scalability, fostering a more efficient and innovative ecosystem.
Intelligent Workflow
Developers can use Dify's Workflow and Chatflow nodes to flexibly orchestrate applications and solve complex problems. Dify focuses on optimizing node types and functionalities, with an emphasis on openness to better meet developers’ diverse needs. The v1.0.0 release introduces the Agent node, enhanced with reasoning strategies through Agent Strategy plugins, enabling intelligent, autonomous orchestration of workflows and chatflows.
Agent Node: The decision-making center in workflows and chatflows, dynamically calling models based on strategies for resource scheduling, state management, inference recording, and tool selection, boosting workflow efficiency and adaptability to various scenarios.
Agent Strategies: Decision logic is abstracted into plugins with pre-set strategies like ReAct and Function Calling, supporting reasoning strategies such as Chain-of-Thoughts and Tree-of-Thoughts. Development standards for these plugins are also provided, encouraging innovation and sharing.
Open Ecosystem
A diverse set of plugins will provide core capabilities for AI applications, connecting Dify to external platforms, supporting multimodal interactions, and driving value exchange.
Ecosystem Connectors: Extensions that enable seamless integration with external platforms (e.g., Slack), facilitating data and functionality interoperability to create an efficient interaction network. Plugin Endpoints also support reverse calls to Dify’s core capabilities, including models, tools, and workflow nodes.
Multimodal Interaction: Dify supports multimodal models and tool plugins for image generation, voice interaction, and more, expanding AI applications' ability to handle diverse input and output formats.
Value-Sharing Platform: Dify Marketplace serves as both a plugin distribution platform and a creative exchange hub. With 2.4 million Community Version downloads and an Enterprise Version serving numerous Fortune 500 companies, we aim to help enterprises find solutions while enabling developers to promote innovations and generate revenue.
To build a thriving plugin ecosystem, we are eager to connect with more partners to offer users more comprehensive and mature solutions. For the v1.0.0 release, our initial partners include OpenRouter, Brave, E2B, SiliconFlow, Agora, Fish Audio, Dupdub, and more. We sincerely thank our partners for their support and look forward to providing users and developers with richer, more advanced solutions while advancing the integration of AI technologies with existing software.
This open ecosystem fosters collaboration, innovation, and mutual success for all participants.
Outlook
We will continue to decouple and open Dify's core capabilities through plugins, enhancing platform flexibility to meet diverse development needs. For example, by utilizing data processing components to improve RAG workflow orchestration, we aim to help developers address complex challenges.
To support ecosystem growth, we will establish a continuous partner network, creating an open AI middleware platform that connects tools with users and provides tailored solutions. We will also promote industry-specific use cases, accelerating digital transformation and smart upgrades for enterprises.
Additionally, Dify will improve developer documentation and toolchain support, inviting global developers to co-build through online and offline activities. We will carefully listen to community feedback, optimize product features, and work towards building an open, thriving ecosystem that drives innovation and resource sharing.
Conclusion
To make it easier for everyone to experience Dify v1.0.0, explore the platform's features, and participate in the co-building of the Dify ecosystem, please find the relevant access links below:
We sincerely invite all users and developers to experience Dify v1.0.0, actively participate in ecosystem co-creation, and help usher in a new era of AI application development!
