--- 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) ![Verified User in Media Production](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Media Production") CM Verified User in Media Production Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/8/2023 "It is easy to learn and best scheduler which I came across" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? It is easy to learn and best scheduler which I came across. Easy to learn Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? Sometimes new features doesn't work staright forward. Dependency on docker should be reduced Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? All scheduling is taken care by astro. It takes the load off and focus only on logic part. Yes, I am more prodcutive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller TG Tommy G. Data Architect Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/22/2022 "Deploying Airflow for your Enterprise Level Needs Can be Challenging; Don't go Alone, Use Astronomer" 5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? Onboarding process & Technical support. Airflow and AWS Configuration Expertise. ROI is unmatched vs. building teams internally to build Enterprise Airflow. Ability to implement the newest version of Airflow without the headaches of managing EKS clusters on AWS. Their team is always there to provide support and make recommendations to improve our DAG ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? I hope that Airflow will grow and be able to do larger data movement operations and eventually replace the need for separate Spark clusters. The expansion of XCOM's and Dynamic Task instances has been great but would still like to see more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Managing infrastructure and code of Airflow. Plus, the ability to develop code locally and push through a well-defined CICD process is a big seller for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Eric C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Eric C.") EC Eric C. Lead Data Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/19/2022 "Great product for Data Engineers" 5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? Astro contains all the tooling we had planned on building ourselves internally. Not having to re-invent the wheel is great and saves us time. Having an environment that supports the most recent versions of Airflow is also nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? The OpenLineage offering from Astro is not nearly as robust or well-documented as we expected. The lack of robustness is not a huge deal breaker, but it is somewhat annoying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Astro provides us (Data Engineer's at FreightWaves) with the most recent and up-to-date tools for developing within Airflow while not having to reinvent the wheel. This helps to increase our development speed and allows us to incorporate engineering best practices into our pipelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Cameron T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Cameron T.") CT Cameron T. DVP, Data Solutions Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/9/2022 "Fantastic Support While Onboarding" 5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? The support we received from Victoria Varney and Philippe Gagnon has been incredible while we're migrating over to astro (we're about 50% there - and would not be without Victoria and Philippe's patience and time to get us here). The astro ui, ability to dynamically spin up environments for various teams / use cases, and not having to worry about the infra is important to me as a data leader. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? Currently the only downside was the security hoops we had to go through to get everything connected properly in order for our initial dags to run. Once that was set up we had to tackle how to migrate our home grown packages but we finally got there, and now the migration is smooth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Infrastructure management; environment management. Our current airflow (ec2 in aws) constantly goes down due to capacity and we don't have a cloud engineer on staff. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad") UT Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/10/2023 "Review" 4/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? - Easy to use - User friendly - Easy to figure things out. - UI looks good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? Happy with everything. No issues at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/9/2023 "Good product" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? PAAS offering is a big plus to most engineering orgs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? I don't really have much negative to say. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Mostly not having to manage the infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Ian W.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ian W.") IW Ian W. Senior Data Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/19/2022 "Happy to be working in Astronomer!" 5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? I love the easy CLI integrations, Docker-based deployments, and ease of development on Astro. These features make it a significant improvement over Google Cloud Composer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? Honestly, so far, it has been great. The only thing I would point out is setting up the secrets manager and environment variables proved to be a bit confusing. But support was great, and we got through it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? It makes managing our Airflow instances much easier and provides a significantly improved developer experience. It is speeding up or development cycles and will set us up for a more maintainable and flexible architecture moving forward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Francesco C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Francesco C.") FC Francesco C. Manager Data Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/28/2022 "Enabling Data Mesh with Astronomer" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? Having different deployments, easy to create helped us a lot in enabling several teams within the company. In the past was difficult for us to manage different deployments, Astronomer did solve that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? It requires non python expert users to adapt quite a lot to the language used. Even though this will be partially tackled with the IDE, it will cost us many more tasks. Templating is missing! we had to create our repo that people clone and then adapt to have some examples Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Astronomer is providing a super simple interface to enable teams across the company to have their dedicated environment to use. This allows separation without extra difficulties. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Richard F.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Richard F.") RF Richard F. Director of Data Engineering Financial Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/13/2022 "Start writing DAG instead of debugging celery workers" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? - Get started with Airflow quickly - Great learning resources created by Astronomer - The Astro CLI enables an easy local development process - Easy CI/CD through GitHub action - Don't need to worry too much about the infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? - The pricing tier based on task runs limits the use cases for Airflow if you are not at scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? - Enable your small data engineering team to start writing DAGs quickly without the need to figure out how to set up, host, or scale Airflow. - Enable the deployment of Airflow in our VPC to comply with our industry security standards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Entertainment](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Entertainment") UE Verified User in Entertainment Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/22/2023 "Great tool for Cron Jobs and Job Automation" 5/5 What do you like best about Astro by Astronomer? Cloud platform to help support the jobs that need to run at any cadence. Integrates well with all the platforms used like Databricks and cloud services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Astro by Astronomer? The initial setup can be challenging on the internal cloud services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Astro by Astronomer solving and how is that benefiting you? Running ML models and Data Engineering jobs at an automated frequency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ## 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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