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Dagger pricing
Dagger publishes 3 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 31 August 2026, Dagger pricing is free, then $50/month across 3 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $50/month
- Model
- Per month per team for Dagger Cloud
- Tiers
- 3
- Free tier
- Yes
Dagger plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual | Free | 7 | Entry tier |
| Team | $50/month | 6 | +$50/month, 6 more features |
| Enterprise | On request | 4 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Individual
FreeThe entry tier. It covers one user, one million events per month, workflow logs and function call traces, cache visibility, github checks integration, one month run history.
Team
$50/monthOver Individual, this tier adds:
- Up to ten users
- Ten million events per month
- Module insights and module catalogue
- One year run history
- Email support
- Two week trial
Enterprise
On requestOver Team, this tier adds:
- Custom user and event limits
- SSO
- Managed single-tenant deployment
- 24/7 premium support
Where Dagger stops being free
Individual, Free
- One user
- One million events per month
- Workflow logs and function call traces
- Cache visibility
- GitHub Checks integration
- One month run history
- Community support
Team, $50/month
The first thing you pay for:
- Up to ten users
- Ten million events per month
- Module insights and module catalogue
- One year run history
- Email support
- Two week trial
What the product covers
The full Dagger feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- Pipelines as code
- Local and CI parity
- Content-addressed caching
- Dagger Functions and modules
- CI-provider agnostic
- Dagger Cloud traces
- GitHub Checks integration
- Container-native execution
People bring Dagger in for a platform team maintaining near-identical build yaml across forty repositories that wants one versioned module every repository calls instead, an engineering organisation migrating off a ci provider that does not want to rewrite every pipeline as part of the migration, a team whose engineers waste hours pushing commits to debug ci-only failures and needs to reproduce the exact run locally, a monorepo where most commits touch a small subset of services and cache-accurate step skipping cuts build minutes materially. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Dagger are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Developer Tools
Across the 5 developer tools tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $39/month. Dagger starts at $50/month, which puts it above the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dagger (this page) | Free, then $50/month | Per month per team for Dagger Cloud | - | |
| Tilt | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Dagger |
| Hookdeck | Free, then $39/month | Per month by delivered event count | - | vs Dagger |
| Jitsu | Free, then $99/month | Per month by event volume | - | vs Dagger |
| Ona (formerly Gitpod) | Free, then $20/month | Per month by compute unit | - | vs Dagger |
| Restate | Free, then $300/month | Per month by durable action count | - | vs Dagger |
| Cloud Native Buildpacks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Dagger |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Dagger badges page.
Before you pay for Dagger
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 3 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Dagger runs on linux, macos, windows, self-hosted, and is published by Dagger, Inc. of Remote, United States. The full record is on the Dagger review, and the rest of the category is under best developer tools tools.
Dagger pricing questions
- How much does Dagger cost?
- Dagger publishes 3 tiers, from Free for Individual up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Dagger have a free plan?
- Yes. The Individual tier costs nothing and covers one user, one million events per month, workflow logs and function call traces. Paying starts at $50/month for Team.
- What is the difference between Individual and Team on Dagger?
- Team costs $50/month against Free, and adds up to ten users, ten million events per month, module insights and module catalogue, one year run history.
- Is the Enterprise plan on Dagger worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is custom user and event limits, sso, managed single-tenant deployment, 24/7 premium support. It costs On request against $50/month for Team. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Dagger expensive for a developer tools tool?
- It starts above the middle of its category. Across the 5 developer tools tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $39/month; Dagger starts at $50/month.
- Which developer tools tools can I use without paying?
- 8 of the 8 developer tools tools listed alongside Dagger have a free tier: Tilt, Hookdeck, Jitsu, Ona (formerly Gitpod), Restate.
- What am I actually paying for with Dagger?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a platform team maintaining near-identical build yaml across forty repositories that wants one versioned module every repository calls instead, an engineering organisation migrating off a ci provider that does not want to rewrite every pipeline as part of the migration, a team whose engineers waste hours pushing commits to debug ci-only failures and needs to reproduce the exact run locally.
- Does Dagger charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 3 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Dagger prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Dagger against before paying?
- The closest developer tools tools in this directory are Tilt, Hookdeck, Jitsu, Ona (formerly Gitpod). Each has a side-by-side comparison with Dagger covering price, platforms and features.