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Dagster
✓ verifiedFreemium

Open-source asset-based data orchestrator, with Dagster+ cloud, for building, observing and delivering reliable data and AI pipelines.

152K visits/mo
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Union Cloud
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Cloud-agnostic AI/ML workflow orchestrator that runs pipelines inside a customer's own infrastructure for compute-heavy teams.

25K visits/mo
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Brainboard
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AI-driven platform to visually design multi-cloud infrastructure and auto-generate Terraform code with built-in CI/CD.

17K visits/mo
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StackGen
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Agentic AI platform ('Aiden') that automates incident response, infrastructure-as-code and observability tasks with policy-based governance.

13K visits/mo
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Frugal
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FinOps tool that maps cloud and AI spend to the code driving it and auto-generates cost-cutting pull requests.

9.7K visits/mo
Pricing
Solo: $10/mo + $0.040/credit (1 user)
Starter: $100/mo + $0.035/credit (up to 3 users)

Free trial available

Team: $950/month + usage (1,000 concurrent actions, 30-day retention, 1 cluster)
Free: $0 (unlimited architectures and code generation)
Pro: $99/user/mo (Git, CI/CD, RBAC, remote backend)

Free trial available

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No public pricing

Free trial available

Core features
  • Asset-based pipeline orchestration
  • Built-in lineage and data-quality checks
  • Data catalog with asset metadata
  • Native dbt, Snowflake and Fivetran integrations
  • Branch deployments and hybrid deployment
  • Open-source core plus managed Dagster+ cloud
  • Python-native dynamic workflow authoring
  • Automatic failure recovery, caching, and versioning
  • Zero Trust architecture keeping data inside customer's cloud
  • Real-time inference and agentic-AI workflow support
  • High-throughput scaling (tens of thousands of actions per run)
  • Local development environment matching production behavior
  • Visual multi-cloud architecture designer
  • Instant Terraform/OpenTofu code generation
  • Drift detection and remediation
  • Embedded visual CI/CD engine
  • GitOps workflow and RBAC
  • AI infrastructure generation from prompts
  • Automated service discovery and dependency topology mapping
  • SLO-based alert triage and prioritization
  • AI-driven root cause analysis with pre-built workflows
  • Human-approved remediation with full audit trails
  • Works alongside existing tools like Datadog, Grafana, New Relic
  • Governance and policy enforcement layer for agent actions
  • Maps cloud costs to the code that drives them
  • Cost-impact review on every pull request
  • Frugalbot agents that generate cost-reducing PRs
  • Coverage of storage, logs, AI APIs, serverless and databases
  • GitHub and GitLab workflow integrations
Use cases
  • Orchestrate ETL/ELT and dbt pipelines
  • Monitor data health and lineage
  • Build AI/ML data pipelines
  • Run reliable, observable data platforms
  • ML teams orchestrating training and inference pipelines at scale
  • Biotech/geospatial companies needing GPU-heavy pipeline orchestration
  • Enterprises migrating off Airflow for ML workflow management
  • Teams requiring workflows that never send data outside their own cloud
  • Designing and deploying cloud infrastructure visually
  • Migrating to Infrastructure as Code
  • Standardizing Terraform modules and naming
  • Detecting drift between design and live cloud
  • SRE teams reducing mean-time-to-resolution during incidents
  • Platform engineers wanting policy-governed AI infrastructure management
  • Enterprises needing SOC 2 / PCI / HIPAA-compliant AI operations
  • Cut usage-based cloud and AI bills
  • Add cost reviews to the development workflow
  • Guide developers and AI agents to write cheaper code
  • Find savings that infrastructure right-sizing misses
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