- Primary focus
- Astro: managed Apache Airflow for orchestrating data pipelines and agentic AI workflows.
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Other license
- Pricing model
- paid
- API available
- Yes
- Windows desktop
- Not specified
- Mobile app
- Not specified
- Overview
- Astronomer builds Astro, a managed Apache Airflow platform for orchestrating data and, increasingly, agentic AI pipelines. The company employs many of Airflow's top open-source committers and prices usage per compute-hour with enterprise tiers.

| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Primary focus | Astro: managed Apache Airflow for orchestrating data pipelines and agentic AI workflows. | Open-source data orchestrator with software-defined assets; Dagster Labs joined Prefect in 2026. |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Self-hosted |
| Source model | Other license | Open source |
| Pricing model | paid | open source |
| API available | Yes | Yes |
| Windows desktop | Not specified | Not specified |
| Mobile app | Not specified | Not specified |
| Overview | Astronomer builds Astro, a managed Apache Airflow platform for orchestrating data and, increasingly, agentic AI pipelines. The company employs many of Airflow's top open-source committers and prices usage per compute-hour with enterprise tiers. | Dagster is an open-source Python orchestrator built around software-defined assets. Its creator, Dagster Labs (formerly Elementl), was acquired by Prefect in 2026; the open-source project keeps its license and Dagster+ continues unchanged for existing customers. |
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- Primary focus
- Open-source data orchestrator with software-defined assets; Dagster Labs joined Prefect in 2026.
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Open source
- Pricing model
- open source
- API available
- Yes
- Windows desktop
- Not specified
- Mobile app
- Not specified
- Overview
- Dagster is an open-source Python orchestrator built around software-defined assets. Its creator, Dagster Labs (formerly Elementl), was acquired by Prefect in 2026; the open-source project keeps its license and Dagster+ continues unchanged for existing customers.
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