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Tekton vs Dagger: catalog facts
Tekton	Dagger
Free Free and open source.	Freemium The engine is open source; an optional Dagger cloud service runs pipelines for you.
Self-hosted, Command line	Command line
Pipelines defined as Kubernetes resources Works across cloud providers and on-premise clusters	Same pipeline runs locally and in CI Automatic caching and end-to-end tracing
Requires a Kubernetes cluster A framework to build CI/CD on, not a ready-made hosted service	Requires rewriting existing CI scripts Some features depend on the Dagger cloud service
Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Hosted service
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License not stated
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 October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026

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