# Dagger

Official pricing: https://dagger.io  
Category: dev-env · Isolation: container

## Pricing regimes (raw)

- **Native product; see regime notes** (resource) [alt]
- **Cloud Engines (hosted, early access)** (resource) [beta, alt]

## Features

Yes: snapshots, persistent disk, volumes, ≥24 h sessions, custom image (Docker or snapshot), start from your own snapshot, your own Docker/OCI image, self-hosting, open source, SOC 2, SSO, arm64, Python, Node.js, MCP server, snapshots on demand, hosted agent API (their own agent), inbound access rules, extra volumes, shared volumes

No: memory snapshots, fork/clone, pause/resume, idle auto-stop, full VM (own kernel), Docker inside, nested virtualization, browser, desktop GUI, computer-use API, browser + desktop control, anti-bot stealth, CAPTCHA solving, preinstalled agents, SSH, public IPv4, HTTPS preview URLs, egress allowlist, static egress IP, BYOC, HIPAA, GPU, Windows, macOS, HTTP method/path egress rules, wake on request, live resize, live fork (no pause), memory fork, automatic snapshots, agent harness API, gVisor or VM (no shared kernel), firewall inside (nftables), secret proxy, secret proxy for any API

Unknown: everything else. Evidence (source + quote) per feature: https://battleships.dev/data/providers/dagger.json → feature_evidence

## Caveats

- Dagger Cloud plans (Individual free / Team $50 per month flat for up to 10 users / Enterprise custom) are 'EARLY ACCESS' observability + module-sharing plans capped by monthly telemetry events (1M / 10M). Hosted compute now exists separately as Cloud Engines (used by Cloud Checks, early access), metered in core minutes, but no price is published. The self-hosted engine is free.
- Inventory exclusion: CI engine/cloud observability, not hosted CPU. Card contains no numeric compute modes and no selectable price plan.
- Null values mean unknown, not free/unlimited. No model-token cost, tax or unverified ancillary charge included.
- Native browser/device/task/credit prices with unknown CPU/RAM are deliberately non-priceable. Check regime before interpreting any partial resource estimate.

## How this provider charges


YC: Winter 2019; directory status **Active**. Research scope: marginal-or-unavailable. Source: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dagger

Programmable CI engine + cloud observability

## Regime table

| Regime | When it applies | How billed | Numbers | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Native product; see regime notes | Incomplete or non-resource economics: rates remain null, never interpreted as free. | resource; CPU alloc, memory alloc | Unknown or native-unit billing; see facts below | https://dagger.io |
| Current applicable tariff unverified | Plan limits apply | Monthly fee; credits only as stated | fee=None; included usage=$None; concurrent=None; max session h=None | https://dagger.io |
| Retained disk / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://dagger.io |
| Snapshots / GiB-month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://dagger.io |
| Egress / GiB | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://dagger.io |
| IPv4 / month | Lifecycle/scope must be checked | Native add-on | unverified, not $0 | https://dagger.io |

## Verified billing facts and gotchas

1. Current public price is Individual free and Team $50/month up to 10 users for observability/module sharing, Enterprise custom. Does not establish included hosted runners. Engine runs OCI containers on your infrastructure; do not price hardware from telemetry subscription.
2. Inventory exclusion: CI engine/cloud observability, not hosted CPU. Card contains no numeric compute modes and no selectable price plan.

## Worked example

Requested: 4 vCPU/8 GiB, 50 simultaneous × 8 h/day × 22 days = **8,800 instance-hours**, 30% CPU; 50 GiB snapshots and 100 GiB egress. A month is 730 hours only when explicitly used in rate conversion.

**Total: unknown.** This product does not publish a verified complete 4-vCPU/8-GiB tariff and/or the service bills a different unit. Fifty concurrent instances and eight-hour sessions are not automatically supported. Neither 30% utilization nor retained snapshots can be converted into free resources. Use the native plan terms above and request the missing CPU/RAM, retention, egress and concurrency quote.

## Sources and coverage

- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dagger
- https://dagger.io/
- https://dagger.io/pricing/
- https://docs.dagger.io/getting-started/introduction/
- https://dagger.io/llms.txt

Page captures and documentation indexes/bundles are in `raw/`; provider JSON lists the evidence paths. HN query results were captured separately as `<id>--hn.txt`; they are discovery leads, not current tariff authority. Downloaded docs do not imply every feature was verified; unsupported assertions remain null.