Astral vs Ghostscript
AstralDeveloper Tools
Open sourcePublished price
GhostscriptDeveloper Tools
Astral Developer Tools Fast Python tooling for modern engineering teams. | Ghostscript Developer Tools The #1 PDF Conversion Tool and SDK Available Today | |
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| Overview | ||
| Category | Developer Tools | Developer Tools |
| What it is | Astral builds modern Python tooling like Ruff and uv to improve developer speed, consistency, and dependency workflows. | Artifex's open-source PostScript and PDF interpreter with SaaS API for PDF conversion and manipulation. |
| Pricing | ||
| Published price | Open source Astral's shipped products, Ruff (linter/formatter) and uv (package/project manager), are free and open source (MIT/Apache 2.0). The company is VC-backed and has not launched a pai… | Dual-licensed by Artifex: free and open source under GNU AGPLv3 (fully functional), or a paid commercial license for those who cannot meet AGPL copyleft. The commercial license is… |
| Pricing model | Free | Not available |
| Free options | Free plan · No free trial | Free plan · No free trial |
| Deal on Cubbie | None right now | None right now |
| Company | ||
| Founded | 2022 | 1988 |
| Team size | 11-50 employees | 51-200 employees |
| Headquarters | Brooklyn, NY | Novato, CA |