# Dagster

> AI-native DataOps platform

- **Canonical URI:** https://www.vioscale.ai/software/dagster
- **Category:** Data Engineering Tools
- **Homepage:** https://dagster.io
- **Also known as:** dagster
- **Profile claimed by vendor:** no
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-01T16:04:48.148Z

## Vioscale score

**70.2 / 100**, confidence 53% (medium).

Composite of weighted, independently-sourced signals (no user reviews, no vendor payment).

| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence present |
|---|--:|--:|--:|:--:|
| price_level | 80 | 10 | 800 | ✓ |
| reliability | 0 | 14 | 0 | - |
| capabilities | 91.6 | 16 | 1466.1 | ✓ |
| github_stars | 79.3 | 5 | 396.3 | ✓ |
| integrations | 31 | 30 | 931.1 | ✓ |
| github_activity | 58.1 | 18 | 1045.6 | ✓ |
| release_cadence | 96.1 | 10 | 961.1 | ✓ |
| security_posture | 60 | 14 | 840 | ✓ |
| package_downloads | 82.3 | 26 | 2140.3 | ✓ |
| pricing_transparency | 100 | 16 | 1600 | ✓ |
| stackoverflow_activity | 0 | 12 | 0 | - |

## Pricing

_As of 2026-08-01, [verify at source](https://dagster.io). Independently observed._

from $0.01/mo · Hybrid · 30-day trial

> From $120/month (Solo) or $1200/month (Starter) plus metered credit usage. 30-day free trial on all plans.

| Plan | Price | Free | Commitment |
|---|---|:--:|---|
| Solo | $120/month with 7.5k credits/month, 30-day free trial | - | monthly |
| Starter | $1200/month with 30k credits/month, 30-day free trial | - | monthly |
| Pro | Contact sales | - | - |
| Enterprise | Contact sales | - | - |

### Solo

Personal projects and simple pipelines

**Included limits:** users: 1, deployments: 1, code_locations: 1, credits_per_month: 7.5k

- Core orchestration
- Asset-based orchestration
- Workflow-based orchestration
- Local development workflow
- Components
- Declarative Automation
- Partitions and backfills

### Starter

Production pipelines that scale with role-based access control

**Included limits:** users: 3, deployments: 1, code_locations: 5, credits_per_month: 30k

- Core orchestration
- Asset-based orchestration
- Workflow-based orchestration
- Local development workflow
- Components
- Declarative Automation
- Partitions and backfills
- Data quality
- Asset checks
- Freshness policies
- Catalog Search
- Asset metadata in UI
- Asset-level lineage
- Role-based access control
- Alerts: email, Slack, Microsoft Teams

### Pro (Contact sales)

Building and scaling an enterprise data platform

**Included limits:** deployments: Unlimited, code_locations: Unlimited

- Custom Serverless compute
- Unlimited code locations
- Unlimited deployments
- Cost Tracking and Insights
- Personalized Onboarding Support
- Private Slack channel
- Uptime SLAs
- Custom Security Questionnaires
- Data Column Lineage
- BI Tool Cataloguing
- Connections
- Metrics-based alerts
- Custom metrics from asset metadata
- Cost tracking for BigQuery and Snowflake
- AI and agents
- Dagster+ AI chat
- PagerDuty and Datadog
- Alerting asset owners
- RBAC with granular roles per project
- SAML
- Deployment options: ECS, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure, local
- SIEM log export

### Enterprise (Contact sales)

Large-scale data platforms

**Included limits:** deployments: Unlimited, code_locations: Unlimited

- All Pro features
- Okta and Entra ID SCIM provisioning
- Audit logs
- Agent queues with multi-agent routing and multi-region failover
- EU data residency option

## About

Data orchestration platform that structures how data is built, observed, and delivered across any tool in the stack, enabling teams and AI agents to rely on trustworthy data infrastructure.

_Independently observed._

## Platform & deployment

- **Platforms:** CLI, Web
- **Deployment:** Cloud / SaaS, Hybrid, Self-hosted

## Integrations (11)

_Independently observed._

- dbt
- Snowflake
- BigQuery
- Datadog
- PagerDuty
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Claude Code
- Cursor
- Databricks
- Azure

## Capabilities

_The capabilities that matter for Data Engineering Tools. "-" = undocumented, not absent._

| Capability | Supported |
|---|:--:|
| **Core** | |
| Tool role | Orchestrator |
| Processing paradigm | Batch + streaming |
| **Connectivity** | |
| Connector count | - |
| 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) | ✓ |

## Facts

Every value below carries its source and our confidence. Facts are re-crawled on a freshness schedule.

### activity

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| activity.commits_last_30d | 69 | [link](https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/pulse) | 2026-08-01 | 65% (medium) |

### adoption

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| adoption.github_stars | 15,921 | [link](https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster) | 2026-08-01 | 90% (high) |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 2,176,853 | [link](https://pypistats.org/packages/dagster) | 2026-08-01 | 85% (high) |

### integrations

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| integrations.count | 11 | [link](https://dagster.io) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |

### language

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| language.primary | Python | [link](https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster) | 2026-08-01 | 98% (high) |

### license

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | [link](https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster) | 2026-08-01 | 95% (high) |

### pricing

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing.free_tier | yes | [link](https://dagster.io) | 2026-08-01 | 48% (low) |
| pricing.model | freemium | [link](https://dagster.io) | 2026-08-01 | 56% (medium) |
| pricing.price_level | low | [link](https://dagster.io) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.starting_gbp | 0.01 | [link](https://dagster.io) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |
| pricing.transparent | yes | [link](https://dagster.io) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |

### release

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| release.cadence_days | 7 | [link](https://github.com/dagster-io/dagster/releases) | 2026-08-01 | 70% (medium) |

### security

| Attribute | Value | Source | Retrieved | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | [link](https://dagster.io) | 2026-08-01 | 60% (medium) |
| security.gdpr | yes | [link](https://dagster.io/security) | 2026-08-01 | 75% (high) |
| security.hipaa | yes | [link](https://dagster.io/security) | 2026-08-01 | 75% (high) |
| security.soc2 | yes | [link](https://dagster.io/security) | 2026-08-01 | 75% (high) |

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