**Dify** is an LLM application development platform that has helped built over **100,000** applications. It integrates BaaS and LLMOps, covering the essential tech stack for building generative AI-native applications, including a built-in RAG engine. Dify allows you to **deploy your own version of Assistants API and GPTs, based on any LLMs.**
You can try out [Dify.AI Cloud](https://dify.ai) now. It provides all the capabilities of the self-deployed version, and includes 200 free requests to OpenAI GPT-3.5.
**1. LLM Support**: Integration with OpenAI's GPT family of models, or the open-source Llama2 family models. In fact, Dify supports mainstream commercial models and open-source models (locally deployed or based on MaaS).
**3. RAG Engine**: Includes various RAG capabilities based on full-text indexing or vector database embeddings, allowing direct upload of PDFs, TXTs, and other text formats.
**4. AI Agent**: Based on Function Calling and ReAct, the Agent inference framework allows users to customize tools, what you see is what you get. Dify provides more than a dozen built-in tool calling capabilities, such as Google Search, DELL·E, Stable Diffusion, WolframAlpha, etc.
**5. Continuous Operations**: Monitor and analyze application logs and performance, continuously improving Prompts, datasets, or models using production data.
The easiest way to start the Dify server is to run our [docker-compose.yml](docker/docker-compose.yaml) file. Before running the installation command, make sure that [Docker](https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/) and [Docker Compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/) are installed on your machine:
After running, you can access the Dify dashboard in your browser at [http://localhost/install](http://localhost/install) and start the initialization installation process.
If you need to customize the configuration, please refer to the comments in our [docker-compose.yml](docker/docker-compose.yaml) file and manually set the environment configuration. After making the changes, please run `docker-compose up -d` again. You can see the full list of environment variables in our [docs](https://docs.dify.ai/getting-started/install-self-hosted/environments).
We are looking for contributors to help with translating Dify to languages other than Mandarin or English. If you are interested in helping, please see the [i18n README](https://github.com/langgenius/dify/blob/main/web/i18n/README_EN.md) for more information, and leave us a comment in the `global-users` channel of our [Discord Community Server](https://discord.gg/AhzKf7dNgk).
* [Canny](https://feedback.dify.ai/). Best for: sharing feedback and checking out our feature roadmap.
* [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/langgenius/dify/issues). Best for: bugs you encounter using Dify.AI, and feature proposals. See our [Contribution Guide](https://github.com/langgenius/dify/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
* [Email Support](mailto:hello@dify.ai?subject=[GitHub]Questions%20About%20Dify). Best for: questions you have about using Dify.AI.
* [Discord](https://discord.gg/FngNHpbcY7). Best for: sharing your applications and hanging out with the community.
* [Twitter](https://twitter.com/dify_ai). Best for: sharing your applications and hanging out with the community.
* [Business Contact](mailto:business@dify.ai?subject=[GitHub]Business%20License%20Inquiry). Best for: business inquiries of licensing Dify.AI for commercial use.
To protect your privacy, please avoid posting security issues on GitHub. Instead, send your questions to security@dify.ai and we will provide you with a more detailed answer.
