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Dagster
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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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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
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K8sGPT
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Diagnoses Kubernetes issues in plain English; well-known open-source developer tool.
8.7K visits/mo510 saves
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)
No public pricing
Free trial available
No public pricing
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
- ✦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
- ✦AI-Powered Analysis of Kubernetes clusters
- ✦Data Anonymization
- ✦Support for multiple AI providers (OpenAI, Azure, Google, etc.)
- ✦Auto Remediation of common Kubernetes issues
- ✦Claude Desktop Integration
- ✦Fine-Grained Control & Guardrails
- ✦Local AI Models support
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
- →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
- →Diagnosing and fixing Kubernetes issues with AI-driven insights
- →Automated troubleshooting and remediation of cluster problems
- →Enhancing Kubernetes management with Claude Desktop integration
- →Analyzing cluster state and identifying potential problems
- →Improving Kubernetes workflows
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