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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
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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
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Defang
✓ verifiedFreemium
Developer tool that deploys Docker Compose apps (with LLMs and databases) into your own AWS, GCP or Azure account via one command.
20K visits/mo
Pricing
Solo: $10/mo + $0.040/credit (1 user)
Starter: $100/mo + $0.035/credit (up to 3 users)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Starter: $0 (1 cloud account)
Pro: $49/mo (1 account, +$29/mo per extra)
Enterprise: $499/mo (3 accounts, +$49/mo per extra)
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
- ✦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 deploy from Docker Compose
- ✦Deploys into your own or a customer's cloud account
- ✦Native managed LLM access (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure AI)
- ✦Managed Postgres, MongoDB and Redis
- ✦Auto-configured IAM, VPC, TLS and load balancing
- ✦Open-source CLI and cloud providers
Use cases
- →Orchestrate ETL/ELT and dbt pipelines
- →Monitor data health and lineage
- →Build AI/ML data pipelines
- →Run reliable, observable data platforms
- →Reducing startup cloud bills
- →Automating reserved-capacity savings
- →Gaining visibility into multi-cloud spend
- →Accessing enterprise pricing without scale
- →Shipping AI agents and web apps to production
- →Deploying the same app across many customer clouds
- →Agencies deploying into client cloud accounts
- →Avoiding hand-written Terraform or Kubernetes
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