# Airbyte vs Dagster

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Dagster

| Attribute | Airbyte | Dagster |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 65.3 (76% (high)) | 70.4 (68% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 81 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 7 | 286 |
| adoption.github_stars | 21,957 | 16,066 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 269,893 | 2,176,853 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Infrastructure that connects your business systems, pre-indexes and unifies their data, and serves it to AI agents through a managed context layer. Supports both real-time queries and pre-materialized context, with built-in OAuth, connector management, and data activation to operational tools. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"paradigm":"both","python_first":true,"managed_cloud":true,"connector_count":"50+","self_hosted_oss":true,"incremental_runs":true}` | `{"cdc":false,"role":"orchestrator","lineage":true,"paradigm":"batch","dbt_native":true,"data_quality":true,"elt_pushdown":false,"python_first":true,"managed_cloud":true,"self_hosted_oss":true,"incremental_runs":true,"distributed_executor":true}` |
| integrations.count | 50 | 14 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"Zendesk"},{"name":"Stripe"},{"name":"HubSpot"},{"name":"Gong"},{"name":"Linear"},{"name":"ActiveCampaign"},{"name":"Azure Blob Storage"},{"name":"BigQuery"},{"name":"Facebook Marketing"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitLab"},{"name":"Google Analytics"},{"name":"Google Drive"}]` | `[{"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"}]` |
| language.primary | Python | Python |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free (Agents)","summary":"Free","features":["Single user","API and MCP access","Context Store refreshes daily (hourly for first 14 days)","Community and AI support","No overage available"],"minSeats":1,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Get started for free before picking a plan","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"agent_operations":"1000/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Individual (Agents)","summary":"$29/month","features":["Single user","API and MCP access","Context Store with hourly refresh","Standard and AI support","Overage AOs available"],"minSeats":1,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":29,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"AO"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.004,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For personal use and small scale workflows","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"agent_operations":"5000/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Team (Agents)","summary":"$299/month","features":["Everything in Individual","Parallel workflow execution","Multiple users and workspaces","Standard and AI support","Overage AOs available"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":299,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"AO"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.005,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For teams building agents in production","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"agent_operations":"10000/mo"}},{"free":false,"name":"Custom (Agents)","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Everything in Team","Custom AO limits","Custom Context Store refresh frequency","Dedicated Solutions Architect","Dedicated support with SLA"],"description":"For companies with enterprise needs","contactSales":true},{"free":true,"name":"Core (Data Replication)","summary":"Free (self-managed)","features":["Self-managed","Open source","Always free"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For data engineering orgs comfortable running open source entirely on their own","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Standard (Data Replication)","summary":"Starting at $10/month","features":["Fully managed cloud hosting","Volume-based pricing","Quick deployment"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"For practitioners looking for fully managed software with volume-based pricing","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Pro (Data Replication)","summary":"Capacity-based pricing (talk to sales)","features":["Fully managed cloud hosting","Capacity-based pricing","Multiple Workspaces","SSO and RBAC","Premium Support","15-minute syncs","Custom mappings"],"description":"For organizations needing scalability, governance, and security","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise Flex (Data Replication)","summary":"Custom pricing (talk to sales)","features":["Sovereign data movement inside your boundary","On-premises and multi-region options","Hybrid deployment with Airbyte managed control plane","All Pro features","Premium support"],"description":"For enterprises in regulated industries requiring full control of sovereign data","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier available. Agent pricing from $29/month to $299/month. Data Replication from $10/month to enterprise custom pricing.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://airbyte.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-05T14:24:37.249Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.004,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Solo","summary":"$120/month with 7.5k credits/month included; overages at $0.040/credit","features":["1 User","1 Code location","1 Deployment","Core orchestration","Asset-based orchestration","Data quality checks","Asset metadata and lineage","Email/Slack/Teams alerts","Serverless compute","SOC 2 Type II","GDPR"],"minSeats":1,"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":120,"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":{"credits":"7.5k/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Starter","summary":"$1200/month with 30k credits/month included; overages at $0.035/credit","features":["Up to 3 Users","5 Code locations","1 Deployment","Catalog search","Column-level lineage","Data quality checks","Asset health status","Cost tracking for BigQuery/Snowflake","PagerDuty/Datadog integration","Role-based access control","Hybrid deployments","SSO","Audit logs"],"minSeats":3,"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":1200,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"credit"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.035,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"minute"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Production pipelines for small teams with role-based access control and catalog search","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"credits":"30k/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro/Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing; contact sales","features":["Unlimited code locations","Unlimited deployments","Custom serverless compute pricing","Cost tracking and insights","Personalized onboarding support","Private Slack channel","Uptime SLAs","Custom security questionnaires","SAML/SCIM provisioning (Okta, Entra ID)","AI-native features (Dagster+ AI chat, auto-remediation)","EU data residency","HIPAA compliance","Webhook and advanced alerting"],"description":"Large-scale enterprise data platforms with custom requirements","contactSales":true}],"summary":"From $120/month. 30-day free trial. Subscription with metered credits (asset materializations and ops executed); serverless compute charged separately.","currency":"USD","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://dagster.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T15:27:01.773Z","freeTrialDays":30,"startingPrice":{"amount":0.01,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 7 | 7 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 4.3 | 4.8 |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=airbyte-source-typeform&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"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 | Airbyte | Dagster |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Tool role | - | Orchestrator |
| Processing paradigm | Batch + streaming | Batch |
| **Connectivity** |  |  |
| Connector count | 50+ | - |
| 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: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T14:44:53.730Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*