Detailed comparison across 10 dimensions
Astronomer and Apache Airflow score closely across Staquest's six weighted dimensions, with no decisive overall winner. Apache Airflow has a free tier; Astronomer does not.
| Overview | ||
|---|---|---|
| Type | saas tool | saas tool |
| Company | Astronomer | - |
| Free Tier | ||
| Has API | ||
| Open Source | ||
| Learning Curve | - | steep |
| Integration | - | high |
| Trending | Stable | Stable |
| GitHub Stars | - | - |
| Industries | Data & AnalyticsDevelopmentCybersecurity & InfoSecSales & CRMSaaS & Cloud | Data & AnalyticsSaaS & Cloud |
| Categories | data-engineering | devopsdata-engineering |
| Website | Visit | Visit |
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| Feature | astronomer | apache-airflow |
|---|---|---|
| 24/7 Committer-Led Support | ||
| Dynamic Pipeline Generation | ||
| 24X5 Support Availability | ||
| Extensible Framework With 1000+ Providers | ||
| 24X7 Support Availability (1 Hour Sla) | ||
| Rich Web-Based Monitoring Ui | ||
| Ai-Powered Dag Authoring & Debugging | ||
| Robust Scheduling And Execution Semantics | ||
| Air-Gapped Deployment Support | ||
| Scalable Distributed Architecture | ||
| Api Access | ||
| Workflows As Code (Python) | ||
| Audit Logging (7-Day Retention) | ||
| Audit Logging (90-Day Retention) | ||
| Ci/Cd Enforcement | ||
| Cross-Region Disaster Recovery (Add-On) | ||
| Custom Rbac | ||
| Deployment Isolation | ||
| Deployment Rollbacks | ||
| Dynamic Resources Management | ||
| End-To-End Observability & Data Quality | ||
| Enterprise Sso Integration | ||
| Flexible, Scale-To-Zero Compute | ||
| Hibernating Deployments | ||
| High Availability Deployments | ||
| Houston Api Access | ||
| In-Place Airflow Upgrades | ||
| Ip Access List | ||
| Manage Deployments Across Multiple Clusters And Regions | ||
| Network Isolation With Dedicated Clusters |
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Dashes mean the feature isn't listed in our data. The tool may still support it.
Apache Airflow offers a free tier; Astronomer does not currently list one.
Apache Airflow is open source. The feature comparison and dimension scores above cover the full breakdown.
