TCO calculator
Discover your savings with Astronomer.
Whether you're optimizing Airflow and dbt pipelines, building for agentic AI, consolidating fragmented DataOps tooling, or modernizing legacy workflows, Astronomer can save your organization time and money.
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Better Price / Performance
Professional sports team moving from Airflow to Astro
75%
Savings
Typical cost savings after modernizing from legacy schedulers to Astro.
97%
Time Reduction
An AdTech’s data products deployment after adopting Astro Observe
Where you save with Astro
Developer Productivity
Slash manual pipeline work and speed release velocity.
Operational Efficiency
Auto-scale resources and lower MTTR.
DataOps Consolidation
Replace siloed tools, optimize warehouse spend, and boost data quality.

21 Ways Astro Cuts Cost, Complexity, and Time
Build Data Products
Astro IDE
Ship Airflow pipelines in minutes, not days. The only AI-native IDE for data engineers auto-generates, tests, and debugs DAGs using context from your code, configs, and observability metadata.
Astro CLI
Streamline local pipeline development. Developers run and debug Airflow DAGs locally previewing changes instantly without consuming shared infrastructure or waiting on deploys.
Branch-Based Deploys
Accelerate testing and improve code quality with lower overhead. Spin up isolated dev environments to run, test, and deploy pipeline branches safely without affecting production or maintaining long-lived staging infrastructure.
CI/CD
Cut manual release effort and risk. Automate reliable code deployment, enforce reviews, promote code across environments, and ensure testing. Integrated with your favorite tools.
Run Data Products
Central Connection Management
Reduce setup time and eliminate licensing costs. A centralized secrets backend manages all credentials across deployments, avoiding duplication and cutting reliance on external vaults.
Hypervisor Autoscaling Infrastructure
Maximize throughput while lowering compute costs. Purpose-built engine dynamically right-sizes resources and doubles Airflow task execution, delivering more performance per core without manual tuning.
Scale-to-Zero Deployments
Eliminate idle infrastructure costs. Non-production environments automatically hibernate when inactive, reducing spend to zero during off-hours.
Dynamic Workers
Match capacity to demand: no overprovisioning. Worker nodes scale up and down automatically, ensuring you only pay for the compute you use.
Task-Optimized Worker Queues
Run tasks efficiently and eliminate waste. Separate queues for heavy and light workloads prevent over-provisioning, optimizing resource usage and reducing cloud CPU and memory costs.
Event-Driven Scheduling
Cut compute costs and enable real-time data workflows. Event-driven pipelines eliminate constant polling and rigid schedules, triggering instantly on data arrival to save resources.
Remote Execution Agents
Reduce cloud spend with flexible workload placement. Run compute-heavy tasks or sensitive data pipelines on lower-cost infrastructure whether on-prem, in GPUs or in cheaper cloud regions. Minimize egress fees and avoid premium pricing.
Multi-Zone High Availability
Prevent zone‑level outages and missed SLAs. Replicated schedulers, DAG processors, and web servers run across multiple nodes and zones, keeping pipelines active even if one zone fails.
In-Place Upgrades + Deployment Rollbacks
Reduce downtime and engineering overhead during upgrades. In-place Airflow upgrades and instant rollbacks let teams update environments without rebuilds and recover from failed deployments. Minimize outages, maintenance windows, and effort.
dbt Orchestration with Cosmos
Eliminate redundant tooling and lower platform costs. Runs dbt projects natively in Airflow with 10 lines of code. Gain full control over transformations in a single, scalable orchestration layer and saving hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Observe Data Products
DataOps Consolidation
Cut tooling costs and simplify your data stack. Replace fragmented observability, lineage, quality, and cost tools with a single platform. Eliminate redundant licenses, integration effort, and brittle custom glue code.
Unified Asset Catalog + Popularity Scores
Optimize spend by focusing on high-value data. Table popularity scores highlight the most-used assets so teams can prioritize storage, caching, and quality efforts where they deliver the greatest return.
SLA Monitoring & Proactive Alerting
Avoid SLA breaches and costly emergency reruns. Custom alerts flag freshness and latency risks early so teams can intervene before issues escalate and disrupt downstream data products.
End-to-End Lineage & Pipeline Visibility
Accelerate root cause analysis and avoid rework. Task-level lineage shows exactly how data flows across pipelines, making it easy to trace issues, assess impact, and prevent unnecessary recomputations.
AI Log Summaries
Faster incident resolution. Generates instant, plain-language root-cause reports, compressing MTTR and the costly engineer hours that go with it.
Data Quality Monitoring
Catch bad data early and prevent downstream failures. Inline checks for volume, schema, and completeness run with pipeline context, making it easy to trace issues and avoid expensive reprocessing.
Data Warehouse Cost Management
Cut platform costs with pipeline-level attribution. Usage and spend are mapped directly to DAGs, tasks, and assets so teams can detect anomalies, uncover trends, and eliminate waste tied to specific workflows.
Frequently Asked Questions
How does the TCO calculator work?
The calculator estimates your 3-year total cost of ownership by analyzing inputs like developer time, incident rates, and data stack costs. It uses benchmarked assumptions and real-world savings data from Astro customers. All inputs can be adjusted, so you can reflect your own environment and generate estimates relevant to your business.
What information do I need to use the TCO Calculator?
You'll get instant results using the built-in defaults. For a more tailored estimate, you can input approximate numbers that reflect your current setup. For example, how many releases you have per month, and how much time developers spend per release process. No detailed financials or technical specs required.
Can this calculator help me estimate TCO for Airflow or dbt optimization?
Yes. The calculator models cost and productivity gains from optimizing both Airflow and dbt. It captures savings from reduced pipeline maintenance, faster releases, and retiring standalone dbt tooling—giving you a clear view of the benefits of consolidating on a unified DataOps platform.
What savings can I expect with Astronomer?
While actual results vary by environment, customers commonly see up to 75% lower total cost of ownership over three years. Savings come from reduced engineering effort, faster pipeline delivery, lower incident rates, and the elimination of redundant tools—adding up to a more efficient, scalable DataOps operation.
How does Astronomer reduce observability and monitoring costs?
Astronomer consolidates observability into a single, pipeline-aware system with Astro Observe—eliminating the need for standalone tools and manual integration. With task-level insights, built-in lineage, data quality checks, and proactive alerting, teams can detect and resolve issues faster without maintaining custom dashboards or 24/7 support. Customers report up to 450% ROI within 90 days and a reduction in data product deployment lead times from days to 10 minutes by replacing fragmented monitoring stacks and freeing engineers from constant firefighting.
How can I schedule a full cost assessment with the Astronomer team?
We're happy to help you run a personalized cost assessment. Just send our team a message using the Contact Astronomer form.