Pick Mage if
solo data engineers who will use the 7-day trial (no card), then buy Starter at $29/month + $0.50/CPU-hour when they want 50 AI credits and one managed environment.
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Our take
Pick Mage if solo data engineers who will use the 7-day trial (no card), then buy Starter at $29/month + $0.50/CPU-hour when they want 50 AI credits and one managed environment. 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.
Mage
**pipeline desk
Best for
Mage Managed orchestration plus $0.50 CPU-hours
Windmill Scripts → endpoints / workflows / UIs you can self-host
Free plan
Mage 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
Mage Extra AI $0.12
Windmill Enterprise Edition $20/mo
Next step up
Mage Starter $29/mo
Windmill Compute units $100/mo
Runs where
Mage
Windmill Local; you host it
Watch out
Mage $29 does not include compute
Windmill Community caps SSO at 10 and workspaces at 3
Last checked
Mage 2026-10-22 · mage.ai/pricing
Windmill 2026-10-22 · windmill.dev/pricing
Which one, then?
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.
Read the Windmill page