Solution Practice

Building a Dify-LLM Application Development Platform

Building a Dify-LLM Application Development Platform

Dify is an open-source large language model (LLM) application development platform that integrates the concepts of Backend as a Service (BaaS) and LLMOps, enabling developers to quickly build production-grade generative AI applications.
Dify is an open-source large language model (LLM) application development platform that integrates the concepts of Backend as a Service (BaaS) and LLMOps, enabling developers to quickly build production-grade generative AI applications.
Applicable Customers

Startups that need to accelerate AI product development | Enterprises building intelligent knowledge bases | Teams automating repetitive tasks with AI

Application Scenarios

Application Scenarios

Build the Enterprise's "Knowledge Encyclopedist"

Upload product manuals, internal policies, and other documents to Dify to build a knowledge base. When employees ask questions, AI instantly retrieves answers from vast amounts of data, eliminating the need to search through files manually.

Enable AI Collaboration for Complex Tasks

Orchestrate tasks with Dify workflows, such as having AI write poster copy and then automatically invoking an image generation AI to create accompanying visuals. The entire process is automated, allowing one person to handle the workload of a creative team.

Become a "Viral Copywriting" Generation Factory

Batch-generate consistent-style copy for platforms like Xiaohongshu and WeChat Official Accounts. Set product selling points and templates, generate dozens of copy variations from different angles with one click, and automatically push them to WeCom, significantly improving content production efficiency.

Intelligent Assistant Connecting to Business Systems

Enable AI to directly “operate” your enterprise software. For instance, when a salesperson tells the AI, “Check the order status for Customer X,” the AI can automatically log in to the system, query the status, and provide the results, directly serving business processes with AI reasoning.

Architecture and Deploy

Standalone Deploy
Deployment Description

This solution deploys the Dify-LLM application development platform based on Flexus Cloud Server X instances.

The architecture of this solution includes the following infrastructure and cloud services:

Flexus X Instance: For building the Dify-LLM application development platform.
Elastic IP (EIP): Provides capabilities for accessing the public network and being accessed from the public network.
Estimated cost: $5.00

The estimated cost is calculated based on running for one hour with the default specifications; please refer to the Resource and Cost Plan for details. This price is not the final pricing, and the actual cost will be subject to the settlement bill.

Deployment duration: 10 minutes
Enhanced Knowledge Base Search
Deployment Description

This solution deploys the Dify-LLM application development platform based on Flexus Cloud Server X instances.

The architecture of this solution includes the following infrastructure and cloud services:

Flexus X Instance: For building the Dify-LLM application development platform.
Elastic IP (EIP): Provides capabilities for accessing the public network and being accessed from the public network.
Cloud Search Service (CSS): Provides online distributed search and semantic search capabilities.
Estimated cost: $5.00

The estimated cost is calculated based on running for one hour with the default specifications; please refer to the Resource and Cost Plan for details. This price is not the final pricing, and the actual cost will be subject to the settlement bill.

Deployment duration: 20 minutes
High Availability Deploy
Deployment Description

This solution deploys the  Dify-LLM application development platform based on Flexus Cloud Server X instances and Cloud Container Engine CCE.

The architecture of this solution includes the following infrastructure and cloud services:  

Cloud Container Engine CCE Turbo cluster: Used to deploy the Dify-LLM application development platform container cluster.
Flexus X Instance: Serves as the worker nodes for the CCE container cluster to host container instances.
Elastic IP (EIP): Provides capabilities for accessing the public network and being accessed from the public network.
Elastic Load Balance (ELB): Automatically distributes external inference traffic, enhancing external service capability and application fault tolerance.
NAT Gateway : Allows instances within private subnets and container subnets to securely initiate outbound Internet connections to request upstream APIs.
Object Storage Service (OBS): Used to mount the Dify knowledge base to an OBS bucket.
Distributed Cache Service (DCS): Used for global rate limiting and route cache status synchronization across multiple replicas.
RDS for PostgreSQL: For storing application configurations, vector embeddings/retrieval results, temporary sessions, and other data.
Cloud Search Service (CSS): Provides online distributed search and semantic search capabilities.
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Estimated cost: $10.00

The estimated cost is calculated based on running for one hour with the default specifications; please refer to the Resource and Cost Plan for details. This price is not the final pricing, and the actual cost will be subject to the settlement bill. 

Deployment duration: 30 minutes

Solution Advantages

Solution Advantages

Automatic AI Model Selection

When faced with multiple models, users can set rules (such as cost priority or speed priority), and the gateway will automatically select the appropriate model to process requests, seamlessly switching to backup solutions if a model becomes unstable, ensuring the application remains stable at all times.

Zero-Cost Model Switching

Compatible with interfaces such as Midjourney Proxy, Suno, and Rerank, it enables the integration of text, image, and retrieval-augmented capabilities within a single gateway to build richer multimodal AI applications. It "translates" AI interfaces from various vendors into a universal language (OpenAI format), allowing users to switch or add new AI model providers at any time without requiring any modifications to their core code.

Built-in Commercial "Checkout"

It unifies various heterogeneous large model interfaces into the standard OpenAI format, allowing enterprises to seamlessly switch between or invoke models from different vendors, significantly reducing integration complexity. It includes a complete user, quota, and billing system, enabling the setting of permissions and usage limits for different users, and even integration with payment systems, thereby enabling enterprises to quickly form a commercial closed loop for their AI capabilities—“from usage to payment.”

Solution Practice Expansion

Solution Practice Expansion

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Building a Dify-LLM Application Development Platform

Dify is an open-source platform for developing large language model (LLM) applications. It integrates Backend as a Service (BaaS) and LLMOps concepts, enabling developers to quickly build production-grade generative AI applications.

Building a DeepSeek Inference System

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