--- 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 & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Prefect but has limited features. Are you part of the Prefect team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Prefect is modern workflow orchestration. Build, observe, and react to your data pipelines with a purely Python experience. * * * Seller [Prefect](https://www.g2.com/sellers/prefect) Discussions [Prefect Community](https://www.g2.com/products/prefect/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Brian Russell Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by Prefect. ### Prefect Cloud Pay As You Go Per Month ### Open Source Free [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/prefect/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Databricks](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Databricks") Databricks 4.6/5(1,365) ](https://www.g2.com/products/databricks/reviews) [ ![PagerDuty](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "PagerDuty") PagerDuty 4.5/5(972) ](https://www.g2.com/products/pagerduty/reviews) [ ![Hightouch](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Hightouch") Hightouch 4.6/5(399) ](https://www.g2.com/products/hightouch/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/prefect/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 125 real user reviews. Implementation Time 2 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Sunjay N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sunjay N.") SN Sunjay N. Data Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/16/2023 "Prefect - the perfect orchestration tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? Prefect is the best orchestration tool currently for the modern data stack that is tailor-made for data related orchestration. unlike other tools which were being used for data-related orchestration in hindsight. Perfect and the community behind seem to be focused on the right things Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? The documentation for prefect still needs some improvement but its getting better and the developers are constantly working on it and updating it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Helping solving over data pipeline orchestration needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") UF Verified User in Financial Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/18/2024 "Easy to deploy a dynamic orchestration" 4/5 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? Adoption across the industry isnt too strong. Airflow is still pretty dominant Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Orchestration of workflows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Broadcast Media](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Broadcast Media") UB Verified User in Broadcast Media Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/9/2023 "Simple once you grasp the basics" 4/5 What do you like best about Prefect? Orchestration organization is pretty simple to follow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? Implementation has a learning curve that novices may find difficult ot grasp. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? DE flows that we would otherwise run manually Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Consulting](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consulting") CC Verified User in Consulting Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/6/2023 "Clean way of writing pipelines as code!" 4/5 What do you like best about Prefect? Its Python first, and everything around decorator based flow management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? Sometimes its hard to find the solution for some issues because the community is still evolving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![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 Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/19/2023 "Intuitive UI" 4/5 What do you like best about Prefect? The intuitive UI, making it relatively easy to monitor and troubleshoot workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? Too much documentation to go over.The community (related to SO) is kinda small. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Don't want to say too much, but vaguely, processing jobs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![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 Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/27/2023 "Full functionality coupled with a nice interface" 3.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Making our data flows faster and more reliable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") UT Verified User in Telecommunications Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/6/2023 "Its intuitive and its very easy to set up and work with." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? I been working with prefect to get pipelines up and running very fast. Simplicity is one of the best things of the tool. Its has a lot of integrations with cloud providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? Sometimes documentation is not clear, this only happened once. That time I ask their team in slack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Design and mainteincance of ETLs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic JB Jamie B. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/15/2023 "Taking workflow orchestration to the next level" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? Everything you know and like about airflow, without all the extra baggage. Event driven orchestration makes life easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? Some early teething problems with running the agents within our infra, but that is now a thing of the past Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Our team has a role to automate and streamline as many workflows as possible to let our small team be more efficient. Not possible without Prefect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Consulting](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Consulting") UC Verified User in Consulting Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/11/2024 "A little bit exceptic at the begining starting to see it's good side of it" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? I like how many things already come from the beginning blocks, webhooks, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? i would like an easier way to manage deployment images Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? event-driven data pipelines orchestration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic KR Kamilly R. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/15/2023 "Great improve on Prefect v2" 5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? The design and facility on use. The logging is very useful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? Several changes on v2 and documentation isn't so clear Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Monitoring the machine learning models Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about Prefect? 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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