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Apache Airflow
★ 38kThe most widely deployed workflow orchestrator, defining data pipelines as Python DAGs.
Apache Airflow does the job of Astronomer, self-hosted. It is Apache-2.0-licensed, so you can do essentially what you like with it, and running it properly takes real ops work. Astronomer bills $100+ for it. 38k stars on GitHub.
Open-source replacement for Astronomer.
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Self-hosting
- Hard
- The paid one costs
- $100+
- GitHub stars
- 38k
Is it actually a replacement?
We have not written a verdict on Astronomer yet, so this page says what Apache Airflow is rather than judging what you would give up. When that product gets a page, this one will link to it.
Apache Airflow questions
Is Apache Airflow open source?
Yes — it is released under Apache-2.0.
Can I self-host Apache Airflow?
Yes — we rate it hard to self-host.