Dagster

Data orchestration platform for building, testing, and running data pipelines

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Pricing

Freemium

Learning curve

Moderate

Time to value

Weeks

BEST FORSmall TeamGrowing Business

WORKS FOR

Orchestrating data pipelines and workflows, Building dev-centric platforms, Part of a stack for building platforms

KEY INSIGHT

It's a core data orchestration component for teams building and running complex data pipelines.

DOESN'T WORK FOR

No specific shortcomings mentioned in the provided reviews

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What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

“as a data engineer my current favorite general purpose orchestrator is dagster. it's lightweight yet flexible”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-01-22
“Dagster broke while I was on holiday & I didn't catch it until the next day”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2025-08-26
“My experience with Dagster has made me appreciative of plain, simple Python code and highly skeptical of frameworks.”
NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-04-13