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Apache DolphinSchedulerApache Airflow
Free

Free and open source as an Apache Software Foundation project.

 Free

Free and open source, developed as an Apache Software Foundation project.

Self-hosted Web, Self-hosted
  • Visual DAG editor for defining job dependencies
  • Distributed design for spreading work across machines
  • Workflows are plain Python, so tasks can be generated dynamically
  • Web UI with status and logs for every task run
  • Requires running and maintaining your own server deployment
  • Aimed at data pipelines and backend jobs, not desktop automation
  • Requires Python knowledge to define workflows
  • You run and maintain the scheduler, workers and web server yourself
Self-hosted Self-hosted
Open source Open source
License: Apache-2.0 License: Apache-2.0
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Checked October 2, 2026

Checked September 23, 2026

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