Prefect

Modern workflow orchestration

Orchestrate workflows with Prefect. Open-source, production-ready workflow orchestration for data, ML, and agent workflows on a single control plane.

16K

GitHub Stars

none

TypeScript

medium

Learning Curve

4.5

DX Score

Visit Website → Documentation GitHub

Pricing

Model

freemium

Free Tier

Open source, self-hosted

Paid

Prefect Cloud plans

Features

✓ Python-first orchestration
✓ Durable execution
✓ Event-driven automation
✓ Work pools
✓ Hybrid architecture
✓ SSO and RBAC
✓ dbt integration
✓ Timeline debugging
✓ Observability

Pros

+ No DAG constraints
+ Resume from failures
+ Great Python DX
+ Hybrid deployment
+ Active development

Cons

- Migration from v1 complex
- Cloud pricing can add up
- Smaller than Airflow
- Learning new concepts

Best For

startup enterprise

Alternatives

Temporal

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