Workflow Orchestration Software
Alternatives to Dagster
The tools Specifiction weighs against Dagster, from its list of workflow orchestration software, each with its plans, platforms and spec score.
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ActiveBatch ActiveBatch suits IT teams coordinating complex scheduled or event-triggered workflows across on-premises and cloud environments.
Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux9.3 Visit Specs - 02 Flowable From $99/mo Free plan Open source Web · Linux · iOS · Android9.1 Visit Specs
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Flyte It suits teams running AI training, serving or agent workflows that need retries, dynamic execution and self-hosted deployment.
From $950/mo Free plan Open source Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted9.0 Visit Specs - 04
Inngest Inngest suits developers building event-driven workflows, background jobs, or agents who need durable execution and observability.
From $99/mo Free plan Open source Web · Windows · macOS · Linux9.0 Visit Specs - 05 Apache DolphinScheduler
It suits teams building self-hosted data workflows that need visual design, code-based definitions, scheduling, and execution observability.
Free plan Open source Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted8.9 Visit Specs - 06
Camunda Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.8 Visit Specs - 07
Google Cloud Workflows It suits teams coordinating cloud services, batch jobs, or business and IT processes.
From $0.01/mo Free plan Web · API8.8 Visit Specs - 08
Apache Airflow Airflow suits teams with scheduled batch workflows they want to define in Python and operate through a web interface.
Free plan Web · macOS · Linux · API8.6 Visit Specs - 09
Argo Workflows Argo Workflows suits teams running containerized pipelines, batch jobs, infrastructure automation, or CI/CD on Kubernetes.
Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.6 Visit Specs - 10
Kestra Kestra suits teams coordinating workflows across services, languages, and environments.
Free plan Open source Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.6 Visit Specs - 11
Windmill Windmill suits development teams building internal tools, workflows and endpoints with scripts or low-code builders.
From $120/mo Free plan Open source Web · Windows · Linux · API8.6 Visit Specs - 12
Bonita Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.4 Visit Specs - 13
Bizagi Modeler It suits people documenting or simulating business processes with BPMN, including teams that need process diagrams published to web or SharePoint.
Free plan Web · Windows8.0 Visit Specs - 14
Cadence Free plan Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted8.0 Visit Specs - 15
Hatchet Hatchet suits developers building AI agents, highly parallel workloads, or mission-critical workflows.
Free plan Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted8.0 Visit Specs - 16
jBPM jBPM may suit Java teams building business-process services that need BPMN execution, human tasks, decisions and durable workflows.
Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux8.0 Visit Specs - 17
Restate It suits developers building services, workflows, and AI agents that need resumable execution and operational controls.
From $75/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted8.0 Visit Specs - 18
AWS Step Functions It suits teams orchestrating data processing, machine learning, microservices, or IT and security automation in AWS.
Free plan Web · API7.9 Visit Specs - 19 dagster-slurm Free plan macOS · Linux · API · Self-hosted7.9 Visit Specs
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Keboola Keboola suits teams building data pipelines for analytics and integrations, including those needing connectors, transformations, governance, or cloud deployment choices.
From $0.14/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted7.9 Visit Specs - 21 Prefect
Prefect suits Python-based data, machine-learning and agent teams that need scheduling, retries and execution visibility.
From $100/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted7.9 Visit Specs - 22 Luigi
Luigi suits Python users coordinating long-running batch workflows with defined dependencies.
Free plan Web · Linux · API · Self-hosted7.8 Visit Specs - 23
Temporal Temporal suits developers building workflows that need to survive failures or run for extended periods.
From $50/mo Free trial Web · Windows · macOS · Linux7.8 Visit Specs - 24 Workflow Engine
It suits .NET teams that need to embed business workflows in an application and host them on-premises or in their own cloud.
From $666.67/mo Free plan Web · Windows · macOS · Linux7.8 Visit Specs - 25 Azkaban Web · Windows · macOS · Linux7.7 Visit Specs
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Conductor Conductor is aimed at developers who build workers and tasks in a programming language.
Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted7.7 Visit Specs - 27 Trigger.dev
It suits developers building long-running TypeScript or Python workflows, AI agents, and scheduled tasks.
From $10/mo Free plan Web · API · Self-hosted7.7 Visit Specs - 28 YAWL Free plan Windows · macOS · Linux · API7.4 Visit Specs
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Appian Case Management Web · iOS · Android7.3 Visit Specs - 30 SAP Extended Enterprise Content Management by OpenText Web · Windows · macOS · Linux7.3 Visit Specs