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Polyaxon

Polyaxon
open core / Overall score: 2.4

Platform for running and tracking machine-learning workloads on Kubernetes. Operations are submitted to queues that route them to an agent managing a namespace or a whole cluster, with quotas, priorities and concurrency limits applied on the way. Polyaxon Community Edition carries the core platform; queues, RBAC and retention are part of the commercial editions.

The queue and scheduling system that the capability score describes is part of Polyaxon's commercial offering, not the open Community Edition alone.

Openness

4 high confidence
4.0
license
Apache-2.0(OSI)
source
public(polyaxon/polyaxon carries the Community Edition platform)
core features withheld
yes — the repository documents an organizationKey license key that unlocks project-level RBAC, data-retention policies, audit logs, UI customization, organization creators and the SCIM and instance-management APIs

Polyaxon's source is Apache-2.0, but an enterprise tier is unlocked by an organizationKey added to the deployment chart. Its own documentation lists what that key adds beyond the unlimited Community Edition: project-level RBAC, data-retention policies, audit logs, UI customization, organization creators, and the SCIM and instance-management APIs.

  • https://github.com/polyaxon/polyaxon recorded 2026-09-15

    Repository page for polyaxon/polyaxon: Apache-2.0 license, public and unarchived, described as 'AI Infra / AI Orchestration / AI Control Plane'. Establishes the license and that the source is public.

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/polyaxon/polyaxon/master/site/setup/license-key.mdx recorded 2026-09-15

    Polyaxon's own enterprise license-key documentation: 'All core Polyaxon features and APIs are available in Polyaxon CE without any limits', followed by the list of Enterprise features requiring a key - project-level RBAC, data retention, audit logs, UI customization, organization creators, SCIM and the instance-management API - and the organizationKey field that activates them.

Adoption

2 high confidence
2.0

Adoption is measured by PyPI downloads of the polyaxon package in the trailing 30 days.

Capability

3 medium confidence
3.0

Polyaxon decides when an operation runs and which agent, namespace or cluster it goes to, and Kubernetes places the resulting pods once assigned. That decision-making keeps it level with MLRun rather than higher.

  • https://polyaxon.com/docs/core/scheduling-strategies/queues/ recorded 2026-09-15

    Polyaxon's queues documentation: queues prioritise and throttle operations, set quotas on CPU, memory, GPU, TPU and cost, and route operations to a namespace or cluster; agents manage namespaces or clusters and each agent can manage multiple queues. The page is marked 'This is part of our commercial offering.'

Verified 2026-09-15