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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 documentation is marked as part of the commercial offering, so the capability band describes the product as sold rather than Community Edition alone. Verified 2026-09-15 via the repository, the enterprise license-key documentation and the PyPI download API.

Openness

4 high confidence
4.0
license
Apache-2.0(OSI)
source
public(polyaxon/polyaxon carries the Community Edition platform)
core-gated
gated(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)

Apache-2.0 source with an enterprise tier unlocked by a key. Polyaxon's own documentation states that core features are in Community Edition without limits and then lists what is not: project-level RBAC, data-retention policies, audit logs, UI customization, organization creators, and the SCIM and instance-management APIs, activated by adding an organizationKey to the deployment chart. A license key unlocking functionality is this dimension's definition of gated.

  • 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

The PyPI download API reports 32,816 downloads of polyaxon in the trailing 30 days, inside the 10K-100K band for level 2.

Capability

3 medium confidence
3.0

Polyaxon decides when an operation runs and which agent, namespace or cluster receives it, and the Kubernetes operator places the pods. That is band 3. The queue machinery is documented as part of the commercial offering, and it still counts here: this category scores wholly closed products too, so conditioning capability on openness would put two different questions on one axis.

  • 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