Unleash 10,000+ Models in Dify: Introducing the Featherless.ai plugin

Developers building AI applications often face a choice between the convenience of proprietary models and the flexibility of open-source alternatives. While open-source models offer incredible specialization, deploying and managing them can be a significant infrastructure challenge. To help solve this, we are excited to announce our new dedicated plugin for Dify, the open-source LLMOps platform. This integration directly connect’s Dify’s powerful low-code application orchestration with any of the over 10,000 open-weight models available on Featherless, making it easier to build and prototype applications using the best open-weight models for the job.

Why use Featherless as a Dify user?

Integrating Featherless into your Dify workspace unlocks several key advantages:

• Unmatched Variety: With a catalog of over 11,800 models (and counting) from leading families like DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama, Mistral and Gemma, you can find the perfect tool for any job, whether it be creative writing or complex code generation.

• Serverless: Forget about managing GPUs, dependencies or Kubernetes clusters. We handle all the complex model loading and GPU orchestration, you just have to worry about choosing the model.

• Predictable, Developer-Friendly Pricing: Our concurrency-based subscription model offers unlimited requests for a flat monthly fee. This is ideal for building the kind of “chatty”, multi-step AI agents that Dify excels at, protecting you from the unpredictable, per-token cost. Experiment with your apps without having to worry about going over any thresholds.

• Privacy-first: At Featherless we do not log any of your prompts or completions, ensuring your data remains private and secure

What is Dify?

For those new to the platform, Dify is a comprehensive, open-source environment for building and operating production-ready generative AI applications. It combines Backend-as-a-service (BaaS) and LLMOps, streamlining development for both technical and non-technical creators.

Think of Dify not as a simple toolbox but as a well-designed scaffolding system. It provides the essential structure, including an intuitive visual prompt orchestration interface, a high-quality RAG engine, and a flexible AI Agent framework, that lets you focus on creating innovative solutions instead of reinventing the wheel. With Dify, you can visually design complex workflows, connect to knowledge bases, define tools, and deploy applications as web apps or APIs, all while maintaining full control over your data.

The power of Featherless + Dify

This integration creates a virtuous cycle. Dify’s user-friendly, visual environment encourages developers to experiment with different models and complex agentic patterns. Simultaneously, Featherless’s massive model variety makes Dify’s advanced features, particularly its flexible AI Agent framework, exponentially more powerful.

This partnership unlocks tangible benefits that directly impact your workflow, cost, and application quality:

Accelerated prototyping

Finding the right model for a specific task is a critical phase of development. With this integration, the process is reduced from days to minutes. You can test a dozen different models simply by changing the name in a Dify LLM node and re-running the workflow.

Future-proofing applications

The open-source AI landscape moves at a blistering pace. Because Featherless is constantly expanding its catalog, applications built on the Dify plugin are effectively future-proofed. When a new state-of-the-art model is released, it becomes available through our API, allowing you to upgrade your application with zero code changes.

Getting Started

Thanks to our dedicated Dify plugin, integration is seamless and takes only a minute.

1. Get your Featherless API Key

   Sign up for a Featherless.ai account, get a subscription and grab your API key from the dashboard

2. Install the FeatherlessAI plugin from the Dify Marketplace

   In your Dify workspace, navigate to the “Plugins” section. Search the marketplace for “FeatherlessAI” and click “Install”. This adds our entire model catalog as a native provider.

3. Configure and Build Navigate to Settings -> Model Providers.

   You will now see FeatherlessAI listed as a provider. Simply add your API key to activate it. That’s it! When you add an LLM node to any Dify workflow, you can sleect “FeatherlessAI” as your provider and type the Hugging Face name of any model from our catalog (e.g.,meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct) into the model field.

Unlocking New Possibilities

This integration opens the door to building applications such as a “Multi-Specialist AI Agent”, an agent that doesn’t rely on a single, jack-of-all-trades model, but instead posses the intelligence to delegate sub-tasks to different, highly specialized models. Imagine an agent that can autonomously call upon a creative writing model to draft a story, a coding model to generate a supporting script, and a powerful reasoning model to synthesize the results into a final report. You can build this today with Featherless and Dify

Call to Action

• Sign up for Featherless.ai to get your api key and start building.

• Explore our full model catalog to find the perfect models for your next project.

• Join our Discord community to connect with over developers, ask questions, and share what you’re building.