--- 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(1,363) ](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) ![Dr. Wolfgang S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dr. Wolfgang S.") DS Dr. Wolfgang S. Data Science Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/19/2023 "Finally a workflow orchestration tool that just works" 5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? Prefect was seemless to setup and to operate. The documentation is clear, the team is super helpful and it's moving in the right direction. As a Data Scientist, I can focus on improving my models and tweaking my optimization logic. Prefect takes care of data, training and inference pipelines. I am getting notified in case of problems. I also like that it's cloud provider agnostic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? It's still a young(er) tool, which had some bigger, breaking changes during the last year. This is causing quite some extra dev work. I hope they are done with those big changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Prefect helps me to automatically schedule and run data & machine learning workflows in the cloud. With this serverless setup, I am saving costs and dev / maintainance work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Alex G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alex G.") AG Alex G. CEO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/4/2023 "Awesome for orchestrating" 5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? We need to queue jobs for agents running in various clouds and see their run status and logs. Prefect brings all of that together for us. Because our jobs are often long running, we haven't been able to use most of the jobs and runners tools already out there, so we appreciate the flexibility of Prefect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? It's complex, and I always worry about learning a complex propriety tool. It helps it's open source. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? We need to queue and run jobs on our baremetal infrastructure as well as in google cloud, and we need to see the run-status and logs of each job. Prefect Cloud gets us all that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Nischay T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nischay T.") NT Nischay T. Lead Data Scientist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/5/2023 "If you want to minimise the production time for your data pipeline. Try Prefect!" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? I've been using Prefect for some time now, and I must say that it has truly revolutionized the way I manage and orchestrate data workflows. What I like best about Prefect is its exceptional flexibility and ease of use. Creating workflows is simple as it can ever be which reduces manual efforts to defining state as a separate component for orchestration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? While Prefect offers many advantages, there are a few areas where it could see some improvement: I’ve noticed a steep learning curve for building pipelines using best practices. However, with such a growing community, I think this wouldn’t be a problem in the upcoming days. Another one I’ve experience is the resource usage when dealing with complex workflows. Users may need to carefully manage resource allocation to avoid any unexpected costs. But this is common across all other tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Prefect has significantly improved our data workflow orchestration compared to our previous use of Apache Airflow. Before Prefect, Airflow presented several challenges: 1. Complexity: Airflow's complex configuration and DAG setup required substantial development effort and time. 2. Dependency Management: Managing task dependencies and handling dynamic workflows was cumbersome in Airflow. 3. Monitoring: Airflow's monitoring and alerting capabilities were limited, making it difficult to track and troubleshoot issues effectively. 4. Resource Management: Resource allocation was challenging, often leading to over-provisioning or bottlenecks. With Prefect: 1. Simplified Workflow Management: Prefect's user-friendly interface and simplified task definitions have reduced our development time significantly. 2. Dependency Resolution: Prefect's intuitive dependency management system ensures tasks run in the correct order, eliminating errors and enhancing workflow reliability. 3. Robust Monitoring: Prefect's built-in monitoring and alerting features provide real-time visibility into workflow execution, allowing us to proactively address issues. 4. Resource Optimization: Prefect enables efficient resource allocation, preventing resource wastage and ensuring optimal workflow performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Real Estate](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Real Estate") AR Verified User in Real Estate Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/3/2023 "Flexible, Low Overhead Orchestration Tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? The tool requires 1/10th the setup time as Airflow, and provides near parity in functionally. After briefly reading the (very good) documentation to get the terminology, the concepts are clear and well defined. The Perfect team is very responsive to feedback, and the gaps in functionally are shrinking constantly. Frequent updates, while making sure not to break backwards compatibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? While the rapid pace of change is great, it can be hard to keep up with the latest versioning. Some complementary packages like prefect-azure may go much longer without an update than the base prefect package. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Perfect allows me to orchestrate 1000s of Azure Container Instances every day to move data from multiple sources into a data lake, and ultimately to snowflake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic VY Vincent Y. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/22/2023 "Prefect: A great introduction to ETL and further." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? Prefect has well maintained documentation and a helpful community willing to advise and assist people new to ETL and Data Orchestrations. Prefect cares about their user interface and it shows. I really enjoy working with the UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? Prefect is always working on new features/releases. So, it can be a bit overwhelming to keep up to date with all the useful features they release. The feature tutorials usually cover the fundamental uses. It would be nice to have some tutorials that cover more "complex" uses to contrast against. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Prefect's environment helps us automate repetitve tasks saving us time and effort spent. Prefect is always improving their user interface with user feedback. Thier UI helps us better visualise our workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Gabe V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Gabe V.") GV Gabe V. Founder & CTO Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/4/2023 "Best workflow orchestration platform for data pipelines" 5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? Prefect is intuitive to use and has a phenomenal Python SDK which makes integration extremely easy. For those looking to setup complex development workflows in Python, Prefect is the ideal solution. Moreover, their Marvin library has been instrumental in helping us build and ship quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? The documentation is still a work in progress, and this can sometimes become a bit of a hindrance in development. Thankfully, the Prefect slack & discord communities are quite active Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Prefect helps orchestrate workflows so that we can easily see when tasks in our data ingestion pipeline break. This allows for quick debugging and having good visibility into which processes are consuming many resources and time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Nirav Rajesh L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nirav Rajesh L.") NL Nirav Rajesh L. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 11/1/2023 "Air traffic controller for your data flights. Saves precious time for the Data Analyst Team" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? Prefect is a like an air traffic controller for your data. Prefect supports the likes of Amazon, Databricks, and Adobe that I use on a daily basis. The availability of prebuilt flows and infrastructure blocks like git, Docker, and ECS, not only saves time but also make it easier to deploy containers locally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? Lack of Intuitive UI on Prefect Cloud. Could be overwhelming to new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Integration with Other Tools was a big problem with the flow of data and constantly changing data tables in our data warehouse. It especially for the BI application layer that is essential for data modeling. Prefect helps in managing our tech stack and work with product team with the business insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Gershinen S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Gershinen S.") GS Gershinen S. Python Data Scientist Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/1/2023 "Why use prefect" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? I love perfect because it allows me to write my code the way I want with it's pythonic syntax and how easy it is to turn a function into flow or a task. It's also very flexible, easy to set up and start, easy to deploy, and it allows you to see your pipelines visually. Let's not forget it concurrency support, amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? I tried deploying my pipeline on namecheap and it wasn't easy. I didn't want to pay for hosting my pipeline separately. Maybe having a tutorial on deploying on such platform will be nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Prefect is solving our data pipeline automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Veniamin N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Veniamin N.") VN Veniamin N. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/15/2023 "Prefect: My User Experience" 5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? The most valuable aspect of Prefect is its ability to create task chains that execute sequentially and only if the previous ones are successful. Prefect is the first orchestrator I have used, and I am really enjoying it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? The least useful aspect of Prefect in my opinion is the creation of additional execution queues in the worker pools, as I personally rarely use it and don't see many use cases for it. However, this is my subjective experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Prefect helps us manage all work processes from one place, which is very convenient. It also allows us to receive execution status updates, ensuring that we always know whether everything has been successfully completed or if any failures occurred. 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") UC Verified User in Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/17/2023 "Prefect? More Like Perfect for our ETL Needs" 5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? I've been around the ETL block a few times, played with plenty of orchestration tools, and let's just say... not all of them made the cut. But Prefect? Game changer. Why I’m seriously digging Prefect: Keep it Simple: While some tools feel like you need a Ph.D. to figure out, Prefect is refreshingly straightforward. Setting it up? Smooth. Integrating it? Seamless. Pure Python Love: Being Python-native feels like Prefect was made for us. Those decorators? It’s like writing poetry, but the kind that transforms data. Crisp & Clean: The modern approach of Prefect ensures you’re not dealing with messy, convoluted code. Every line feels intentional and easy to follow. To wrap it up, if you’re in the ETL world and haven’t given Prefect a shot, I'd say it’s high time you do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? While Prefect might present an initial challenge to some users, its overall capabilities, modern approach, and efficiency make it a tool worthy of consideration and integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Complex ETL Workflow Management, Error Handling and Monitoring &Scalability and Parallelism 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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