ClearML vs Dagster

Which one do AI engines recommend, and how do they differ on price, fit and features?

The short answer

ClearML is the stronger AI pick in MLOps Platforms: it has a visibility score of 20.6 versus 0.7 for Dagster, and ranks ahead in 100% of the answers that name both.

Choose ClearML if…

You want the brand AI engines rank higher (20.6 vs 0.7)
You want a free plan to start
You need a self-hosted or on-premises option
Per seat pricing suits your budget better than usage-based

Choose Dagster if…

You want a lower entry price ($10 vs $15)
AI answers describe it more positively (50% vs 43% positive)
You need SOC 2 Type II or HIPAA coverage
You prefer a larger, established vendor (51–200 employees)

AI visibility side by side

Latest weekly run · Nov 2

Metric	ClearML	Dagster
Visibility score	20.6%	0.7%
Change vs last week	New	New
Rank in MLOps Platforms	#8	#40
Share of voice	4.5%	0.3%
Mentions this run	30	2
Positive in AI answers	43%	50%

The stronger value in each row is marked with a ✓.

Visibility score trend

Weekly runs over the last 60 days

ClearML 0pp · Dagster 0pp over 0 weekly runs.

Engine by engine

ClearML leads on 3 of 3 engines

ChatGPT

22.2%

AI Mode

14.3%

Perplexity

25.2%

2.2%

ClearMLDagster

Head to head in AI answers

1 engine answers name both brands

1ClearML ranked higher

0Dagster ranked higher

Prompt	Engine	ClearML	Dagster
Alternatives to the most popular MLOps platform	Perplexity	#3	#17

Features, pricing & fit

Dimension	ClearML	Dagster
Pricing model	Per seat	Usage-based
Entry price	Free; paid from $15 per seat / mo	$10 / mo
Free plan	Yes	No · 30-day trial
Deployment	Hosted servers, self-hosted, or a managed service in a VPC, on-premises (including air-gapped) or hybrid.	Serverless or hybrid deployment; under hybrid, compute runs in the customer's own infrastructure while Dagster manages the control plane.
Compliance	—	SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA
Support	Dedicated Slack channel (Scale), Standard SLA (Scale), White-glove support with custom SLA (Enterprise), Professional services (Enterprise)	Dagster community, Support Center and Ask AI, Billing support, Dedicated Slack or Microsoft Teams channel (Pro plan)
Founded	2016	2018
Headquarters	Tel Aviv, Israel	San Francisco, CA, United States
Employees	11–50	51–200
Funding	Series B (reported for parent Allegro AI, unverified, led by New Enterprise Associates) · $16M raised	Series B · $49M raised
Best for	Individuals, researchers and small teams on the free plan, growing AI teams on Pro, and enterprises running GPU clusters for multiple large projects.	Data teams running dbt, Snowflake and Python data pipelines who want lineage and health visibility across their stack.