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ClearML
Open-source MLOps platform for experiment tracking and orchestration
As of 29 August 2026, ClearML is free to use. End-to-end MLOps: experiment tracking, data versioning, pipelines and remote execution in one open-source platform. Softwr lists it under Machine Learning. ClearML is available on Linux, macOS, Windows, Self-hosted.
Overview
What ClearML does
ClearML is an open-source MLOps platform covering experiment tracking, data versioning, pipeline orchestration and remote execution. Its breadth is the differentiator: where many teams assemble tracking from one tool, orchestration from another and serving from a third, ClearML aims to cover the chain. Instrumentation is deliberately light — adding a couple of lines to an existing training script captures parameters, metrics, artefacts and the environment. From there the same experiment can be cloned and re-run on remote hardware without repackaging it.
What people use it for
- Tracking experiments across a team so results are reproducible
- Moving training from laptops to shared GPU hardware without repackaging
- Versioning datasets alongside the experiments that consumed them
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about ClearML.
- Broad scope means more to learn and more to run than a focused tracking tool
- Self-hosting the server is real infrastructure — database, file storage and web server
- Documentation quality is uneven across the newer parts of the platform
- Smaller community than the most popular tracking tools, so fewer worked examples exist
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Pricing
What ClearML costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Open source
Free
- Experiment tracking
- Pipelines
- Self-hosted server
Capabilities
Features
Experiment tracking
Captures parameters, metrics, artefacts and environment automatically
Remote execution
Clone an experiment and run it on remote GPU hardware
Data versioning
Versioned datasets linked to the experiments that used them
Pipelines
Multi-step workflows built from tracked tasks
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Questions people ask
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Is ClearML free?
The open-source version is free and self-hostable. Hosted and enterprise tiers are paid.
How much code does tracking require?
Very little — adding a couple of lines to an existing training script captures parameters, metrics and environment automatically.
Does ClearML replace MLflow?
It covers MLflow’s tracking and adds orchestration, remote execution and data versioning. Whether that breadth is an advantage or extra weight depends on whether you need the rest.
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Compare ClearML with
- MLflow
- Weights & Biases
- Comet ML
- Neptune.ai
- Dataiku
- Pachyderm
- Azure Machine Learning
- Domino Data Lab
- DVC
- AWS SageMaker
- Google Vertex AI
- DataRobot
- Pinecone
- Python
- PyTorch
- scikit-learn
- Apache Spark MLlib
- Weaviate
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