Dify Cloud Billing#

Overview#

Dify Cloud billing is workspace-scoped: a single subscription governs team member limits, feature access, and usage quotas for every resource in the workspace 1. Only the workspace owner and admins can manage billing under Settings > Billing 2.

Plans are documented on the Dify pricing page. The three Cloud tiers are:

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Team member caps: Sandbox = 1, Professional = 3, Team = 50 4.

AI Credits#

AI Credits are Dify Cloud's built-in token economy. They let you call hosted models from supported providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and others) without supplying your own API key 5.

Pricing unit — per response, not per token. One AI response = one model call (one input → one output). A response always costs exactly one response unit regardless of token count; the number of credits varies by model, with larger/more capable models costing more 6. See the pricing page for a per-model credit breakdown.

Sandbox Plan Credits#

New accounts start on the Sandbox plan and receive 200 AI Credits 7. These are a one-time allocation — they do not renew monthly 8.

After a paid subscription is cancelled the workspace reverts to the free Sandbox plan at the end of the paid period 9.

Custom API Keys and Usage Priority#

Your own API key and AI Credits can coexist on the same provider. The Usage Priority setting on each provider card controls which source Dify draws from first 10:

• Set priority to your key → Dify uses your account key first, falling back to AI Credits when it can't.
• Set priority to AI Credits → AI Credits are consumed first, with your key as fallback.

This lets you, for example, exhaust your Sandbox credits before switching to a paid key, or run your own key and treat credits as a safety net.

For providers that AI Credits don't support, you must supply your own key — credits don't apply 11.

Managing Subscriptions#

All subscription actions are in Settings > Billing via Stripe 12:

• Upgrade — takes effect immediately; you pay the prorated difference.
• Downgrade — takes effect at the next billing cycle start.
• Cancel — workspace stays on the current plan through end of period, then drops to Sandbox.

Load Balancing (Professional / Team only)#

On Professional and Team plans you can add multiple API keys to a single model. Dify round-robins requests across them, resting any key that hits a rate limit for one minute before retrying 13. Adding a key to the pool more than once weights it to receive more traffic 14.

Dify for Education#

Students, teachers, and educational staff are eligible for the Yearly Professional plan for free through the education discount program. Verification requires an institutional email and is renewed annually.

Verify Education Status#

From Settings > Billing, workspace owners and admins can click Verify Education Status to begin the application flow. This navigates to /education/verify, which validates eligibility and acquires a verification token. After verification succeeds, you're redirected to /education/apply?token=... to complete the application form.

Key References#