Great Expectations

Always know what to expect from your data.

Soda Core, Pandera, and Deequ. 3 alternatives to Great Expectations, in Python, Scala. Compare fit, licence, stars and the latest signed release.

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3 alternatives to Great Expectations
Tool	Fit	Stars	Licence	Terms	Self-hosted	Language	Latest	Last push
Soda Core	Full replacement	2.4k	Other	Source available	No	Python	v4.27.0	2026-10-16
Pandera	Partial	4.5k	MIT	Open source	No	Python	v0.34.1	2026-10-19
Deequ	Partial	3.6k	Apache-2.0	Open source	No	Scala	2.1.0	2026-10-13

3 alternatives

Data Contracts engine for the modern data stack. https://www.soda.io

Data checks written in a YAML-based language and run in pipelines.

A light-weight, flexible, and expressive statistical data testing library

Schema validation for dataframes in Python, without data docs or a checkpoint runner.

Deequ is a library built on top of Apache Spark for defining "unit tests for data", which measure data quality in large datasets.

Data quality checks and metrics on Apache Spark, written in Scala.