DBOS, Inc.

What DBOS, Inc. does

DBOS, Inc. is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based software company that develops open source durable workflow orchestration and observability software, founded in 2023 and venture-backed with over $8.5M in disclosed funding. Its product line centers on DBOS Transact, an open source durable execution library available in Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, and Kotlin that uses Postgres as the durability substrate; DBOS Conductor, a managed control plane introduced in April 2025 for observing, recovering, and forking durable workflows; and DBOS Cloud, a serverless hosting platform. The underlying technology was developed over three years of joint MIT-Stanford research led by Postgres creator Mike Stonebraker and advised by Apache Spark/Databricks co-founder Matei Zaharia, and the company holds a patent-pending position on the platform.

DBOS serves software developers, SREs, and AI engineers building agentic AI applications, durable data pipelines, and enterprise backend workflows. Named customers span Fortune 500 enterprises (Walmart, Bristol Myers Squibb, Roche, Notion, SeatGeek, MUFG, Avnet) and AI-native startups (Yutori, Luma AI, Dosu, Goblins, Soria Analytics, Ontologize, Stuut, FlowGen Labs, Riviera), with use cases ranging from AI agent orchestration and genomic data pipelines to EDI automation and AI lab workflows. The platform is differentiated by its Postgres-native architecture (no separate orchestration server), co-located workflow and application state enabling exactly-once transactional semantics, demonstrated scaling to 30,000+ workflows per second and 30 billion+ workflows per month, and native integrations with the leading AI agent frameworks (OpenAI Agents SDK, LlamaIndex, Pydantic AI, Google ADK). The company is SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA compliant, and was named a 2024 Gartner Cool Vendor in Enabling Efficient Cloud Operations.

DBOS operates a freemium open core go-to-market: the DBOS Transact library is free under an open source license, and paid revenue is generated through three published SaaS tiers — DBOS Pro at $99/month, DBOS Teams at $499/month, and DBOS Enterprise at custom pricing — plus usage-based checkpoint overage fees and quote-based DBOS Cloud serverless hosting. Distribution is hybrid: self-serve for SMB tiers via console.dbos.dev, direct enterprise sales for the Enterprise tier and DBOS Cloud, and channel/partner sales through hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure), AI infrastructure partners (OpenAI, Databricks, LlamaIndex, Pydantic AI), Postgres providers (Supabase, Cockroach Labs, Neon, PlanetScale, Tiger Data), and implementation services partners (BCG, UST, Zaelab). The company is led by co-founders Qian Li (CEO), Peter Kraft (CTO), Andy Palmer (Chairman), and Mike Stonebraker (Architect), with Jeremy Edberg (former CEO, August 2024) and Heather Ritchie as advisors.

Name

DBOS, Inc.

Legal name

DBOS, Inc.

Website

https://dbos.dev

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Workflow Orchestration Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (51821)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373)

akta.pro primary industry

NoSQL Database Management Systems (HDAEAAAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Multi-Model Databases (HDAEAAAL), Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) Platforms (HDAEAAAN), Connector/Adapter Frameworks & Integration Runtimes (HDAEACAJ)

Keywords

• Durable workflow orchestration
• Open source workflow library
• AI agent orchestration
• Workflow observability platform
• Serverless cloud platform

Headquarters

HQ city

Cambridge

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. DBOS Pro Subscription: Monthly subscription ($99/month) including 3 user seats, up to 5 DBOS apps, 1 million checkpoints/month, real-time workflow management console, MCP server, SOC 2 & HIPAA, and community Discord support. Checkpoint overage billed at $50/million.
2. DBOS Teams Subscription: Monthly subscription ($499/month) with 10 user seats, 10 DBOS apps, 10M free checkpoints, custom workflow alerting, RBAC, OpenMetrics, metadata-only mode, and dedicated Slack channel / 2-day SLAs. Extra checkpoints at $40/million with volume discounts.
3. DBOS Enterprise Contracts: Custom-priced annual/multi-year enterprise contracts including SSO/SAML, self-hosted Conductor, air-gapped deployment, volume discounts, same-day SLAs, technical onboarding, and technical account management.
4. Usage-Based Checkpoint Overage: Per-million-checkpoint usage fees ($40–$50 per million beyond included tier allowance) that grow with customer workload size.
5. DBOS Cloud Serverless Hosting: Serverless code execution platform built for DBOS Transact apps with auto-scaling, built-in observability, automatic app recovery, and SOC II / HIPAA compliance; pricing via contact sales (compute-time-based, no charge for wait time).
6. Freemium Open Source Library: DBOS Transact open source library is free forever; serves as a funnel into paid DBOS Pro, Teams, and Enterprise tooling, support, and Conductor control plane.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion5 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

DBOS, Inc. builds and sells an open-source durable workflow orchestration platform. Its core product, DBOS Transact, is a library available in Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, and Kotlin that adds durable workflows, queues, scheduled jobs, and transactional steps to any application, backed by Postgres for state. This is paired with DBOS Conductor, a managed control plane for workflow observability and operations, and DBOS Cloud, a serverless hosting platform sold in Pro, Teams, and Enterprise subscription tiers.

Product overview

DBOS, Inc. offers a unified durable-execution platform composed of three core components: DBOS Transact, the open-source durable execution library that developers embed into Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, or Kotlin applications; DBOS Conductor, the managed control plane / Workflow Ops Control Center for observing and operating those workflows; and DBOS Cloud, the serverless hosting platform sold in Pro, Teams, and Enterprise tiers. On top of this core, DBOS packages four solution offerings — Cron Job Platform, Durable AI Workflows, Durable Data Pipelines, and Cloud Modernization — that apply the same Transact/Conductor/Cloud foundation to specific use cases such as AI agent orchestration, RAG, ETL, and legacy backend replacement.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• DBOS Transact: Open source durable execution library available in Python, TypeScript, Go, and Java.
• DBOS Conductor
• DBOS Cloud

Products and services

• DBOS Transact An open source durable execution library available in Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, and Kotlin that adds workflows, queues, scheduled jobs, and transactional steps to any application, with state checkpointed in Postgres. Free forever, distributed via the dbos-inc GitHub organization.
• DBOS Conductor A managed control plane ("Workflow Ops Control Center") for DBOS Transact applications, providing workflow observability, queue dashboards, RBAC, alerting (Slack/PagerDuty), OpenMetrics export, MCP server, and data retention integrations with Redshift and Lakebase. Available as a self-hosted/air-gapped deployment.
• DBOS Cloud A serverless code-execution and hosting platform specially built for reliable, observable DBOS Transact applications, with auto-scaling, built-in observability, automatic app recovery, and SOC 2/HIPAA compliance. Sold in DBOS Pro, DBOS Teams, and DBOS Enterprise pricing tiers.
• DBOS Cron Job Platform A solution offering built on DBOS Transact that delivers reliable, observable, Postgres-backed scheduled job execution as a replacement for traditional cron, with dynamic per-customer schedules and exactly-once execution.
• DBOS Durable AI Workflows A solution offering that orchestrates durable AI workflows and agentic pipelines using DBOS Transact, with first-party support for OpenAI Agents SDK, LlamaIndex, Pydantic AI, and Google ADK, providing durable execution, retries, human-in-the-loop, and observability for production agentic AI.
• DBOS Durable Data Pipelines A solution offering that uses DBOS durable workflows and queues to build reliable, observable ETL and data pipelines backed by Postgres, with exactly-once transactional step semantics.
• DBOS Cloud Modernization A solution offering that helps organizations modernize legacy backends and replace serverless or cron-based systems with DBOS durable execution, removing the complexity, cost, and large cyberattack surface of traditional cloud native stacks.

Quantifiable outcome

• 40x faster genomic data transfers (8.1 min vs 5.6 hours) for BMS; cost reduced from $183 to $0.10
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers24 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration30 records

AI capability9 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

26 partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and minor.

• DatabricksflagshipTechnology or Integration · 7 April 2026Technology partnership to increase agentic AI reliability and trust. Integrates DBOS's open source durable workflow platform with Databricks' platform and Lakebase database to support real-time workflow checkpointing and automatic recovery from failures in AI agent workflows.
• Jeremy EdbergflagshipOthers · 13 August 2024Appointed as CEO of DBOS in August 2024 with 25+ years of experience at major tech companies; aims to simplify cloud application development and deployment. Now also listed as Advisor.
• AWSflagshipChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorAWS listed as a Cloud partner. 'The world's leading cloud platform, powering scalable and resilient applications everywhere.' Partnership supports customers scaling with fault-tolerant workflows and integration with AWS services.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)flagshipChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorGCP listed as a Cloud partner. 'Flexible, AI-ready infrastructure built to handle modern, data-intensive applications.' Riviera case study references Google CloudRun deployment.
• Microsoft AzureflagshipChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorMicrosoft Azure listed as a Cloud partner. 'Trusted enterprise-grade cloud services with the global reach to scale any workload.'
• OpenAIflagshipTechnology or IntegrationOpenAI listed as an AI Infrastructure partner. Integration with the OpenAI Agents SDK provides durable, observable, and reproducible agentic workflows.
• LlamaIndexcoreTechnology or IntegrationLlamaIndex listed as an AI Infrastructure partner. Native integration with LlamaIndex for building durable AI agents and data-aware applications.
• Pydantic AIcoreTechnology or IntegrationPydantic AI listed as an AI Infrastructure partner. Type-safe AI agent framework integrated with DBOS for reliable software.
• SupabasecoreTechnology or IntegrationSupabase listed as a Postgres Provider partner; CEO Paul Copplestone publicly endorses DBOS. Integrated documentation available at docs.dbos.dev/integrations/supabase.
• Cockroach LabscoreTechnology or IntegrationCockroach Labs listed as a Postgres Provider partner. CockroachDB is a distributed SQL database designed for global scale, high availability, and strong consistency.
• NeoncoreTechnology or IntegrationNeon listed as a Postgres Provider partner. Serverless Postgres platform enabling instant provisioning, autoscaling, and branching.
• PlanetScalecoreTechnology or IntegrationPlanetScale listed as a Postgres Provider partner. Fully managed relational database platform for Postgres.
• Tiger DatacoreTechnology or IntegrationTigerData listed as a Postgres Provider partner. Postgres-based platform for time-series and event data.
• BauplancoreTechnology or IntegrationBauplan listed as a Data Engineering partner. Serverless, code-first data lakehouse for AI-native data engineering; joint webcast 'Composing Unbreakable AI Workflows' (Sept 2025).
• ConfluentcoreTechnology or IntegrationConfluent listed as a Data Engineering partner. Real-time data streaming platform for event-driven architectures.
• DrizzlecoreTechnology or IntegrationDrizzle listed as a Data Engineering partner. Lightweight, type-safe ORM and SQL toolkit for modern TypeScript.
• FivetrancoreTechnology or IntegrationFivetran listed as a Data Engineering partner. Automated, zero-maintenance data pipelines into cloud warehouses, lakes, and analytics systems.
• VercelcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorVercel listed as a Cloud partner. Developer platform for deploying and scaling web and AI applications.
• Boston Consulting Group (BCG)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerBCG listed as an Implementation Services partner. 'A global leader in strategy and transformation, helping enterprises modernize with confidence.'
• USTcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerUST listed as an Implementation Services partner. Global technology solutions provider driving digital transformation and enterprise innovation at scale.
• ZaelabminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerZaelab listed as an Implementation Services partner. Specialists in digital commerce modernization, delivering faster, reliable enterprise experiences.
• Matei ZahariaflagshipOthersFounding Advisor and co-founder of Apache Spark / Databricks. Listed on About page and quoted in marketing materials. Plays a key strategic advisory role.
• Christos KozyrakisflagshipOthersFounding Advisor (Stanford). Listed on About page. Plays a key strategic advisory role.
• Mike StonebrakerflagshipOthersCo-founder and Architect of DBOS; creator of Postgres. Co-led MIT-Stanford R&D and is foundational to the company's technology and credibility.
• Andy PalmercoreOthersChairman and Co-founder. Listed on the Advisors/Leadership section of the About page.
• Google (ADK)coreTechnology or IntegrationReleased the DBOS plugin for Google ADK providing durable execution, retries, long-running agent support, human-in-the-loop, scalable execution, and observability for ADK agents. Integration listed on adk.dev/integrations/dbos/.

Scale indicators12 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Temporal Technologies: Direct durable execution competitor. Temporal is the category-defining workflow orchestration platform for microservices and AI agents, and DBOS customers explicitly cite 'DBOS over Temporal' as a competitive win — making it the closest comparable.
• Inngest: Direct durable workflow competitor targeting TypeScript and AI agent developers. Goblins migrated from Inngest to DBOS citing 3x performance improvement, positioning Inngest as a head-to-head rival for developer-led durable execution workloads.
• Prefect: Python-first workflow orchestration platform competing for the same data engineering and AI pipeline use cases DBOS targets (Durable Data Pipelines). Highly comparable on developer experience and Python-first durable execution.
• Dagster: Data platform orchestrator that competes with DBOS in ETL/data pipeline durability and observability. Overlaps on the Durable Data Pipelines solution offering and on Postgres-backed state for long-running workflows.

Emerging players

• Restate: Early-stage durable execution startup competing in the same Postgres- and Kafka-friendly workflow orchestration category as DBOS. Overlaps directly with DBOS Transact on durable async workflows and is a likely substitute for AI-agent backends.
• Trigger.dev: Developer-focused background jobs and workflow orchestration platform. Overlaps with DBOS on TypeScript-native durable workflows and AI agent scheduling, with similar PLG open-core GTM motion targeting indie developers and startups.

Broad incumbents

• Apache Airflow: Open-source incumbent in data pipeline orchestration and a workflow primitive cited by DBOS customers as a prior tool replaced. Overlaps with DBOS on durable data pipelines but lacks DBOS's lightweight library/Postgres-native approach.
• Celery: Mature Python distributed task queue cited by multiple DBOS customers (Dosu, Soria, Goblins) as the legacy system replaced by DBOS for durable workflows and queues — directly comparable on target developer audience and use case.
• AWS Step Functions: Hyperscaler workflow orchestration service against which DBOS positions its Postgres-native, server-included alternative. Directly comparable on durable workflow execution, particularly within the AWS customer base (e.g., Zaelab, BMS).
• Google Cloud Workflows: Hyperscaler serverless workflow orchestration service that DBOS customers (Ontologize) explicitly evaluated and passed over. Comparable on serverless durable execution and AI agent orchestration, with the structural advantage of GCP bundling.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat7 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors4 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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