Mage

About Mage

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Mage

All products by Mage reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

MageAI Data Tools

Open-source data pipeline tool for engineers and data scientists

From $100/mo7.1/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Mage

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Mage's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.6 points — The Skeptic was the hardest to convince, The Domain Strategist the most positive.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Mage competes with, and how they differ.

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Apache Airflow

Airflow is the older, DAG-based orchestrator Mage is built to replace: Airflow requires writing DAGs as separate Python scripts, while Mage bundles ingestion, transformation, and orchestration into single-file, notebook-style pipeline blocks with a built-in local UI.

Dagster8.2/10

Dagster is a newer, also open-source-with-managed-cloud orchestrator pitching the same "better developer experience than Airflow" positioning, but centers pipelines around typed, software-defined data assets rather than Mage's block-based notebook pipelines.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Prefect7.9/10

Prefect targets the same Python-first, Airflow-replacement niche using dynamic, code-defined flows and a hybrid execution model, versus Mage's emphasis on an interactive notebook UI for building and debugging pipelines.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Airbyte8.2/10

Airbyte is an open-source EL(T) connector platform that Mage's own comparison page names directly: Airbyte specializes in prebuilt data-source connectors, while Mage bundles lighter-weight ingestion together with orchestration and transformation in one tool.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Fivetran8.1/10

Fivetran is a fully-managed, closed-source ELT service; Mage's own comparison page contrasts itself as giving teams more control over custom transformation and orchestration logic than Fivetran's managed connectors allow.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

dbt Labs8.4/10

dbt is the standard SQL-transformation layer many data teams pair with a separate orchestrator; Mage's own comparison page positions itself as covering ingestion, orchestration, deployment, and observability beyond dbt's transformation-only scope.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Mage's history, with sources.

1. Mar 2, 2023Funding

   Seed extension — $5,487,999 per SEC Form D

   Mage Technologies, Inc. filed a Form D with the SEC disclosing $5,487,999 sold in an equity offering that began 2023-03-02, an extension of its seed round from the same investor group (Gradient Ventures) per contemporaneous funding trackers.

   sec.gov
2. Mar 11, 2022Launch

   Launches open-source data pipeline tool on Product Hunt, pivoting to an Airflow alternative

   Mage launched its open-source data pipeline orchestration tool on Product Hunt (#1 Product of the Day), repositioning from its original 2021 low-code AI-app-builder pitch to "the modern replacement for Airflow" — building, running, and managing data pipelines with Python, SQL, and R.

   producthunt.com
3. Oct 19, 2021Funding

   Seed — $6.3M led by Gradient Ventures

   Mage raised a $6.3 million seed round led by Gradient Ventures (Google's AI-focused fund), with participation from Neo, Designer Fund, and angel investors including Unity CEO John Riccitiello, Behance founder Scott Belsky, and Lenny Rachitsky. At the time the company was positioned as a low-code tool for product developers to build AI into their apps.

   techcrunch.com
4. 2020Founded

   Founded by Tommy Dang and Xiaoyou Wang

   Mage Technologies, Inc. was founded at the end of 2020 by Tommy Dang (CEO) and Xiaoyou Wang, and incorporated in Delaware (confirmed by SEC EDGAR filings, CIK 0001845772, yearOfInc=2020).

   techcrunch.com