Astral vs Lexical
AstralDeveloper Tools
Open sourcePublished price
LexicalDeveloper Experience Platforms
Free open sourcePublished price
Astral Developer Tools Fast Python tooling for modern engineering teams. | Lexical Developer Experience Platforms A text editor framework that does things differently | |
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| Overview | ||
| Category | Developer Tools | Developer Experience Platforms |
| What it is | Astral builds modern Python tooling like Ruff and uv to improve developer speed, consistency, and dependency workflows. | Open-source extensible rich-text editor framework from Meta offering pluggable architecture and strong accessibility. |
| 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… | Free open source Lexical provides a free or open-source offering. No paid numeric starting price was confirmed on the current public product materials; commercial or hosted terms should be confirm… |
| Pricing model | Free | Free |
| Free options | Free plan · No free trial | Free plan · Free trial |
| Deal on Cubbie | None right now | None right now |
| Company | ||
| Founded | 2022 | 2022 |
| Team size | 11-50 employees | 10,000+ employees |
| Headquarters | Brooklyn, NY | Menlo Park, CA |