--- 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) AP Anton P. Data Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/28/2022 "Astro is taking Airflow to the next level" 5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? The docker setup is great for scaling and not having to worry about inconsistent local development, the support provided by the Astro team is unmatched, and the guides/registry provided complement the Airflow repository wonderfully. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? So far, nothing! If a feature in Astro doesn't already have a guide to use, the support team will help out in a quick and responsive manner. Any feature that needs to be modified can be because of Astro's ability to be customized, so there is nothing that I can say I don't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? The main problem that Astro is solving is the issue of inconsistent local development, and the managed docker images that Astronomer provides solve this issue. Now resources don't need to be spent setting up local development and worrying about version differences when deploying DAGs to production. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Information Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Services") AI Verified User in Information Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/9/2023 "I am satisfied" 4/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? It is quite intuitive and easy to use. Much simpler than the previous company system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? I don't like metrics in Astronomer since you cannot use a custom time range and the aggregations are often misleading. I am also looking forward to scale to zero. There were also some issues that we are trying to sort out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? We don't have to care about the underlying architecture under Airflow very much. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Cory J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Cory J.") CJ Cory J. Director of Analytics Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/30/2022 "Migrated from MWAA - pleased with transition and product" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? Most helpful part is definitely the pre-packaged docker container that comes with the local astro environment. It was way less bloated than our original self-built docker image and ran way better on my M1 mac. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? I think their pricing structure could have some odd incentives if you were a really large enterprise who wanted to use astro. It could incentivize you to write bulky tasks to reduce your task count which is antithetical to the philosophies of Airflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Astro is handling all of the dev ops related to standing up and maintaining a data pipeline. Until you've tried to do this at an enterprise scale, you don't realize that writing the code is the EASY part, and that making all the services talk to each other is the hard part. 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.) 8/19/2022 "Astronomer is a great tool for managing airflow." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? Being able to have multiple workspaces for each team. Also, the Astro CLI is a great tool for being able to replicate your environment locally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? Airflow has a beefy architecture, so naturally the cost isn't the best. Not super flexible if I need to access private resources on a different cloud account. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Being able to isolate different airflow deployments between teams. Running an identical environment locally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 8/9/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![David F.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "David F.") DF David F. Data Science Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/12/2022 "A white glove experience for integrating Airflow" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? I don't need to know dev ops or data engineering. I can stick with python code and have top of the line orchestration without having to worry about servers and clusters and everything that blocks me from doing my job as a data scientist. Astronomer has a great push-button solution and wonderful support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? The pricing by task makes me not want to use Airflow to its best capability. I am writing inefficient DAGs with monolithic tasks so that I don't spend too much of our spend on modularized tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Airflow is a nightmare to setup and upkeep. Astronomer is taking all of the setup and infrastructure and letting me just worry about the code and pipeline. I now am off of Microsoft Scheduler and have much better control and monitoring of my data pipelines without having to hire a data engineer or dev ops person. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 6/12/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Online Media](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Online Media") AO Verified User in Online Media Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/22/2023 "Smooth and Amazing" 5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? The customer support and reliability, also easy to implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? They can maybe do the alerts more configurable in terms of the data to show in the alert. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Astro solves all the infrastructure support and maintenance, also any updates/patches are 100% managed by astro and they do it really well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Damian G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Damian G.") DG Damian G. Director Of Engineering - Data Platform Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/30/2022 "Astro allowed us to get more from Airflow" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? Astro allowed us to get more out of Airflow by scaling up our deployments without the need to increase resources spent on managing the infrastructure. Version upgrades became easier, professional support is very friendly and efficient, and on top of that allowing us to take advantage of the Astro runtimes which provide us with wealth of improvements in top of the open source airflow flavour. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? Not much comes to mind. It has been an overall improvement moving to Astro, and will do it again if we had to go back and take the decision again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Astro Runtimes give us tried and tested ways how we can improve our code base when writing pipelines Managed infrastructure allow us to focus on other areas, rather than managing the infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Tomáš H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Tomáš H.") TH Tomáš H. Senior Backend Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/21/2022 "Amazing from the first contact" 5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? Where to start? First, the sales were super keen on understanding our business and our technical needs, were very helpful in putting together several presentations about specific Airflow and dbt related topics we are interested in, and brought in an experienced engineer with whom we could go deep about technical questions. The whole sales process was as smooth as I could imagine such a thing to be. After signing the contract, I'm happy to say that our dedicated account manager and a dedicated engineer have raised the bar even higher. I loved the structure and amount of the related training materials we received; I can't thank enough the engineer who's been regularly discussing with us and advising us on how to best use the product - both the Astronomer platform and, more importantly, the Airflow itself. She's been super diligent in following up quickly whenever there was anything that required more research on her end. Last but not least - the Astro CLI and the Astronomer cloud just work, are pleasant to work with and take away any of the headaches we'd have if we were to manage Apache Airflow ourselves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? I only wish I discovered and started using the service sooner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Astronomer is taking care of the Apache Airflow deployment, management and monitoring for its customers. On top of that, it offers customers access to a vast amount of knowledge and experience implementing data-engineering pipelines in Apache Airflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Will F.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Will F.") WF Will F. Head Of Data Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/31/2022 "great product / great company / great people" 5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? Astronomer's control plane provides fantastic visibility into our data operations. Astronomer offered the best mix of capabilities and structure of the managed data orchestration vendors we evaluated. The thought leadership and support the Astronomer team provides are "best in class." Astronomer cares deeply about the success of their customers. Their approach is so unique that I have encouraged other vendors to look at how Astronomer supports customer success. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? Nothing significant at this point. Astronomer is a company that will address and resolve issues. (See my: "What do you like best?") Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Astronomer allows us to focus more on our data flows and less on Airflow configuration and maintenance. Astronomer's frameworks for addressing common problems have become a major accelerator for our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Mohammed A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mohammed A.") MA Mohammed A. Data Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/20/2022 "My 'seamless' experience with Astronomer" 4/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? The ability to create multiple deployments inside a single workspace or as per user-types and an all-new analytics page where we can see the DAGrun statistics. This helps the platform keep a check on resource usage and gives us more options to look out for a while monitoring our deployments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? I think the IAM needs attention as it does not help provide different permissions to users inside the same workspace. Right now individual users are able to create their own deployments inside a workspace, whereas that is not required. Hopefully Astronomer will look into this issue soon. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Astro helps in categorizing workspaces for different user types or deployment types. This benefits my company and me by separating our deployments for different user groups eg. Data Engineers and Data Analysts. 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. [ Ask about Astro by Astronomer ](https://www.g2.com/products/astro-by-astronomer/discussions/new) GU Guest User What is your experience with Astro by Astronomer for data orchestration, and what challenges have you faced? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-your-experience-with-astro-by-astronomer-for-data-orchestration-and-what-challenges-have-you-faced) GU Guest User What is Astro by Astronomer used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-astro-by-astronomer-used-for) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/astro-by-astronomer/discuss) ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 2 months ### Return on Investment 18 months ### Average Discount 11% ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/astro-by-astronomer/pricing) ## How much does Astro by Astronomer cost? Data powered by [BetterCloud](https://www.bettercloud.com). Estimated Price ### $$k - $$k Per Year Based on data from 8 purchases. 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