loafer alternatives
Curated alternatives to loafer — and why you'd switch.
duckle
Self-hosted ETL/ELT on DuckDB: author pipelines on a canvas, in SQL or Python, then ship the same file to your own server — 190+ sources, dbt, CDC, lineage, and an MCP server for agents.
Why switchBoth are self-hosted ETL/ELT you author as files. Duckle runs on DuckDB with a canvas plus SQL/Python and ships the same file to production; Loafer is YAML-first with durable role-isolated workers, quarantine and schema-drift policies, and an optional AI-written transform.
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