No. 3 of 30 ·Process Orchestration Software

Dapr

Windows · Mac · Linux · Self-hosted · API · paid plans from $1,199/mo

Freedom report

Three barsScore 6.6

Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely3 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

Dapr is ranked #3 of 30 in process orchestration software on Freedom251. It runs on API, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Windows. There is a free plan. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at $1,199/mo.

Dapr plans and pricing

All plans

Cloud Free Free development and non-critical workloads · durable workflows · native integrations · workflow visualizers diagrid.io · 1 Oct 2026

Dedicated Cloud $1,199/mo Starting price · first 14 days free single-tenant · fully managed · compute, storage and networking included · 99.95% availability with Select and Premium support diagrid.io · 1 Oct 2026

BYOC $1,599/mo Starting price · first 14 days free data plane in your cloud · control plane in Diagrid cloud · data sovereignty and localization · 99.95% availability diagrid.io · 1 Oct 2026

Enterprise Server Not published Priced for your deployment on-premises · air-gapped and disconnected environments supported · namespace isolation diagrid.io · 1 Oct 2026

Compared on process orchestration software

Free plan: No
Human tasks & approvals: Yes
Long-running workflows: Yes
Deployment model: self_hosted
Workflow versioning: Yes
Audit logs: Yes

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The record

Purpose: Dapr provides durable, verifiable execution so workflows and AI agents survive crashes, restarts, and outages.
Workflow: Dapr workflows support long-running, stateful processes with retries, timers, human approvals, and sagas.
AI agents: Dapr enables AI agents to reason, call tools, and recover from failure with checkpointed plans.
Microservices: Service-to-service calls include service discovery, mTLS, retries, and distributed tracing through one API.
Building blocks: Dapr provides APIs for workflow, service invocation, pub/sub, state, actors, jobs, secrets, configuration, bindings, distributed locks, and cryptography.
Security: Dapr security features are on by default and communication is automatically encrypted in transit with mTLS.
Resiliency: Dapr supports configurable retries, back-offs, circuit breakers, and timeouts.
Deployment: Dapr applications run on Kubernetes or self-hosted on virtual or physical machines across cloud and edge environments.
Integrations: Official integrations include AWS, Azure, KEDA, GitHub Actions, the Dapr Kubernetes Operator, Kratix Marketplace, and Argo CD.
SDK languages: Stable SDKs are available for .NET, Python, Java, Go, PHP, and JavaScript; C++ and Rust SDKs are in development.
CLI: The Dapr CLI runs applications with sidecars, reviews sidecar logs, and lists services in self-hosted and Kubernetes environments.
Security controls: Dapr supports App IDs, namespaces, access policies, topic scoping, mTLS, API tokens, and automatic certificate rotation.
Support: Diagrid provides enterprise support for open source Dapr across three tiers with response-time, security-patching, architecture-review, and training commitments.
Open source origin: Microsoft announced Dapr as an open source project on October 16, 2019.
Price from: $1,199/mo

Where it ranks on Freedom251

Best Process Orchestration Software in 2026#3 of 30

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Sources

dapr.io· checked 1 Oct 2026
docs.dapr.io/integrations/· checked 1 Oct 2026
docs.dapr.io/developing-applications/sdks/· checked 1 Oct 2026
docs.dapr.io/getting-started/install-dapr-cli/· checked 1 Oct 2026
docs.dapr.io/concepts/security-concept/· checked 1 Oct 2026
docs.dapr.io/enterprise-support/· checked 1 Oct 2026
opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2019/10/16/announcing-dapr-open-so· checked 1 Oct 2026
docs.dapr.io/overview/· checked 1 Oct 2026
cncf.io/projects/dapr/· checked 1 Oct 2026
diagrid.io/pricing· checked 1 Oct 2026