Astral vs Scalar
AstralDeveloper Tools
Open sourcePublished price
ScalarDeveloper Experience Platforms
Astral Developer Tools Fast Python tooling for modern engineering teams. | Scalar Developer Experience Platforms Modern API docs, testing, and clients. | |
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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. | Scalar provides a modern toolkit for API documentation, request testing, and developer-facing API experiences built around OpenAPI. |
| 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… | Scalar does not publish a citable numeric price on its current public vendor pages. Pricing is handled through sales, a quote request, or account-specific terms. |
| Pricing model | Free | Tiered plans |
| Free options | Free plan · No free trial | Free plan · Free trial |
| Deal on Cubbie | None right now | None right now |
| Company | ||
| Founded | 2022 | 2017 |
| Team size | 11-50 employees | Not available |
| Headquarters | Brooklyn, NY | Tokyo, Japan |