Data Pipelines Tools

Best Data Pipelines tools by public signals

These picks are computed from scored public evidence. Use the openness column in the ranking to separate OSI-approved, source-available, open-core, proprietary, and unverified-license tools.

Best overallDagster100 score License-safe pickDagsterOSI-approved OSS Fastest shippingDagster100 shipping

Use Case Rankings

Ordered by ToolVitals score, health, shipping, confidence, and then adoption as a tie-breaker.

#	Tool	Health	Shipping	Openness	Stars	Score	Status
01	Dagster An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.	100	100	OSI-approved OSS	15.9k	100	Active
02	dbt dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications.	100	100	OSI-approved OSS	13.5k	100	Active
03	CocoIndex Incremental engine for long horizon agents 🌟 Star if you like it!	95	100	OSI-approved OSS	11.1k	98	Active
04	MLRun MLRun is an open source MLOps platform for quickly building and managing continuous ML applications across their lifecycle. MLRun integrates into your development and CI/CD environment and automates the delivery of production data, ML pipelines, and online applications.	93	100	OSI-approved OSS	1.7k	97	Active
05	Benthos Data streaming processor with yaml-driven pipeline configuration	95	94	License unknown	8.7k	96	Active
06	Unstract LLM-Driven Extraction of Unstructured Data — Built for API Deployments & ETL Pipeline Workflows	96	89	OSI-approved OSS	7k	95	Active
07	Apache Airflow Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows	93	95	OSI-approved OSS	46.3k	95	Active
08	CloudQuery Data pipelines for cloud config and security data. Build cloud asset inventory, CSPM, FinOps, and vulnerability management solutions. Extract from AWS, Azure, GCP, and 70+ cloud and SaaS sources.	87	95	OSI-approved OSS	6.5k	93	Active
09	Apache DevLake Apache DevLake is an open-source dev data platform to ingest, analyze, and visualize the fragmented data from DevOps tools, extracting insights for engineering excellence, developer experience, and community growth.	92	78	OSI-approved OSS	3.1k	90	Active
10	PRQL PRQL is a modern language for transforming data — a simple, powerful, pipelined SQL replacement	80	78	OSI-approved OSS	10.9k	85	Active
11	Pathway Python ETL framework for stream processing, real-time analytics, LLM pipelines, and RAG.	78	77	License unknown	62.6k	83	Active
12	Airbyte The leading data integration platform for ETL / ELT data pipelines from APIs, databases & files to data warehouses, data lakes & data lakehouses. Both self-hosted and Cloud-hosted.	78	69	License unknown	21.7k	79	Active
13	Multiwoven Open-source reverse ETL and customer data sync platform.	79	49	OSI-approved OSS	1.7k	73	Warning
14	Arroyo Distributed stream processing engine in Rust	69	41	OSI-approved OSS	5k	66	Warning
15	Mage 🧙 Build, run, and manage data pipelines for integrating and transforming data.	71	21	OSI-approved OSS	8.8k	63	Warning
16	dbmazz CDC, radically simplified. One Rust binary for source-to-target data movement.	59	30	License unknown	14	59	Warning
17	SyncMaven Open-source reverse-ETL and data activation platform.	31	0	License unknown	22	36	Critical
18	cptn.io Open-source platform for building and deploying integrations and data pipelines.	33	0	OSI-approved OSS	493	35	Critical
19	Ploomber The fastest ⚡️ way to build data pipelines. Develop iteratively, deploy anywhere. ☁️	18	0	OSI-approved OSS	3.6k	31	Critical
20	Grouparoo Data synchronization framework	28	0	OSI-approved OSS	778	29	Critical

Evidence Watch

Tracked tools with useful public signals but no verdict score yet.

aisheets

Build, enrich, and transform datasets using AI models with no code

97 confidence

Altimate Code

Open-source agentic data engineering harness for dbt, SQL, and cloud warehouses.

100 confidence

AtroCore

Open-source data management and system integration platform.

90 confidence

Automate DV

dbt package for creating and loading Data Vault 2.0 compliant data warehouses.

81 confidence

Bruin

Data pipeline platform with SQL, Python, and quality checks.

95 confidence

Castled

Data synchronization framework focused on external apps

36 confidence

Debezium

Change data capture for a variety of databases. Please log issues at https://github.com/debezium/dbz/issues.

99 confidence

DocETL

Agentic LLM-powered data processing and ETL.

94 confidence

Documind

Open-source platform for extracting structured data from documents using AI.

88 confidence

Feldera

Incremental computation engine.

100 confidence

HPCC Systems

Open-source distributed data processing and analytics platform for large-scale data workflows.

94 confidence

HRFlow

🚀 Open source python repository of HR data Connectors.

100 confidence

Jitsu

Jitsu is an open-source Segment alternative. Fully-scriptable data ingestion engine for modern data teams. Set-up a real-time data pipeline in minutes, not days

100 confidence

Meltano

Meltano: the declarative code-first data integration engine that powers your wildest data and ML-powered product ideas. Say goodbye to writing, maintaining, and scaling your own API integrations.

100 confidence