--- title: Astro by Astronomer Reviews meta\_title: 'Astro by Astronomer Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 136 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Astro by Astronomer works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.5 review\_count: 136 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Cloud Data Integration url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-data-integration --- # Astro by Astronomer Reviews & Product Details Visit Website For data teams looking to increase the availability of trusted data, Astronomer provides Astro, the modern data orchestration platform, powered by Airflow. Astro enables data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to build, run, and observe pipelines-as-code. Astronomer is the driving force behind Apache Airflow™, the de facto standard for expressing data flows as code. Airflow is downloaded more than 31 million times each month and is used by hundreds of thousands of teams around the world. * * * Product Website Astro by Astronomer Seller [Astronomer](https://www.g2.com/sellers/astronomer) Discussions [Astro by Astronomer Community](https://www.g2.com/products/astro-by-astronomer/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Juliana ODonohue Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/astro-by-astronomer/pricing) MV Michael V. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/26/2023 "Best Way to take the pain out of Airflow" 5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? I've worked with Airflow for the last 6 year, both administering it myself and using managed services like AWS MWAA. In my opinion Astronomer is the only feasible managed service currently available for Airflow. It's the first managed service I've used that does not entail a surprising number of performance bugs even when used only as an orchestration engine (which generally deferable functionality has resolved), and the only approach I would recommend if you want to also use it as an execution engine in its own right. In our use case, our per deployment costs were cut in half relative to AWS MWAA. Additionally it greatly increases ease of use, so non-engineering teams can make use of it with minimal need for engineering staff once it's set up. Additionally, customer service is excellent. Always a response time proportional to the level of severity, and even complex bug fixes (generally caused by underlying Airflow libraries, not Astronomer itself) that have popped up had tested fixes available within a few days. If you're using Airflow for a non-trivial, production workload and not managing the cluster yourself, I don't think there's any other way to go than Astronomer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? Typical painpoints of using a managed service and the limited access that entails, particularly around the shared-compute cluster options and lack of CLI access to remote deployments. That they're serious about addressing with developing new features to ease these painpoints shows they take issues of access more seriously than most managed service providers (Airflow-based and beyond). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Complex orchestration of all data ingestion and processing at our company, which ingests data from numerous third party media entities and internally-owned web applications. Will also soon be used in orchestrating MLOps platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Hannah L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Hannah L.") HL Hannah L. Senior Software Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 10/28/2023 "Best product for a startup" 5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? When working at a startup with limited resources, we don't have time to worry about self-managing Airflow. Astronomer enabled us to get started with Airflow very quickly without the hassel of setting it up ourselves or worrying about as much maintenance. The customer support is amazing. The field engineer assigned to us is very smart and proactive to make sure all of our requirements are met. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? Nothing to dislike. I've worked at companies where we self-hosted Airflow which was such a hassel. Astronomer makes everything so much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? -Don't have to worry about self-hosting -Less time spent on maintenance -Local development is so easy -Deployment processes is very quick and efficient -Very easy to update requirements -Thorough documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") AC Verified User in Computer Software Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/31/2023 "Great option for easy Airflow" 4/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? Easy to implement and maintain. Setup is pretty quick and the painful parts of managing Airflow are removed. Deploying and upgrading are simple. Also very easy to get a local environment up and running, which is a big win. The Docker based deployments make it easy to test out version upgrading locally before deploying. Astro CLI is great for implementing a CI/CD process. Customer service team has been great to work with - very responsive and quick to escalate to more technical team members as needed. Overall a great option for easy Airflow deployment - I can mostly forget about the infrastrcuture and just focus on pipeline development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? Astronomer has rolled out a few new features and/or products over the past year or so that have looked great in the marketing material and demos, but have been less impressive under the hood. Cloud IDE being the latest. Great potential, just still a bit half baked and not worth encorporating on my current project (yet). Great to see Astro consistently working towards value adding features though. Relatively high price - probably wouldn't be worth it for smaller use cases or companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Managing Airflow - relatively pain free via Astronomer. Great support from their team to helps with any issues - nice to be able to take advantage of their Airflow expertise and experience. Overall improves Airflow ease of use - in comparison to self managed or other managed options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic WA Waqar A. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/8/2023 "Astronomer made running Airflow easy" 5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? I can solely focus on my development without worrying about infra side issues. Before moving to Astronomer, most of my time spent searching about 'Task not getting queued', 'Zombie processes' 'Scheduler not running'... nad never got enough time for development. Astronomer made it super easy for me. That's why this is the third project I'm doing where I've recommended Astronomer to the client as a freelancer in their team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? I never got anything bad up until now. Just also wanted have access to Airflow side CLI to execute certain commands which I sometimes need for stuff like bulk backfilling etc. And very recently had an issue with getting in touch with support with one of my query. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? All the developers in the team only focus on development. We only had to spend time to setup CI/CD once and everything is sorted now. We never have to manually check if Airflow is up, scheduler and workers are running. Also local setup is extremely simple with just like 3 commands to spin up your personal Airflow instance locally. Save so much time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") AR Verified User in Retail Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/28/2023 "If you have the capital, it's the best of the bunch" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? Of the three best known managed Airflow options (MWAA, Cloud Composer, Astronomer), I think Astronomer is the most streamlined and easy-to-use. The Docker image/runtime is well thought out, and the hybrid managed Dataplane option has sensible ways of doing things and removes the burden of maintaining the deployment. I love the Astro CLI and how easy it is to customize the base Airflow image they provide. The docs are good and they are closest to the actual core Airflow community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? Pricier than the other two, but IMO the extra features are well worth it. Charging by task run also requires care. Outside of pricing/cost though... it's great. I gave them a 9 instead of a 10 because of the cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Workflow orchestration/data pipelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Lorenzo C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Lorenzo C.") LC Lorenzo C. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/9/2023 "Streamlining Data Workflow Excellence: Perspective Astronomer for Airflow DAG Management" 4/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? Astronomer has transformed my data pipeline journey as a software engineer. Its intuitive interface and drag-and-drop functionality make designing and troubleshooting Airflow DAGs a breeze. Real-time visualization offers quick insights into DAG runs, enhancing monitoring. Collaborative features and scalability seal the deal, making it a must-have tool for managing projects of any size. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? While Astronomer is a game-changer, there's room for growth. New users might face a slight learning curve despite the user-friendly interface. Expanding the range of pre-built operators would add flexibility. Although the documentation is decent, more detailed guides, especially for advanced features, would be a welcome addition. Overall, refinement in these areas would enhance the experience even more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Simplifies complex DAG management, provides real-time monitoring and visualization, help us collaborate and do version control, make the growing workloads scalable, and make troubleshooting and debugging more efficient Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Silvia H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Silvia H.") SH Silvia H. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/9/2023 "Using Astronomer for 12 months in a data engineering team" 4/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? The fact that it is a SaaS lets our team focus on the coding side; it is quite simple to start using Airflow as you can skip all the initial setups. This is particularly useful for those teams that started using Python and are more distant from the infra side (i.e. data Scientists, analysts, etc.). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? I feel that the monitoring dashboard is not rich enough in all circumstances so that we can fully understand possible issues there. For instance, there is no option for accessing KubernetesPod settings alongside our cloud account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? It has become a powerful resource in the team to quickly deploy Python scripts, being our use cases mainly focused on ETL pipelines. It is also easy for us to provide a workspace to other teams so that they can run their scripts easily too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Organic Review from User Profile ![Karthik D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Karthik D.") KD Karthik D. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/5/2023 "Astronomer Powered Airflow" 5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? Ease of setting up and launching Airflow in production. Suits well for teams which have limited data engineering capacity and allows to focus more on the business logic for the pipelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? Have been using the product for 3 months now. I do not see any limitations per se with the Astro itself. It used to have very limited functionality for integrating dbt projects but with the latest release, this concern is addressed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Astro is solving the major pain point of managing the Airflow instance and allowing users to focus on the actual pipelines. This allowed us to go live in production for our data workload automation in a very short time. ~ 1 Month Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Premkumar G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Premkumar G.") PG Premkumar G. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/10/2023 "Best Orchestration" 5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? - Till date , best Orchestration tool in Market. - Ability to integrate multiple tools,services across Market. - Better UI till date to see job status. - Easy of use . - Various Executor based on use case(celery , kubernetes) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? - Cost transperancy could be improved. - Library guidelines needs to be stated clearly. - Detailed loggin would be beneficial for issue tracking. - In windows, we are facing frequent UI loading issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? - Best Orchestration in terms of integrating multiple platforms,services. - Since it is in Python , easy for developers to write a code and deploy it. - User friendly UI to find the failure ,Sucess status and Mail integration to track the Job status quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller VB Vinod B. Data Warehouse Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/9/2023 "Best in Orchestration" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? - Astro is a very easy-to-use platform. - The Astro CLI makes it simple to manage your Airflow deployments from the command line, and the Astro UI is user-friendly and well-designed -. Being a Managed platform developer can more focus on providing business solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? Costing is sometimes not transparent and the COSMOS library is still something we can do and add new features as it is restricted on to DBT and hoping it can also give addition view if added for DLT tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Astro helps to develop the pipeline with minimal effort which give the best view of DAG in web UI. also being 24/7 support the issues and clarification are being rectified. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ## Questions about Astro by Astronomer? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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