AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Duckle a drag-and-drop visual pipeline designer
Open-source ETL/ELT you deploy on your own servers or cloud. Built on DuckDB: no-code/low-code visual pipelines or SQL, 385 components, dbt, CDC, data quality, reverse ETL, lineage, MCP for AI agents. No vendor cloud, no per-row billing. - slothflowlabs/duckle
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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Duckle▲2Move data from anything, to anywhere, on your machine.
Jun 2026 · duckle.org · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! We’ve built Pretzel, an open-source data exploration and visualization tool that runs fully in the browser and can handle large files (200 MB CSV on my 8gb MacBook air is snappy). It’s also reactive - so if, for example, you change a filter, all the data transform blocks after it re-evaluate automatically. You can try it here: https://pretzelai.github.io/ (static hosted webpage) or see a demo video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73wNEun_L7w You can play with the demo CSV that’s pre-loaded (GitHub data of text-editor adjacent projects) or upload…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We’re Robin, Louis, and Thomas. Pipelex is a DSL and a Python runtime for repeatable AI workflows. Think Dockerfile/SQL for multi-step LLM pipelines: you declare steps and interfaces; any model/provider can fill them. Why this instead of yet another workflow builder? - Declarative, not glue code: you state what to do; the runtime figures out how. - Agent-first: each step carries natural-language context (purpose, inputs/outputs with meaning) so LLMs can follow, audit, and optimize. Our MCP server enables agents to run pipelines but also to build new pipelines on demand. - Open…
Oct 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Instill VDP▲130Open source unstructured data ETL for AI first applications
2024 · instill-ai.com · its alternatives →
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Flowlet▲275A low-code platform for connecting and providing APIs
2022 · flowlet.app · its alternatives →
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Boxes.devfree tier, from $19/mo▲112Hi HN, we’re Nick and Drew, and we’re building boxes.dev – the first cloud-only agentic dev environment (ADE) that gives every Codex and Claude Code agent its own cloud computer. We’re two engineers who previously built Gem (co-founder/CTO and first hire), and we spent the last year coding almost exclusively using Codex and Claude Code. It’s been a huge change to how we code, and it’s been exhilarating seeing the models keep getting better – but we eventually realized that developing on localhost was holding us back: - Git worktrees are clunky to set up and use for parallelizing work -…
Jun 2026 · boxes.dev · its alternatives →
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I built Duck-UI, a web-based SQL editor that runs DuckDB entirely in your browser via WebAssembly. No backend required. The Problem: Every time I needed to query csv, parquet, or even to play with SQL, I had to either: (a) spin up a Jupyter notebook (b) use the CLI (c) upload to a hosted service. Friction at every step (TOO MUCH to load a csv or even to test some sql (study)... The Solution: DuckDB's WASM runtime lets us run SQL analysis client-side. Load CSV/JSON/Parquet files from disk or URL, write SQL, get results instantly. Data stays on your machine. What It Does: SQL editor…
2025 · demo.duckui.com · its alternatives →
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No-code, ETL data pipelines for external data onboarding ⚡️
2021 · its alternatives →
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buildpipe▲116Compose, run and automate multi step AI developer workflows
May 2026 · buildpipe.com · its alternatives →
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Datangle (Beta)▲160No-code CI/CD workflow builder for your data
2024 · datangle.io · its alternatives →
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Flowpipe [1] is a new open source [2] cloud scripting engine from Turbot [3]. Some of you may already use Steampipe [4], our open-source [5] tool to live query cloud APIs. We believe DevOps teams need an easier way to orchestrate their cloud, build workflows and respond to events. But - because it's DevOps - that must be in code. In Flowpipe, pipelines are written in HCL and use simple primitives for HTTP requests, executing containers, running Lambda-compatible functions, querying databases like Steampipe and more. We have also published a large ecosystem of open source Flowpipe Mods [6].…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, We have been building SyncLite, an open-source platform to simplify offline-first application development. If your application uses SQLite or DuckDB, SyncLite lets it continue using the local database as usual while synchronization happens in the background. For SQL-based applications, SyncLite records transactions into transactionally consistent .sqlog files using SQLite as an open replication format. A background consolidator replays those transactions, derives row-level CDC and schema changes, and applies them transactionally to destination databases like PostgreSQL. The same…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Automate your CI/CD pipeline with 30+ supported integrations
2019 · atlassian.com · its alternatives →
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Refinery turns stranded power into sovereign AI compute, then connects every site as one virtual data center.
2019 · refinery.io · its alternatives →
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Visual ETL that compiles to a single SQL query
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Mage AI helps data teams build, orchestrate, monitor, and repair production data pipelines with editable SQL and Python for analytics, applications, and AI.
2022 · mage.ai · its alternatives →
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CloudNovel▲76A game engine where you can make games without coding.
2020 · cloudnovel.net · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I am Alex. I am open sourcing Data Studio, a lightweight data exploration IDE in your browser that runs locally. Try it: https://local.dataspren.com (no account needed, runs locally) More information: https://github.com/dataspren-analytics/data-studio I love working with data (Postgres, SQL, DuckDB, DBT, Iceberg, ...). I always wanted a data exploration tool that runs in my browser and just works. Without any infra or privacy concerns (DuckDB UI came quite close). Features: - Data Notebooks - SQL cells work like DBT models (they materialize to views) -…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built MOL, a domain-specific language for AI pipelines. The main idea: the pipe operator |> automatically generates execution traces — showing timing, types, and data at each step. No logging, no print debugging. Example: let index be doc |> chunk(512) |> embed("model-v1") |> store("kb") This auto-prints a trace table with each step's execution time and output type. Elixir and F# have |> but neither auto-traces. Other features: - 12 built-in domain types (Document, Chunk, Embedding, VectorStore, Thought, Memory, Node) - Guard assertions: `guard answer.confidence > 0.5 : "Too low"` -…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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afctl helps to manage and deploy Apache Airflow projects faster and smoother. - qubole/afctl
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey hacker news, we launched a few weeks ago as a GPT-powered chatbot for developer docs, and quickly realized that the value of what we’re doing isn’t the chatbot itself. Rather, it’s the time we save developers by automating the extraction of data from their SaaS tools (Github, Zendesk, Salesforce, etc) and helping transform it to contextually relevant chunks that fit into GPT’s context window. A lot of companies are building prototypes with GPT right now and they’re all using some combination of Langchain/Llama Index + Weaviate/Pinecone + GPT3.5/GPT4 as their stack for…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Bitbucket Cloud is a Git-based code and CI/CD tool optimized for teams using Jira.
2019 · bitbucket.org · its alternatives →
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