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Dagger vs Tekton: catalog facts
Dagger	Tekton
Freemium The engine is open source; an optional Dagger cloud service runs pipelines for you.	Free Free and open source.
Command line	Self-hosted, Command line
Same pipeline runs locally and in CI Automatic caching and end-to-end tracing	Pipelines defined as Kubernetes resources Works across cloud providers and on-premise clusters
Requires rewriting existing CI scripts Some features depend on the Dagger cloud service	Requires a Kubernetes cluster A framework to build CI/CD on, not a ready-made hosted service
Downloadable app, Hosted service	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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