Automation Integration · pricing
Dagster pricing
Dagster publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $10/month
- Model
- Free open-source core plus paid cloud platform
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Dagster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Solo | $10/month | 4 | +$10/month, 4 more features |
| Starter | $100/month | 5 | +$90/month, 3 more features |
| Pro | On request | 5 | 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.
Open Source
FreeThe entry tier. It covers self-hosted deployment, full orchestration engine, community support.
Solo
$10/monthOver Open Source, this tier adds:
- 1 user and 1 code location
- Pay-as-you-go credits at $0.040 per credit
- 1 deployment
- 30-day free trial
Starter
$100/monthOver Solo, this tier adds:
- Up to 3 users and 5 code locations
- Better credit rate at $0.035 per credit
- Catalog search
Pro
On requestOver Starter, this tier adds:
- Unlimited code locations and deployments
- Custom serverless compute pricing
- Personalized onboarding
- Private Slack channel
- Uptime SLAs
Where Dagster stops being free
Open Source, Free
- Self-hosted deployment
- Full orchestration engine
- Community support
Solo, $10/month
The first thing you pay for:
- 1 user and 1 code location
- Pay-as-you-go credits at $0.040 per credit
- 1 deployment
- 30-day free trial
What the product covers
The full Dagster 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.
Core
- Asset-centric orchestration
Observability
- Lineage tracking
- Data quality monitoring
Integration
- Multi-tool integration
Developer
- Branch deployments
AI
- Dagster+ AI
Infrastructure
- Hybrid deployment
People bring Dagster in for orchestrating multi-stage data transformation pipelines, tracking data lineage across transformation tools, monitoring data quality and asset health, coordinating dbt and snowflake workflows. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Dagster are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Automation Integration
Across the 7 automation integration tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $100/month. Dagster starts at $10/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dagster (this page) | Free, then $10/month | Free open-source core plus paid cloud platform | - | |
| Mage AI | $100/month | Usage-based cloud platform | - | vs Dagster |
| Prefect | Free, then $100/month | Freemium with per-user and usage-based tiers | - | vs Dagster |
| Windmill | Free, then $120/month | open-source | - | vs Dagster |
| Autonoly | Free, then $29/month | freemium | - | vs Dagster |
| HighLevel | $97/month | subscription | - | vs Dagster |
| Informatica | $3000/month | subscription | - | vs Dagster |
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 Dagster badges page.
Before you pay for Dagster
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: 4 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.
Dagster runs on cloud, self-hosted, and is published by Dagster. The full record is on the Dagster review, and the rest of the category is under best automation integration tools.
Dagster pricing questions
- How much does Dagster cost?
- Dagster publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Open Source up to On request for Pro. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Dagster have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers self-hosted deployment, full orchestration engine, community support. Paying starts at $10/month for Solo.
- What is the difference between Open Source and Solo on Dagster?
- Solo costs $10/month against Free, and adds 1 user and 1 code location, pay-as-you-go credits at $0.040 per credit, 1 deployment, 30-day free trial.
- Is the Pro plan on Dagster worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is unlimited code locations and deployments, custom serverless compute pricing, personalized onboarding, private slack channel. It costs On request against $10/month for Solo. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Dagster expensive for a automation integration tool?
- It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 7 automation integration tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $100/month; Dagster starts at $10/month.
- Which automation integration tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 automation integration tools listed alongside Dagster have a free tier: Prefect, Windmill, Autonoly, Census, Integromat.
- What am I actually paying for with Dagster?
- The record lists 7 features across 6 areas: core, observability, integration, developer, ai, infrastructure. In practice it is brought in for orchestrating multi-stage data transformation pipelines, tracking data lineage across transformation tools, monitoring data quality and asset health.
- Does Dagster charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 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 Dagster 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 Dagster against before paying?
- The closest automation integration tools in this directory are Mage AI, Prefect, Windmill, Autonoly. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Dagster covering price, platforms and features.