Our take
Pick Dagger if platform teams who will run the OSS engine at $0 while they write a first function, then start Starter’s Try for free and land on $20/month (1 user, 1-month traces) — or Scale at $200/month when they need unlimited users and 1-year traces. Pick Windmill if platform teams who will run Community Edition at $0 (≤50 users, 3 workspaces) and only buy EE when they need SAML, audit, or more than 10 SSO users.
portable CI desk
Best for
Dagger A pipeline you start at $20
Windmill Scripts → endpoints / workflows / UIs you can self-host
Free plan
Dagger No free plan
Windmill $0 · /month. Unlimited executions. 3 workspaces. Max 50 users. 10 SSO users. 4 groups. 10 GiB object storage. 100 email triggers/day. 100 app guests / 30 days. Discord support
Lowest paid
Dagger Starter $20/mo
Windmill Enterprise Edition $20/mo
Next step up
Dagger Scale $200/mo
Windmill Compute units $100/mo
Runs where
Dagger Hosted
Windmill Local; you host it
Watch out
Dagger $20 is 1 user and 1-month traces
Windmill Community caps SSO at 10 and workspaces at 3
Last checked
Dagger 2026-10-22 · dagger.io/pricing
Windmill 2026-10-22 · windmill.dev/pricing
platform teams who will run the OSS engine at $0 while they write a first function, then start Starter’s Try for free and land on $20/month (1 user, 1-month traces) — or Scale at $200/month when they need unlimited users and 1-year traces.
Read the Dagger pageplatform teams who will run Community Edition at $0 (≤50 users, 3 workspaces) and only buy EE when they need SAML, audit, or more than 10 SSO users.
Read the Windmill page