3 categories · RankedDagster
Dagster is a DataOps platform for orchestrating data workflows, with a focus on data assets and observability · dagster.io ↗
Strongest at mid-market. Ranked 6 of 98 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Make is first at 33%.
Prefect is first at 25%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Apache Airflow is first at 29%.
Why models recommend it
“Winner: Dagster (or Prefect) ... Dagster Cloud or Prefect Cloud are the top recommendations over traditional Apache Airflow.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“Start with Dagster (specifically Dagster Plus/Apache Dagster) if you are building a greenfield stack today.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Prefect or Dagster strike a good balance between ease of use, scalability, and observability”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Dagster — Modern, developer-friendly, software-defined assets, better observability”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Many current open core tools like Kestra and Dagster keep essential enterprise features ... locked behind their enterprise versions.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“These are orchestrators, not complete extraction and loading platforms.”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Dagster has a younger ecosystem with fewer integrations than Airflow”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Dagster, over the 153 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 144 | 43 | Compare → | |
| 137 | 24 | Compare → | |
| 74 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 47 | 0 | View → | |
| 42 | 4 | Compare → | |
| 41 | 1 | View → | |
| 38 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 38 | 0 | View → | |
| 37 | 1 | View → | |
| 36 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Dagster →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Dagster's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- engineers
- Price stated
- free tier
- Starting price
- $10
- Free plan or trial
- Get started for free; free 30 day trial
- Integrations
- 200
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA
- Hosting
- Cloud, on-prem, hybrid, EU
- Customers named
- Flo Energy, Magenta Telekom, smava, Ayersio Services Limited, Chainalysis
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 121 of the 153 answers that named Dagster and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
283 of the 283 domain citations in answers naming Dagster came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glossary or explainer | 733 | 0 | 2024-05-17 | ||
| Report or ebook | 215 | 1 | 2026-09-08 | Data warehouses | |
| Blog | 186 | 6 | 2026-09-17 | ||
| Conference or event | 58 | undated | |||
| Case study | 33 | 1 | 2026-08-04 | ||
| Comparison | 12 | 1 | 2026-09-08 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | 0 | 2026-04-02 | ||
| News or press | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-17The data plane is yours dagster hybrid on kubernetes and azure blog
- 2026-09-08Dagster vs airflow comparison
- 2026-09-08How to build data platforms ebook report or ebook
- 2026-08-12Community showcase part 3 blog
- 2026-08-12Orchestration is more than scheduling declarative automation in dagster blog
- 2026-08-04Flo energys data platform for critical energy data case study
Events in person
- November 30, 2026AWS re:Invent 2026Las Vegas · attends
As the event pages on dagster.io state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page dagster.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.