Dagger

Free allowance: The engine is open source and runs locally; the cloud runs the same pipelines, with no plan or price on this page
Verdict: self-hosted, last resortverdict qualifies-with-caveat: usable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
Cost: free tier
Identity: email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit: write-gatedno plan or price is published; the local engine is free and the cloud path is priced elsewhere
Evidence: documented5 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05

Free tier	the engine is open source and runs locally; the cloud runs the same pipelines, with no plan or price on this page unit none; metered on none
Price	none stated
Limits	write-gated (binding) no plan or price is published; the local engine is free and the cloud path is priced elsewhere source not stated
Identity	email (placeholder) not published
Egress	Cloud usage pricing bills pipeline outputs (pushed container images and container egress) at 10 cents per GB for new work and 2 cents per GB for repeat work; no free allowance is stated; plans are Starter USD 20 a month and Scale USD 200 a month, billed at the higher of plan price or usage price per tb: USD 100 per TB for new work, USD 20 per TB for repeat work
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	not stated
Interface	cli the dagger CLI, with modules and SDKs in Go, Python, TypeScript, Java, PHP, Elixir and Rust; engine selectable as cloud, local container, tcp, tls, ssh or kube-pod; no SDK term in the interface vocabulary
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Evidence note	documented the site was read on 2026-10-22 and describes a portable pipeline engine that a user can run locally or in the vendor's cloud. It publishes no plan or price, so the free half is the software rather than capacity
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1

Evidence 5

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-02	dagger.io	not published
2026-10-22	dagger.io	'Dagger is the missing software stack for CI. It makes your pipelines faster and more repeatable, not by throwing bigger machines at them, but by replacing artisanal scripts with a clean API' and 'run it locally or let our cloud scale it out', quoted
2026-11-03	dagger.io/pricing	pipeline outputs (container egress) cost 10 cents per GB for new work and 2 cents per GB for repeat work
2026-11-03	docs.dagger.io/reference/cli	the dagger CLI is the main interface
2026-11-03	dagger.io	modules are written against language SDKs

More fields 5

keep rate basis	no field in the source
billing model	unclassified
session cap	`{"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "a pipeline is a DAG of cached steps; there is no machine to keep alive"}`
free tier kind	allowance
ps	`{"gib": null,"price": "all cached automatically","durability": "content-addressed cache","on_stop": true,"on_destroy": false,"retention": "while the cache is kept"}`

Unknown values 7