--- title: Prefect Reviews meta_title: 'Prefect Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 125 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Prefect works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 125 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: IT Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-management --- # Prefect Reviews **Vendor:** Prefect **Category:** [Workload Automation Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/workload-automation) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 125 ## About Prefect Prefect is modern workflow orchestration. Build, observe, and react to your data pipelines with a purely Python experience. ## Prefect Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Prefect to be an **affordable orchestration tool** , capable of integrating various platforms like Databricks and Snowflake. (1 reviews) - Users highlight the **cost efficiency** of Prefect, praising its integration capabilities across multiple platforms like Databricks and Snowflake. (1 reviews) - Users value the **seamless data integration** capabilities of Prefect, enabling connections to various platforms like Databricks and Snowflake. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **development efficiency** of Prefect, finding flow creation, testing, and debugging much simpler. (1 reviews) - Users find the **ease of use** in Prefect flows to be a significant advantage for development and debugging. (1 reviews) - Users find **easy integrations** with many platforms in Prefect, enhancing flexibility and customization for their workflows. (1 reviews) - Features (1 reviews) - Implementation Ease (1 reviews) - Users value the **extensive integrations** offered by Prefect, enhancing their orchestration capabilities seamlessly across platforms. (1 reviews) - Users value the **ease of flow orchestration** with Prefect, appreciating its integration capabilities and cost-effectiveness. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find **automation limitations** in Prefect, struggling with large scale runs and needing better built-in solutions. (1 reviews) - Users feel that **complex learning** due to Python knowledge requirements hinders their ability to maximize Prefect's potential. (1 reviews) - Users find the **steep learning curve** of Prefect challenging, especially needing Python knowledge and lacking some features compared to Airflow. (1 reviews) - Users feel they require **Python knowledge** and find Prefect's features limited compared to Airflow's offerings. (1 reviews) - Users experience **maintenance issues** with Prefect, feeling the solutions are inadequate for large scale operations. (1 reviews) - Management Issues (1 reviews) - Users feel that **missing features** in Prefect make large-scale runs challenging and require unnecessary workarounds. (1 reviews) - Performance Issues (1 reviews) - Platform Limitations (1 reviews) - Poor Performance (1 reviews) ## Prefect Reviews ### 1. Strong at Scale Scheduling and Observability, but Documentation Needs Work **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rusira S. | Video Editor | Motion Graphics, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2026 **What do you like best about Prefect?** The ability to schedule tasks at scale and then have clear observability into how they’re progressing is really valuable. Our tasks run smoothly even at larger scale, without issues. The interfaces also give us a solid overview of how our tasks are running, which makes it easier to monitor everything. On top of that, it includes a lot of out-of-the-box features that help streamline the full workflow. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** The documentation is very poor for most use cases, and there were several times when we had to figure things out on our own. On top of that, support is limited to the self-hosted version, and the community wasn’t that helpful either. We ended up going for a paid plan, but for our use case it wasn’t ideal, and the cost didn’t feel worth it. Because of that, we ultimately managed to make it work with the self-hosted version. I don’t think the product is very popular yet, but when it becomes more widely used, it will grow a good following. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had a system where we collected clients’ marketing data across multiple platforms (Google Analytics, FB Ads, TikTok Ads, to name a few). We then pre-processed the data, stored it in BigQuery, and ran monthly and weekly processing flows. Prefect was used to orchestrate everything, handle scheduling, and monitor how the flows progressed. ### 2. a fantastic product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** I recently had the opportunity to adopt a Prefect centric ETL orchestration pattern and I have to say, it has been a game-changer. It was perfect for our situation where we had multiple locations with different setups, but wanted a common logging and deployment pattern. What impressed me the most was how user-friendly Prefect is. It's much more straightforward compared to complex solutions like Argo Events, and or relatively mature products like Airflow. If youre in the python space working on ETL, you should be using this product. But what really got me excited was Prefect's recent introduction of their AI tool called Marvin. It's fantastic for small "AI functions" and it allows us to leverage chatGPT results as a structured object type. This has added a whole new level of efficiency to our ETL processes cleaning up free text fields into structured categories. Overall, I can confidently say that Prefect has exceeded our expectations. It's been a breeze to use and has greatly improved our ETL workflow. I highly recommend it to anyone in need of a reliable ETL orchestrator. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** There have been several breaking changes pushed over minor releases. Additionally they seem to have siliently stopped fixing bugs related to the "agents" in favor of the "workers" approach. The fact that there are known bugs with agents that will not be fixed in favor of the user adopting an entirely new pattern does get frustrating as a paying customer. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** it solves container orchestration ### 3. Great for ETL and DataScience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Andraz B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** I like that the product is a open source code and that they provide you with a service (Cloud) that solves all the borring stuff like IAM /RBACfor you. The flows and task python apis are great. Simple to understand for data scientist. One of the best platforms for ETL **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Some of the concepts are quite complex (Infrastructure block) and the documentation is not explaining them well. YOu can then find official Prefect YT videos that do better. Some of the solutions are a bit lacky/sloppy once you really use them. For example Prefect AWS worker that spawns ECS tasks will do that in a way that it triggers AWS API rate limiting. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** UI representations of work flows that are split into smaller tasks. We use it to manage data science workloads. The UI is nice. It helps us scale the capacity of the data that we can process. ### 4. Great for scheduled jobs, one-off runs and visibility! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alla P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** Processes that need to be run on an ad-hoc or on demand basis are very easy for our semi technical staff to use, and debugging is much easier with Prefect! **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Layout of the site changes frequently which is confusing to some of our team members, handling queues in an unhealthy state is difficult at times. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had long running tasks that would sometimes stop running for hours and we didn't have visibility into the issue, or why it was happening. Using prefect has eliminated this issue for us! We've also been able to support new use cases (run this flow in 30mins etc). ### 5. Great orchestration tool, but still in its infancy, so expect some rough edges and breaking changes. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** Since Prefect code tends to be just annotated regular code, testing is easy and intuitive, as one can just run the code as if it was regular Python and only testing it on Prefect infrastructure when necessary. There is also a large amount of flexibility in how deployment occurs due to the modularization of all the moving parts (flows, infrastructure, deployments). **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Since it's a relatively new tool, things change quickly and break quickly unless you're willing to lock into an older version. This introduces other problems, one of them the bugs that are present in the codebase. This is hard to avoid in such a new tool but it's a hassle anyway. The lack of a full cloud solution also causes some additional overhead, as workers (or agents in the past) are all the responsability of the customer, even if they use the cloud solution. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prefect is an orchestration tool that fills the same niche as Airflow. The difference is that Prefect allows for faster development since you do not need to setup an entire running instance just to run tests. The integration with CI/CD with the use of Projects (or just Deployments now, since those two seem to have been merged together) also makes development much faster. ### 6. Overall good **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Farming | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** Being able to write a flow just like a python script and then have it run as a job in a kubernetes cluster. Pydantic parameter validation is nice too. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Upgrading from Prefect 1 to 2 was a lot of work on the infra side, and the new UI is a bit unintuitive. Onboarding a new user and getting them to understand the distinction between flows and deployments, and find what they're looking for in the UI wasn't straight forward. There doesn't seem to be any way to stream flow run logs from the CLI which is annoying because we have flows that are triggered from a CI/CD pipeline and we want their execution to be blocking. I had to write a custom script to poll the API for flow run states. We're currently experiencing intermittent issues with flow runs temporarily switching into a Failed state and then back into Running. So far have been unable to consistently reproduce or debug, but it breaks our integration tests regularly. We're running flows in our AKS cluster with Dapr sidecars so that they can access databases and message queues. We've had issues configuring the sidecar to shut down properly at the end of a run, or when a run fails. I think this might be more of a Kubernetes issue than a Prefect one though. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're using prefect to orchestrate customer-triggered machine learning training and deployment workflows on an AutoML platform. It allows us to run everything as a job in our cluster rather than chaining together serverless functions or relying on an enterprise ML platform that doesn't quite fit our use case (which they never quite do). ### 7. Lightweight and powerful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Moe A. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** Coming from airflow background, Prefect is very lightweight and easy to start up and test things locally. UI is nice and intuitive but can be a bit buggy at times. Community is pretty active and helpful. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Some parts of documentation are quite lacking especially the deployments section. There are only a very few examples given and primarily centered around docker and mac/linux machines. Had difficulties setting up deployment with Prefect using windows machines and without containers. Got little to no help through documentation and community in general. But some prefect community engineers came through and helped out. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Replacing a legacy orchestrator/integration tool. ### 8. Prefect review after first project with it **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Daan D. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** It's quite easy to learn, especially if you have previous experience with a scheduling tool like Airflow. The documentation is well written. Even without prior Prefect experience you are able to understand high level what the code is doing. This makes it possible for fellow developers to quickly understand how the scheduling works. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** In my experience Airflow is still the default tool. This makes it a bit more difficult to convince other people to use it in a new project. A relative young tool that is updated regularly. A good thing but sometimes these updates break backwards compatibility. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automating data pipelines at different clients. Compared with other scheduling tools it saved me development time and the code is easy to read so easy to share with other developers. ### 9. Good orchestration with code **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** Prefect is flexible and works well with python code. The UI helps see what is going on. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** No python sdk support for automations. Not a lot of information available when flows crash. A bit too much dynamic magic with async functions that can run sync, tasks that can only be called directly in flow code, context functions that change depending on where they're called from, etc. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows us to orchestrate python code mostly for running dbt projects easily. It integrates well with Kubernetes and doesn't need to have access to our code or our data. ### 10. A good data pipeline orchestration tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chandan P. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** I like that we can manage multiple versions of a pipeline and also depending on the deployment environment, but we can run some data jobs in the prefect instance itself. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** We are still using 1.x at the company, and I dislike 1. Its UI 2. The GraphQL But since both changed in 2.x, I am happy for now :) **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to make data pipelines faster and deliver the data seamlessly to our internal consumers. ### 11. Made data orchestration as intuitive as it comes **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Graphic Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Prefect?** Monitoring the jobs status via the web UI + all pythob makes the API super modular **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Still hasnt found something to dislike:) **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Establishing a lineage-dependent data flow - run a job with respect to its upstream assets' status ### 12. It is user-friendly. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** 広大 . | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** It offers a wide range of blocks and allows for flexible customization. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** There is nothing specific, but if I were to mention something, it would be the high cost of learning. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is easy to understand the execution status because it can visualize the workflow. ### 13. Excellent tool for orchestrating ETL processes. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bon J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** If you have an experienced development team with good knowledge of Python and don't need a combiner called airflow, then Prefect would be a better choice due to more compact code. Also, Perfect Cloud gives you 10,000 free successful task runs per month, which might be good for a small project. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** With a high degree of probability, you will have to spend time on performance tuning, but the effect is worth it. I would like to at least optionally be able to generate a DAG. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Perfect 2 helps organize ETL process automation and orchestration. ### 14. Moving from Airlow to Prefect **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Prefect?** I liked the dashboard view of all the flows and tasks . Being a non data engineering developer, its quite easy for me to navigate and monitor the flows. Even when a run fails, a unique name is generated so i can exactly search for that **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Just started learning and using, so far none **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data engineering jobs , also cost effective ### 15. A great experience for workflow automation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** The wealth of documentation, examples, and tutorials make it easy to get started as a new user. In addition, the Python API is very simple and easy to learn. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** The user interface in the new Prefect 2.0 cloud is a bit more difficult to use than the original interface, and IMO a bit of a step backwards. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prefect is automating all of our ETL pipelines, and data validation processes. We use Prefect to automate ingestion of new data, and generation of features from that data. In addition, we also automate data validation processes and reports send to Slack through Prefect. ### 16. Great Orchestration Tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** One of the standout features of Prefect is its intuitive and developer-friendly interface. Unlike some other orchestration tools that require hours of tutorials and complex scripting just to get started, Prefect embraces simplicity. The visual workflow designer is a stroke of genius, allowing me to design, modify, and manage workflows with unprecedented ease. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Prefect's flexibility can sometimes be a double-edged sword. For users who want to fine-tune their workflows to meet specific requirements, the plethora of options and configuration settings might be overwhelming. It's possible to spend a considerable amount of time experimenting with different settings to optimize performance and behavior. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prefect addresses several common challenges in the field of workflow orchestration and data pipeline management, benefiting users by providing solutions that enhance efficiency, reliability, and flexibility. ### 17. Prefect Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civil Engineering | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** 1. It stays as close to Python best practices as possible. 2. Easy to get started with and experiment. 3. Hybrid nature allows for secure data handling. 4. integrations **What do you dislike about Prefect?** 1. Two many ways to do things 2. Too frequent changes to API 3. Documentation not consistent 4. Hard to search in documentation 5. No best practices 6. Complicated to deploy **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use prefect to orchestrate ETL processes. extract data with web scrapers, doing some preliminary cleaning and loading them into a warehouse. we use prefect because it's easy to use locally ### 18. Master Orchestrator **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luca V. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** Working with python and spinning up flows in the cloud just like that. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Got caught in the middle kf a big transition. Too many releases! **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Notification, orchestration, logging and fit with my aws infra out of the box. Love that it works with python. Would be great if other languages can be supported. ### 19. Prefect enables powerful orchestration **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan W. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** Prefect has enabled our team to orchestrate the execution of a variety of services, with complex interdependencies, into a single flow. Automating complex workflows helps reduce user error and helps engineers focus on their areas of expertise. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Compared to some competitors, the language support for Prefect is minimal (Python only). Support for defining flows in additional languages would enable polyglot engineering environments to leverage Prefect even more. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used Prefect to help coordinate infrastructure automation processes across multiple environments for software engineering and machine learning teams. ### 20. Powerful orchestration tool with low overhead **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** Prefect maintains pythonic style of coding with minimal intrusions **What do you dislike about Prefect?** It would be nice if the documentation was more specific and up to date **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** workflow orchestrater that plugs into python rather than a standalone tool with their own programing model (drag and drop UI absed tool) ### 21. A useful data-flow orchestration platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Investment Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** Prefect doesn't force us into using a specific platform, but rather it integrates quite nicely with our existing codebases and doesn't force us to migrate/buy-in to some isolated/opaque service. The support and community are also incredible additions to the great documentation they make available. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** I think there are some features pertaining to concurrency and parallelism limits that still need some work when running a high volume of API calls. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prefect allows us to declare and provide a means for implementing data flows. ### 22. Easy to deploy a dynamic orchestration **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2024 **What do you like best about Prefect?** Easy to deploy in multiple environments(ecs, kubernetes etc). Easy to test locally(not really possible airflow) Developer community is pretty strong **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Adoption across the industry isnt too strong. Airflow is still pretty dominant **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Orchestration of workflows ### 23. Simple once you grasp the basics **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** Orchestration organization is pretty simple to follow. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Implementation has a learning curve that novices may find difficult ot grasp. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** DE flows that we would otherwise run manually ### 24. Clean way of writing pipelines as code! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** Its Python first, and everything around decorator based flow management. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Sometimes its hard to find the solution for some issues because the community is still evolving. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling pipelines, and getting an overview of the whole stack. It's a great plug and play tool with integrations i usually use at work. ### 25. Intuitive UI **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** The intuitive UI, making it relatively easy to monitor and troubleshoot workflows. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Too much documentation to go over.The community (related to SO) is kinda small. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Don't want to say too much, but vaguely, processing jobs. ### 26. Full functionality coupled with a nice interface **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** One of the standout features of Prefect is its user-friendly interface. Setting up and defining workflows is a breeze, thanks to its Pythonic syntax. The ability to define dependencies and schedule data flows is game changing. Easy to integrate with git as well to manage configurations. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Setting up more complex workflows with intricate dependencies and conditions can require a deep understanding of Prefect's features and capabilities. Hopefully the learning curve decreases over time. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making our data flows faster and more reliable ### 27. A little bit exceptic at the begining starting to see it's good side of it **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consulting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Prefect?** I like how many things already come from the beginning blocks, webhooks, etc **What do you dislike about Prefect?** i would like an easier way to manage deployment images **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** event-driven data pipelines orchestration ### 28. Great features poorly documented **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** The architecture and framework are great for our orchestration purposes. It allows for different levels of customization where necessary while also providing powerful delivered functionality, e.g. blocks, where applicable. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** The documentation is good where actually documented, but, mostly, it is undocumented. On the bright side, they always have somebody available either on Slack or by support ticket who can solve my problem in a single call, but documentation is my preferred means of learning. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Replacing Astronomer as our cloud orchestration solution. Prefect makes deployment and testing a lot easier and quicker. ### 29. Good orchestration with lot of options **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zia M. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** Ease of use & controls for cache, logging etc **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Documentation is good, but caa add n be improved a bit **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrate diperate systems ### 30. Prefect is a great orchestration tool that works great with dbt core for Analytics Engineering **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Safety | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** It works. It's simple. It's code based and works great with dbt and git/github. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Would be nice to have something more out of the box for handling concurrency. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prefect helps us orchestrate our data models that we build via dbt/Redshift and visualize with Sigma. ### 31. Increased Efficiency **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** Simple to use and the graph indicating which flows ran or failed is helpful. **What do you dislike about Prefect?** It doesn't include data checks indicating where the fail specifically happened. **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Prefect is helping to automatically refresh our data tables and that helps to allow better work flow. ### 32. A step above our previous tool - cronToGo **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** great ui good visibility on workflows easy to see dependencies between tasks **What do you dislike about Prefect?** Having to rewrite our existing cron jobs in python **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** ability to orchestrate complex workflows with a lot of dependencies between them ### 33. flex and amazing tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Prefect?** flex name of running monitoring eazyly **What do you dislike about Prefect?** visibility must be improve logs and alerts should be combined in one email **What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you?** running jobs and processes ## Prefect Discussions - [What is Prefect used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-prefect-used-for) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View Prefect pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/prefect/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+17%3A15%3A11+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7d45935e-fb67-456c-af90-d529009d6934&secure%5Btoken%5D=7c4fb8ea82df3485b1ca0375c6e5932f56f18321ba01ecb3c9759b3bc5a17b05&format=llm_user) ## Prefect Features **Automation** - Workload Processing - Scalability - Intelligent Automation **Functionality** - Batch Scheduling - Batch Management - Compatibility - Reporting - Scalability - Process Automation **Data Management** - Data Integration - Metadata - Self-service - Automated workflows **Agentic AI - DataOps Platforms** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Decision Making **Database** - Real-Time Data Collection - Data Distribution - Data Lake **Administration** - Administration Console - Workflow Management - IT Issue Identification - Proactive Workflow - Error Alerts - Service Management **Analytics** - Analytics capabilities - Dasboard visualizations **Integrations** - Hadoop Integration - Spark Integration **Functionality** - Job Scheduling - API / Integrations - Integrations **Monitoring and Management** - Data Observability - Testing capabilities **Platform** - Machine Scaling - Data Preparation - Spark Integration **Cloud Deployment** - Hybrid cloud support - Cloud migration capabilities **Agentic AI - Workload Automation** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Processing** - Cloud Processing - Workload Processing **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Building Reports** - Data Transformation - Data Modeling - WYSIWYG Report Design - Integration APIs - Real-Time Data - Real-Time Data - Third-Party Integrations - Third-Party Integrations **Platform** - Mobile User Support - Customization - User, Role, and Access Management - Internationalization - Sandbox / Test Environments - Performance and Reliability - Breadth of Partner Applications - Mobile Access - Metadata Management ## Top Prefect Alternatives - [Databricks](https://www.g2.com/products/databricks/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (1,337 reviews) - [PagerDuty](https://www.g2.com/products/pagerduty/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (950 reviews) - [Hightouch](https://www.g2.com/products/hightouch/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (399 reviews)