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Dagster

✓ verifiedFreemium

Open-source asset-based data orchestrator, with Dagster+ cloud, for building, observing and delivering reliable data and AI pipelines.

152K visits/mo

Union Cloud

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Cloud-agnostic AI/ML workflow orchestrator that runs pipelines inside a customer's own infrastructure for compute-heavy teams.

25K visits/mo

Pump

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Free cloud cost-optimization platform that pools buying power to give startups enterprise-level AWS, GCP, and Azure discounts.

64K visits/mo3.2K saves

sshx

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Open-source, encrypted web terminal sharing tool letting people collaborate live on one command line via a browser link.

26K visits/mo

Eraser AI

✓ verifiedFreemium

AI co-pilot for technical diagrams and design docs, with diagram-as-code and integrations for engineering teams.

873K visits/mo41K saves

Pricing

Solo: $10/mo + $0.040/credit (1 user)

Starter: $100/mo + $0.035/credit (up to 3 users)

Free trial available

Team: $950/month + usage (1,000 concurrent actions, 30-day retention, 1 cluster)

No public pricing

Free: $0 (3 files, 3 AI diagrams)

Starter: $15/user/mo billed annually (40 AI diagrams)

Business: $45/user/mo billed annually (250 AI diagrams, SSO)

Core features

✦Asset-based pipeline orchestration
✦Built-in lineage and data-quality checks
✦Data catalog with asset metadata
✦Native dbt, Snowflake and Fivetran integrations
✦Branch deployments and hybrid deployment
✦Open-source core plus managed Dagster+ cloud

✦Python-native dynamic workflow authoring
✦Automatic failure recovery, caching, and versioning
✦Zero Trust architecture keeping data inside customer's cloud
✦Real-time inference and agentic-AI workflow support
✦High-throughput scaling (tens of thousands of actions per run)
✦Local development environment matching production behavior

✦Automated cloud spend optimization
✦Group buying for enterprise discounts
✦Cost visibility and insights dashboards
✦Coverage across AWS, GCP, and Azure
✦No-cost service model

✦One-command installation and session sharing via link
✦End-to-end encryption so the server cannot read terminal data
✦Multiplayer infinite canvas for arranging multiple terminals
✦Live cursors and chat for real-time collaboration
✦Cross-platform CLI for macOS, Linux and Windows
✦Distributed mesh networking for low-latency global connections

✦AI-generated diagrams from prompts
✦Diagram-as-code editing
✦Markdown design docs
✦Eraserbot auto-updating codebase diagrams
✦Integrations: GitHub, Notion, Confluence, VS Code
✦Export to PNG/SVG/PDF/MD and MCP server

Use cases

→Orchestrate ETL/ELT and dbt pipelines
→Monitor data health and lineage
→Build AI/ML data pipelines
→Run reliable, observable data platforms

→ML teams orchestrating training and inference pipelines at scale
→Biotech/geospatial companies needing GPU-heavy pipeline orchestration
→Enterprises migrating off Airflow for ML workflow management
→Teams requiring workflows that never send data outside their own cloud

→Reducing startup cloud bills
→Automating reserved-capacity savings
→Gaining visibility into multi-cloud spend
→Accessing enterprise pricing without scale

→Pair debugging a remote server with a teammate
→Teaching command-line skills over a shared live session
→Sharing a CI/CD pipeline terminal for troubleshooting on GitHub Actions
→Providing temporary cloud access without exposing SSH credentials

→Create architecture and cloud diagrams fast
→Write and maintain design docs
→Keep codebase diagrams up to date
→Embed live diagrams in Notion/Confluence

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