
Lightning-fast email productivity suite with powerful AI triage and shortcuts, but carries a steep subscription price.
Lightning-fast email productivity suite with powerful AI triage and shortcuts, but carries a steep subscription price.
Dify records 819,691 monthly visits with -15% month-over-month growth and Freemium pricing. Shortwave records 193,316 monthly visits with -5.1% growth and Freemium, Free Trial pricing.

Automate your email with AI
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | ![]() |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | dify.ai | shortwave.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium | Freemium, Free Trial |
| Monthly Visits | 819.69K (819,691) | 193.32K (193,316) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -144.26K (-15%) | -10.44K (-5.1%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇨🇳 China (46.7%) | 🇺🇸 United States (66.6%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 470.6K | 155.93K |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.5 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |

Build, deploy, and govern production-ready agentic AI workflows
A visual canvas where retrieval, branching, tool calls, human review, and model steps form a visible, testable execution path you can debug and hand off.
Create agents through chat or manual configuration, give them skills, tools, and knowledge, then ship them as apps, embeds, or reusable nodes inside workflows.
Build repeatable ingestion pipelines for documents, sites, and drives, with extraction, cleaning, chunking, indexing, and retrieval testing before you go live.
Install model providers, tools, data sources, and MCP integrations once and reuse approved plugins across every app in the workspace.

Automate your email with AI
A conversational agent that organizes your inbox, identifies what matters, drafts replies, writes scheduling emails and runs multi-step workflows from a single prompt.
Plain-language AI filters and scripts that automatically label, archive, star or sweep messages so you reach inbox zero faster.
Ask questions in natural language and search across your own messages — or your whole team's emails and attachments — to get answers rather than links.
Shared threads, private comments, assigned next steps and shared labels give a team one live view of important conversations.

Lightning-fast email productivity suite with powerful AI triage and shortcuts, but carries a steep subscription price.
Lightning-fast email productivity suite with powerful AI triage and shortcuts, but carries a steep subscription price.
Free / Open-sourceAn open-source automation powerhouse with deep app connectors, though less specialized for native LLM prompt chaining.
Free / Open-sourceAn open-source automation powerhouse with deep app connectors, though less specialized for native LLM prompt chaining.
Offers a streamlined no-code builder for deploying custom AI agents, but lacks Dify's open-source flexibility.
Offers a streamlined no-code builder for deploying custom AI agents, but lacks Dify's open-source flexibility.

Free / Open-sourceA self-hosted chat interface for running local LLMs, though lighter on complex visual workflow orchestration.
Free / Open-sourceA self-hosted chat interface for running local LLMs, though lighter on complex visual workflow orchestration.

Collaborative email client combining shared inboxes, team chat, and AI assistance for streamlined workflow management.
Collaborative email client combining shared inboxes, team chat, and AI assistance for streamlined workflow management.

Feature-rich cross-platform email client with integrated AI summarization and writing tools across multiple devices.
Feature-rich cross-platform email client with integrated AI summarization and writing tools across multiple devices.

SpecialistProvides advanced programmatic frameworks for document parsing and RAG pipelines, but requires coding instead of visual canvases.
SpecialistProvides advanced programmatic frameworks for document parsing and RAG pipelines, but requires coding instead of visual canvases.

SpecialistVersatile AI assistant for inbox management and scheduling accessed directly via email, SMS, or WhatsApp.

Privacy-focused email client featuring cross-platform support and a built-in generative AI assistant for drafts.
Privacy-focused email client featuring cross-platform support and a built-in generative AI assistant for drafts.

SpecialistAutonomous AI executive assistant handling complex email triaging, meeting notes, and calendar scheduling.
SpecialistAutonomous AI executive assistant handling complex email triaging, meeting notes, and calendar scheduling.
Free / Open-sourceAn open-source automation platform combining visual flows with AI steps, though geared more towards general app integration.
Free / Open-sourceAn open-source automation platform combining visual flows with AI steps, though geared more towards general app integration.

Built for scaling multi-agent workforces and B2B task automation, though less focused on open-source RAG pipelines.
Built for scaling multi-agent workforces and B2B task automation, though less focused on open-source RAG pipelines.