Astral vs Sparkles
AstralDeveloper Tools
Open sourcePublished price
SparklesDeveloper Experience Platforms
From $20 / moPublished price
Astral Developer Tools Fast Python tooling for modern engineering teams. | Sparkles Developer Experience Platforms Make everyone on your team an engineer. | |
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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. | Sparkles is a YC W26 company that lowers the barrier to building software so non-technical team members can contribute to development. |
| 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… | From $20 / mo Tiered: Free, Pro ~$20/mo, Ultra ~$80/mo, plus Pilot and Enterprise custom plans. Paid tiers add higher usage/sandbox limits for AI-generated code changes and deploys. |
| Pricing model | Free | Tiered plans |
| Free options | Free plan · No free trial | Free plan · No free trial |
| Deal on Cubbie | None right now | None right now |
| Company | ||
| Founded | 2022 | 2025 |
| Team size | 11-50 employees | 1-10 employees |
| Headquarters | Brooklyn, NY | San Francisco, California |
| Featured clients | Not available | Product teams |