Dagster pricing guide details
Pricing Overview
Dagster’s pricing page lists three plans: Solo, Starter, and Pro. Solo is listed at $10 per month for personal projects and simple pipelines. It includes one user, one code location, and one deployment. Starter is listed at $100 per month for small teams running production pipelines; it supports up to three users, five code locations, one deployment, and Catalog Search. Both plans include a 30-day free trial.
Solo and Starter use a pay-as-you-go model rather than a monthly allocation of included credits. Solo adds $0.040 per credit, while Starter adds $0.035 per credit. Dagster defines a credit as the sum of asset materializations and executed ops. Each asset materialized counts as one credit, including software-defined assets and materialization events logged from an op. Each executed op also counts as one credit, whether it runs in a job or as part of an underlying asset.
Serverless compute is listed at $0.010 per minute on Solo and Starter. The pricing FAQ says there is no compute charge when using Hybrid. Buyers evaluating these plans should account separately for the monthly plan charge, credit usage, and—where applicable—serverless compute minutes. The public Solo and Starter plan details do not list bundled monthly credit allowances.
Pro is presented for building and scaling an enterprise data platform. Its public plan card says “Contact Sales” rather than showing a public price. Listed Pro capabilities include custom serverless compute, unlimited code locations, unlimited deployments, cost tracking and insights, personalized onboarding support, a private Slack channel, uptime SLAs, and custom security questionnaires. The page also says customized purchase structures for annual payment or credit purchases are available to Pro customers through Dagster’s team.
Plan Comparison
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| Plan | Published price and billing | Published limits and included details |
|---|---|---|
| Solo | $10 per month, plus $0.040 per credit and $0.010 per serverless compute minute | 1 user, 1 code location, 1 deployment, and a 30-day free trial |
| Starter | $100 per month, plus $0.035 per credit and $0.010 per serverless compute minute | Up to 3 users, 5 code locations, 1 deployment, Catalog Search, and a 30-day free trial |
| Pro | Contact Sales; no public price is listed | Custom serverless compute, unlimited code locations, unlimited deployments, cost tracking and insights, personalized onboarding support, private Slack channel, uptime SLAs, and custom security questionnaires |
Solo and Starter share core orchestration capabilities on Dagster’s plan comparison, including asset-based orchestration, workflow-based orchestration, a local development workflow using the dg CLI, Components, Declarative Automation, partitions and backfills, and branch deployments. Virtual assets, Dagster MCP server, and Dagster skills for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex are marked Preview or open source as shown in the plan comparison.
The published comparison also lists asset checks, freshness policies, integration with dbt tests, asset health status, asset metadata in the UI, and asset-level lineage. Starter adds Catalog Search; Data Column Lineage is shown in the comparison. Platform and pipeline metrics have a 30-day lookback and include materialization success rate, failure count, and step execution time. The page lists metrics-based alerts and custom metrics from asset metadata, while cost tracking for BigQuery and Snowflake is shown for Pro.
For access and deployment decisions, the comparison lists role-based access control, with Starter scoped per deployment and Pro offering granular roles per project. SAML, SCIM provisioning for Okta and Entra ID, audit logs, serverless deployments, hybrid deployments for ECS, Kubernetes, Docker, Azure, and local environments, Terraform and Pulumi providers, agent queues, EU data residency, and SIEM log export appear in the plan comparison. Confirm the feature’s plan column with Dagster when it is material to a purchase.
Hidden Costs and Considerations
The displayed Solo and Starter amounts are starting monthly plan charges, not fixed all-in totals. Solo is $10 per month plus $0.040 per credit; Starter is $100 per month plus $0.035 per credit. Since a credit is the sum of asset materializations and ops executed, usage changes with the number of those events. Dagster specifies that every asset materialized counts as one credit, including software-defined assets and materialization events logged from an op, and that every executed op counts as one credit. A budget should therefore distinguish the plan charge from the credit charge.
Serverless usage can add another component. Dagster lists serverless compute at $0.010 per minute for Solo and Starter. The FAQ says Hybrid has no compute charge. That statement is limited to Dagster’s compute charge: buyers should establish whether their selected deployment mode is Serverless or Hybrid before estimating Dagster charges. The page does not present Solo or Starter as plans with a fixed 7,500-credit or 30,000-credit monthly allowance, so those quantities should not be treated as included usage.
Feature scope is another purchase consideration. Starter lists up to three users, five code locations, one deployment, and Catalog Search; Solo lists one user, one code location, and one deployment. The plan comparison describes Starter RBAC as per deployment and Pro roles as granular per project. Pro also lists SAML, SCIM provisioning for Okta and Entra ID, audit logs, custom security questionnaires, uptime SLAs, and a dedicated private Slack channel in its plan material.
Pro does not show a public price: its card directs buyers to contact sales. The public page identifies custom serverless compute and unlimited code locations and deployments, but it does not disclose a Pro monthly price, credit rate, currency-independent commitment, or a complete pricing formula. Buyers considering Pro should request the plan price, serverless-compute terms, credit-purchase structure, support terms, and the exact access, governance, and deployment features required. Solo and Starter have a 30-day free trial, which can be used to observe credit and serverless-minute usage before a paid commitment.
Cost Estimates by Team Size
Dagster’s public pricing supports plan-based estimates, but not a reliable total estimate by team size alone. The monthly plan charge and user limits are published, while credit usage depends on asset materializations and executed ops, and Serverless adds a per-minute compute charge. A team should estimate these inputs from its own pipeline activity rather than assume that headcount determines the bill.
Individual builder: Solo is listed at $10 per month for personal projects and simple pipelines. It includes one user, one code location, and one deployment. The published usage charge is $0.040 per credit. If the team uses Dagster Serverless, compute is listed at $0.010 per minute; Hybrid has no Dagster compute charge according to the pricing FAQ. The public page offers a 30-day free trial, allowing an individual builder to observe the relevant usage measures before paying.
Small production team: Starter is listed at $100 per month for small teams running production pipelines. It supports up to three users, five code locations, one deployment, and Catalog Search. Its published usage charge is $0.035 per credit, with Serverless compute listed at $0.010 per minute. The plan’s public price is not a per-user price: it is the plan’s monthly charge, with the listed user limit and usage-based charges. For a useful internal estimate, record expected asset materializations, executed ops, and Serverless minutes separately.
Teams requiring broader platform capabilities: Pro is the public option for building and scaling an enterprise data platform. It lists unlimited code locations and deployments, custom Serverless compute, cost tracking and insights, personalized onboarding support, a private Slack channel, uptime SLAs, and custom security questionnaires. Dagster directs prospective Pro customers to contact sales, and the page does not list a public Pro price or a public usage rate. A Pro estimate therefore requires a quote that identifies the plan charge, the applicable compute arrangement, purchase structure for credits, and needed access and support terms.
The pricing page supports comparison of published plan charges and usage rates, but it does not provide a fixed cost for a given number of engineers. The same team can produce different credit usage depending on the materializations and ops it executes.
How Dagster Pricing Compares
Dagster’s public page describes a three-plan structure with published entry plans and a sales-led Pro plan. Solo is $10 per month and Starter is $100 per month. Both use pay-as-you-go credits: $0.040 per credit for Solo and $0.035 per credit for Starter. Each includes a 30-day free trial. This structure makes the published base charge only one part of the buying decision, because credit consumption follows asset materializations and executed ops.
For an apples-to-apples internal comparison of Dagster plans, start with the published limits. Solo lists one user, one code location, and one deployment. Starter lists up to three users, five code locations, one deployment, and Catalog Search. Both list Serverless compute at $0.010 per minute. The pricing FAQ states that Hybrid has no compute charge, so deployment mode matters when evaluating the Serverless line item.
The feature comparison adds a second decision layer. Core orchestration, asset-based orchestration, workflow-based orchestration, local development with the dg CLI, Components, Declarative Automation, partitions, backfills, and branch deployments are listed in the plan comparison. Starter’s listed collaboration and catalog additions include Catalog Search and a deployment-scoped RBAC scope. The comparison also identifies Pro capabilities such as granular roles per project, SAML, SCIM provisioning for Okta and Entra ID, audit logs, agent queues, EU data residency, SIEM log export, and cost tracking for BigQuery and Snowflake.
Pro is not suitable for a direct public-price comparison because Dagster’s pricing page says “Contact Sales” and does not list a public price. Its published plan details include custom Serverless compute, unlimited code locations and deployments, personalized onboarding support, a private Slack channel, uptime SLAs, and custom security questionnaires. Buyers needing those capabilities should obtain the specific Pro quote and confirm its price, credit arrangement, serverless-compute terms, and support scope.
The page does not provide pricing or feature evidence for other products, so a reliable cross-vendor price comparison cannot be made from Dagster’s pricing information alone. A practical Dagster evaluation is to use the 30-day trial and measure the asset materializations, executed ops, and, if applicable, Serverless minutes that would determine usage charges.