ClearML
ClearML / clear.ml
Open source MLOps platform for experiment tracking, data management, pipeline orchestration, and model serving — providing a free alternative to Weights & Biases and MLflow for ML teams.
Pricing
Free
Free plan
Yes
Category
Developer Tools
Platforms
3
Free plan
Yes
API access
Yes
Open source
Yes
Platforms
3
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What is ClearML?
ClearML is an open source MLOps platform providing comprehensive machine learning operations tooling — experiment tracking, dataset versioning, ML pipeline orchestration, model registry, and model serving — as a single integrated platform that teams can self-host for free.
Experiment tracking records hyperparameters, metrics, model weights, and artifacts from ML training runs automatically (with minimal code changes or without any code changes using auto-magic integration with popular frameworks). Comparing runs across experiments, reproducing results, and understanding what changed between versions is the core MLOps problem ClearML solves.
Data management with ClearML Data versioned dataset tracking connects datasets to the experiments that used them, enabling reproducibility and lineage tracking of ML training data alongside model tracking.
ML pipeline orchestration (ClearML Pipelines) executes multi-step ML workflows — data preparation, feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment — automatically across distributed compute resources. Pipeline steps are defined as Python code and orchestrated through the ClearML server.
Agent-based compute provides dynamic scaling of ML compute — ClearML Agents on computing nodes pull tasks from queues automatically, enabling auto-scaling of training capacity without managed Kubernetes complexity.
At completely open source with self-hosting, ClearML is attractive for ML teams with privacy requirements, budget constraints, or a preference for open source tooling over commercial alternatives.
How ClearML works
ClearML runs as ml platform software built around code and data workflows. Users typically start with a prompt, upload, or connected data source, and the underlying model handles the heavy lifting before returning a result you can refine or export. It's available on python, cli, and web, with API access for teams that want to embed it into their own products.
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What makes it worth shortlisting
The capabilities that matter most for teams evaluating ClearML.
Experiment tracking
Records hyperparameters, metrics, model weights, and artifacts from ML training runs with minimal or no code changes using auto-magic framework integration.
ML pipeline orchestration
Executes multi-step ML workflows across distributed compute resources with ClearML Agents pulling tasks from queues, enabling auto-scaling without managed Kubernetes complexity.
Open source self-hosted
Free deployment on own infrastructure keeping all ML data private, with Docker-based setup for self-hosting without cloud dependency.
Best use cases
Who should use it
Pros
- Completely free self-hosted deployment for teams with privacy requirements or budget constraints
- Open source transparency — inspect and modify the platform code for custom needs
- Auto-magic experiment tracking integrates without code changes for common ML frameworks
- Comprehensive platform covering experiment to deployment rather than requiring multiple tools
Cons
- Self-hosted requires DevOps setup and maintenance overhead
- Community support for open source tier — enterprise support requires paid plan
- Less polished UI/UX than commercial alternatives like Weights & Biases
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Is it worth the price?
Open source self-hosted is free. ClearML Cloud managed from $13/month. Enterprise custom.
Model
Open Source
Starting price
Free
Free trial
No
Tools like ClearML
Weights & Biases (covered) is the commercial standard with stronger experiment visualisation. MLflow (Apache) is an open source alternative focused on experiment tracking. Kubeflow provides ML pipelines on Kubernetes. DVC provides data versioning alongside MLflow.
ClearML vs Hugging Face
A side-by-side look at the closest alternative in this category.
ClearML
ClearML
Hugging Face
Hugging Face
Open source self-hosted is free. ClearML Cloud managed from $13/month. Enterprise custom.
Free for most models and Spaces. Pro $9/month for private models, priority inference, and ZeroGPU. Enterprise Hub from $20/user/month for team collaboration and security.
Open source self-hosted keeps all data on customer infrastructure. ClearML Cloud subject to ClearML's data handling policy. Enterprise includes data handling agreements.
Enterprise Hub includes SSO, access controls, audit logs, and private infrastructure. SOC 2 compliant.
Self-hosted deployment keeps all ML experiment data on customer infrastructure. ClearML Cloud transmits experiment data to ClearML's servers — review privacy policy.
Public models and datasets are openly accessible. Enterprise Hub provides private model storage with data handling agreements. Review individual model licences before commercial deployment.
- Completely free self-hosted deployment for teams with privacy requirements or budget constraints
- Open source transparency — inspect and modify the platform code for custom needs
- Auto-magic experiment tracking integrates without code changes for common ML frameworks
- Comprehensive platform covering experiment to deployment rather than requiring multiple tools
- De facto standard hub for open source AI models with 500,000+ available
- Transformers library provides consistent API for diverse model families
- Spaces enable easy demo deployment without web infrastructure
- Free for public models and strong community support
- Self-hosted requires DevOps setup and maintenance overhead
- Community support for open source tier — enterprise support requires paid plan
- Less polished UI/UX than commercial alternatives like Weights & Biases
- Technical platform primarily for developers and researchers
- Inference API quality varies for very large or complex models
- Navigation complexity increases with scale of the platform
Technical & deployment info
Key facts about model providers, platforms, and team support.
Model Provider
ClearML, Community
Platforms
Python, CLI, Web
Deployment
Open Source, SaaS, Self-hosted
Integrations
PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, scikit-learn, Hugging Face, AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, API
Team Collaboration
No
Launch Year
2022
Security & privacy
Compliance signals and data-handling notes as reported by the vendor.
Open source self-hosted keeps all data on customer infrastructure. ClearML Cloud subject to ClearML's data handling policy. Enterprise includes data handling agreements.
Self-hosted deployment keeps all ML experiment data on customer infrastructure. ClearML Cloud transmits experiment data to ClearML's servers — review privacy policy.
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Editorial Verdict
Should you use ClearML?
ClearML is the best open source MLOps platform for ML teams who need private self-hosted experiment tracking and pipeline orchestration without the subscription cost of Weights & Biases or the complexity of building custom MLOps infrastructure.
Last verified July 24, 2026.