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Astronomer
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Fully-managed Apache Airflow platform for data and AI pipeline orchestration, with observability and an AI agent (Otto).
Pricing
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No public pricing
Developer: from $0.35/hr per deployment (workers from $0.13/hr)
Team: from $0.42/hr per deployment
Free trial available
Core features
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- ✦Fast tensor operations
- ✦Differentiable tensors for gradient-based optimization
- ✦Network connectivity
- ✦Integration with Bun and Flashlight
- ✦Support for GPU computation with CUDA (Linux) and CPU computation (macOS)
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- ✦Managed Apache Airflow (Astro)
- ✦Otto AI data-engineering agent
- ✦Local and browser-based development
- ✦Deployments as code via Git/CLI/Terraform
- ✦Native data observability and lineage
- ✦Zero-downtime upgrades and rollbacks
Use cases
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- →Creating and manipulating datasets
- →Training small machine learning models
- →Implementing advanced training and inference logic
- →Building applications that require tensor computations
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- →Orchestrate production data pipelines
- →Run Airflow without ops overhead
- →Automate DAG authoring and debugging
- →Monitor pipeline health and lineage
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