Dify raises $30M to expand its people-and-agents platform for open source and enterprise teams

Dify announced a $30 million Series Pre-A on March 10, 2026 and framed the raise around a clear thesis: tomorrow’s organizations will be built by people and agents working together. The company says the new capital will support both its open-source community and a deeper push into enterprise AI deployment.

The funding matters, but the accompanying product changes are just as important. In the official post, Dify says it is increasing free LLM credits by 50% across all tiers while expanding features aimed at team coordination and controlled rollout. Those additions include canvas workflow, teammate seat bundles, permission control, zero-friction publishing, and enterprise-ready usage insights.

What Dify bundled with the funding round

$30 million in new capital to accelerate its agentic AI platform strategy.

A continued commitment to open source alongside enterprise expansion.

A 50% increase in free LLM credits to lower experimentation costs.

More emphasis on workflow design, collaboration, governance, and usage visibility.

Dify’s market position is notable because it is not trying to compete as a foundation-model vendor. Instead, it operates at the orchestration layer, where teams assemble models, tools, retrieval systems, and workflow logic into usable agents. That layer becomes more valuable as companies move from demos to production, because the bottleneck shifts from raw model quality to coordination, permissions, observability, and deployment speed.

The round therefore signals confidence in the software stack around agentic AI, not just in the models underneath it. If enterprises increasingly want systems they can configure, govern, and iterate on without building everything from scratch, vendors like Dify stand to benefit. The company’s choice to announce pricing, credits, and collaboration features alongside the raise suggests it wants to convert financing momentum directly into product adoption.

It also highlights how investor attention is moving toward the tooling layer around AI agents. The more companies experiment with real workflows, the more they need platforms that connect models, permissions, teammates, and deployment controls in one place. Dify is arguing that this coordination layer is now strategic infrastructure rather than optional middleware.

Source: Dify announcement