Databricks vs Dify

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

Dify is the stronger AI pick in AI Agents: it has a visibility score of 5.2 versus 3 for Databricks, and ranks ahead in 0% of the answers that name both.

Choose Databricks if…

AI answers describe it more positively (35% vs 27% positive)
You need ISO 27001 or ISO 27017 or ISO 27018 or ISO 27701 or SOC 1 or SOC 3 coverage
Lakehouse architecture combining data warehousing with data lake flexibility
Strong for machine learning, AI, and data engineering workloads

Choose Dify if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (5.2 vs 3)
You need a self-hosted or on-premises option
You need ISO 27001:2022 or GDPR coverage
Self-hosting and strong data control

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 3

Metric	Databricks	Dify
Visibility score	3%	5.2%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in AI Agents	#30	#22
Share of voice	0.9%	1.5%
Mentions this run	6	11
Positive in AI answers	35%	27%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

Databricks 0pp · Dify 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

Dify leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

3.7%

9.8%

AI Mode

Perplexity

3.1%

3.9%

DatabricksDify

Head to head in AI answers

1 engine answers name both brands

1Databricks ranked higher

0Dify ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	Databricks	Dify
Which AI Agents vendors do analysts recommend?	ChatGPT	#8	#17

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	Databricks	Dify
Pricing model	—	Flat tiers
Entry price	—	Free; paid from $590 / mo
Free plan	—	Yes
Deployment	Available across all major cloud providers	Dify Cloud, customer VPC, or self-hosted (Docker, Kubernetes via Helm chart)
Compliance	ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, ISO 27701, SOC 1, SOC 2 Type II, SOC 3	SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, GDPR
Support	Technical support on request, Technical documentation	Community Discord and forum support, Dedicated CSM and 24/7 support on Enterprise, Professional technical support on Enterprise
Founded	2013	2023
Headquarters	San Francisco, CA	—
Employees	5,000+	—
Funding	Round at $60B valuation, including secondary sale	Series Pre-A
Best for	Data engineering, data science, analytics and AI teams at startups and global enterprises	Enterprise teams and developers who need to take AI agents and workflows from prototype to production, including organizations that require private deployment, security review and audit.