# Dagster vs Estuary Flow

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Estuary Flow

| Attribute | Dagster | Estuary Flow |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 70 (68% (medium)) | 79.5 (72% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 286 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 16,269 | - |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 2,028,283 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A unified orchestration and observability platform that manages data pipelines through assets, tracks dependencies and lineage, enforces data quality, and integrates with existing tools like dbt, Snowflake, and Spark. Supports both self-hosted open-source and managed cloud deployment. It is indexed under Data Engineering Tools.","source":"https://dagster.io/pricing","question":"What is Dagster?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Dagster offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.01. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://dagster.io/pricing","question":"Is Dagster free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Dagster supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://dagster.io/pricing","question":"What platforms does Dagster support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Dagster can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://dagster.io/pricing","question":"Can Dagster be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 14 integrations for Dagster, including dbt, Snowflake, Spark, Databricks, Azure, AWS, Airbyte and Tableau, plus 6 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://dagster.io/pricing","question":"What does Dagster integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Dagster. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Dagster not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://dagster.io/security","question":"What security certifications does Dagster have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. Dagster is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster","question":"Is Dagster open source?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"Dagster is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://dagster.io/pricing","question":"Where is Dagster available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"Estuary unifies ETL and ELT pipelines with real-time CDC, streaming, and batch data movement in a single managed platform. Data stays in your environment while Estuary handles continuous capture, transformation, and delivery to any destination. It is indexed under Data Engineering Tools.","source":"https://estuary.dev/pricing/","question":"What is Estuary Flow?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Estuary Flow offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $0.50. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://estuary.dev/pricing/","question":"Is Estuary Flow free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Estuary Flow supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://estuary.dev/pricing/","question":"What platforms does Estuary Flow support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Estuary Flow can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://estuary.dev/pricing/","question":"Can Estuary Flow be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 28 integrations for Estuary Flow, including Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, NetSuite and HubSpot, plus 20 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://estuary.dev/pricing/","question":"What does Estuary Flow integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Estuary Flow. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Estuary Flow not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://estuary.dev/pricing/","question":"What security certifications does Estuary Flow have?","confidence":0.6}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An orchestration and observability platform that models data assets, manages their dependencies, and integrates lineage tracking, quality monitoring, and data cataloging for managing pipelines from development to production. | Estuary is a fully managed data integration platform that consolidates the capture, movement, and transformation of data across databases, cloud storage, and applications. It supports continuous streaming, scheduled batch operations, and optional transformations using SQL, TypeScript, or dbt. |
| features.capabilities | `{"cdc":false,"role":"orchestrator","lineage":true,"paradigm":"batch","dbt_native":true,"data_quality":true,"elt_pushdown":false,"python_first":true,"managed_cloud":true,"connector_count":"28+","self_hosted_oss":true,"incremental_runs":true,"distributed_executor":true}` | `{"cdc":true,"role":"elt","soc2":true,"paradigm":"both","dbt_native":true,"cdc_support":true,"elt_pushdown":true,"managed_cloud":true,"connector_count":"200+","self_hosted_oss":true,"incremental_runs":true,"reverse_etl_addon":true,"streaming_ingestion":true,"custom_connector_sdk":true,"distributed_executor":true,"schema_drift_handling":true,"self_hosted_available":true,"managed_cloud_available":true}` |
| integrations.count | 28 | 200 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"dbt"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Spark"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Airbyte"},{"name":"Tableau"},{"name":"Soda"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"Python"},{"name":"dbt Cloud","native":true,"category":"transformation","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Fivetran","native":true,"category":"ingestion","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"AWS S3","category":"storage","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"AWS Redshift","category":"data_warehouse"},{"name":"AWS EMR","category":"compute"},{"name":"AWS Glue","category":"transformation"},{"name":"AWS Athena","category":"analytics"},{"name":"AWS CloudWatch","category":"monitoring","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Salesforce","category":"crm","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Looker","category":"analytics"},{"name":"Power BI","category":"analytics"},{"name":"Sigma","category":"analytics"},{"name":"Clickhouse","category":"storage"},{"name":"Ray","category":"compute"},{"name":"lakeFS","category":"data_management"},{"name":"OpenMetadata","category":"metadata"},{"name":"Cube","category":"semantic_layer"},{"name":"SFTP","category":"file_transfer"},{"name":"Microsoft SharePoint","category":"collaboration"},{"name":"Slurm","category":"compute"},{"name":"AWS Secrets Manager","category":"security"},{"name":"AWS SSM Parameter Store","category":"configuration"},{"name":"AWS ECR","category":"container_registry"},{"name":"Airflow","native":true,"category":"orchestration","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Singer","native":true,"category":"ingestion","direction":"inbound"}]` | `[{"name":"Oracle"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage"},{"name":"NetSuite"},{"name":"HubSpot"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"Google Pub/Sub"},{"name":"Amazon Kinesis"},{"name":"Apache Kafka"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Google BigQuery"},{"name":"Amazon Redshift"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Amazon DynamoDB"},{"name":"Pinecone"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"Facebook Ads"},{"name":"LinkedIn Ads"},{"name":"Google Ads"},{"name":"SingleStore"},{"name":"Motherduck"},{"name":"Apache Iceberg"},{"name":"BigQuery","native":true,"category":"data_warehouse"},{"name":"Airbyte","native":false,"category":"connectors"}]` |
| language.primary | Python | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Solo","summary":"$10/month + $0.04/credit + $0.01/minute serverless compute","features":["Core and asset-based orchestration","Local development (dg CLI)","Partitions and backfills","Branch deployments","Asset checks","dbt integration","Asset lineage","Email and Slack alerts"],"minSeats":1,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"credit"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.04,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Personal projects and simple pipelines","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"1","deployments":"1","code_locations":"1"}},{"free":false,"name":"Starter","summary":"$100/month + $0.035/credit","features":["All Solo features","Workflow-based orchestration","Freshness policies","Data column lineage","BI tool integration","Cost tracking for BigQuery and Snowflake","Catalog search","SAML SSO","Granular RBAC","PagerDuty and Datadog integration"],"minSeats":1,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":100,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"credit"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.035,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Small teams running production pipelines","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"users":"up to 3","code_locations":"5"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"Custom pricing; contact sales","features":["All Starter features","Custom serverless compute","Cost tracking and insights","Personalized onboarding support","Private Slack channel","Uptime SLAs","Custom security questionnaires","AI proactive monitoring","SCIM provisioning (Okta, Entra ID)","Audit logs","Hybrid deployments (Kubernetes, ECS, Docker, Azure)","EU data residency","SIEM log export"],"description":"Building and scaling an enterprise data platform","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"deployments":"Unlimited","code_locations":"Unlimited"}}],"summary":"From $10/month. Free 30-day trial. Subscription plus metered usage model.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://dagster.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T15:14:18.877Z","freeTrialDays":30,"startingPrice":{"amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"No cost, data-limited evaluation","features":["2 connector instances","10 GB/month data limit","Data stored in Estuary cloud storage"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Limited data volume with shared Estuary cloud storage","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"connector_instances":"2","data_volume_per_month":"10 GB"}},{"free":false,"name":"Cloud","summary":"$0.50/GB data moved + $100/month per connector (first 6), $50/month each additional","features":["Unlimited connector instances","Usage-based data pricing","Data stored in customer cloud account","Real-time CDC from databases","Batch and streaming data movement","SQL and TypeScript transformations","dbt integration for warehouse transformations","Schema evolution handling"],"components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.5,"currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"connector_instance (first 6)","amount":100,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"connector_instance (additional)","amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Usage-based pricing with data and connector instance charges; includes 30-day free trial","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Free tier with 10 GB/month limit. Cloud plan: $0.50/GB data moved plus connector instance fees.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://estuary.dev/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-09-18T15:55:37.792Z","freeTrialDays":30,"startingPrice":{"unit":"connector_instance (additional)","amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":10,"currency":"USD"}` | `{"amount":50,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 7 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.26","date":"2026-10-09T23:08:50Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.26"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.25","date":"2026-10-01T18:17:43Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.25"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.24","date":"2026-09-21T23:53:17Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.24"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.23","date":"2026-09-16T21:25:17Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.23"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.22","date":"2026-09-11T16:59:11Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.22"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.21","date":"2026-09-03T20:03:16Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.21"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.20","date":"2026-08-27T16:50:54Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.20"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.19","date":"2026-08-21T15:53:20Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.19"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.18","date":"2026-08-14T19:59:51Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.18"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.17","date":"2026-08-07T19:12:58Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.16","date":"2026-07-30T17:24:09Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.15","date":"2026-07-23T15:59:52Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.14","date":"2026-07-16T18:39:10Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.13","date":"2026-07-09T17:39:15Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.12","date":"2026-07-02T16:27:40Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.11","date":"2026-06-25T18:23:24Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.10","date":"2026-06-18T19:23:58Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.9","date":"2026-06-11T19:16:52Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.8","date":"2026-06-04T18:11:04Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases/tag/1.13.7","date":"2026-05-28T17:18:25Z","type":"stable","version":"1.13.7"}]` | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.scorecard | 5.1 | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://dagster.io/security | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":3,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=dagster&per_page=100","last_12m":1,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` | - |

## Capabilities (Data Engineering Tools)

| Capability | Dagster | Estuary Flow |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Tool role | Orchestrator | ELT / ingestion |
| Processing paradigm | Batch | Batch + streaming |
| **Connectivity** |  |  |
| Connector count | 28+ | 200+ |
| CDC / log-based replication | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Transformation** |  |  |
| In-warehouse transformation (push-down) | ✗ | ✓ |
| dbt-native orchestration | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Self-hosted / open-source available | ✓ | ✓ |
| Managed cloud available | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Governance** |  |  |
| Data lineage / asset catalog | ✓ | - |
| **Authoring** |  |  |
| Python-first authoring | ✓ | - |
| **Execution** |  |  |
| Incremental / partition-aware runs | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Quality** |  |  |
| Built-in data quality / tests | ✓ | - |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Horizontal scale (distributed executor) | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T17:47:43.606Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*