--- 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) ![Alla P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alla P.") AP Alla P. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/5/2023 "Great for scheduled jobs, one-off runs and visibility!" 4/5 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! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![A. V.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "A. V.") AV A. V. Data Engineering Manager Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/17/2023 "Dead simple orchestration with python" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? I have used a variety of orchestrators in the past (such as Luigi, Airflow and prefect 1) and I wasn't really satisfied with any of them. When I tried prefect 2.0 I inmediatelly felt in love with it and now I'm using it as my default orchestrator on my personal projects and I'm in process of bringing it to the company I work for. What I enjoy the most it's that you only need a decorator for defining a task and another one for defining a pipeline (called flow) and you don't need extra services or complexity to have a pipeline running. Also it's extremly less verbose than Airflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? The only major problem I see with prefect is that it's still very new and that could come at the expense of having less support and development compared to other orchestrators. However I'm willing to take the risk since I really like it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? I'm trying to automate data engineering pipelines with a simple solution and Prefect is the best fit for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism") UL Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/16/2023 "Great product come with great support" 5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? First of all, the speed of delivery by the Prefect team is simply amazing. They are always looking into improving the development and deployment aspects of the product. There is strong support through the Slack channel. I do like the rubber duck session to talk to the Prefect team members face-to-face'. Please keep up the great work so far! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? On the flip side, due to the speed of the delivery of new features, it does require the end user of the product to closely follow the current state of the product in order to keep up with the latest. This is very necessary to avoid accumulating more tech debt. Just keep this in mind if you are part of a smaller orgnization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? It makes easier to manage workflow and wire things together. Because of the usage of python as the language, it is also easier for us to apply good programming practice compared to other ETL tool we are using. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 2/16/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Computer Games](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Games") UC Verified User in Computer Games Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/16/2023 "Great orchestration tool, but still in its infancy, so expect some rough edges and breaking changes." 3.5/5 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). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. 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 Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/16/2023 "Incredibly intuitive and easy to use right out of the box" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? Everything works out of the box, you can even run your local flows and have them reflected in the prefect cloud dashboard. It's nice to worry so little about the orchestration and focus on the actual logic. The UI is awesome! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? Prefect 2 is nice however there is still some features that are in development which would have been ideal to have finished at launch such as built in Flow mapping. (Can still be accomplished with external libs at the moment) and a lot of the blocks need some polishing at the moment. It's still early for V2 so hopeful these will be resolved! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Prefect has allowed us to migrate away for Airflows scheduler which was limiting our runs and causing slowness, to a much simpler and optimized scheduler running on Dask. It allows for easy insight into our 1000's of runs and notifies us immedietly when there is any issue. The framework is very flexible so there is not many limitations in what can be accomplished. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Farming](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Farming") UF Verified User in Farming Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/16/2023 "Overall good" 3.5/5 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Kaleb K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Kaleb K.") KK Kaleb K. Senior Business Analyst Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/15/2023 "Helps Bridge The Gap Between On-Prem Legacy Systems And Modern Cloud-Based Systems" 5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? The hybrid architecture is game-changing for our business. Being able to schedule scripts in the cloud that are version controlled in GitHub and execute them on a virtual machine either on-prem or in the cloud is a huge benefit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? It takes some time to get up to speed. It can be intimidating getting started because it's so flexible and you're really only limited by your imagination. Documentation is pretty solid and they regularly post content on YouTube. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? It's helping us bridge the gap between on-prem legacy systems and modern cloud-based systems. It's allowed us to automate the routine tasks between those systems and saves us time and helps reduce errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism") AL Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 11/1/2023 "Great workflow orchestrator" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? We've been using Prefect for a little while now and find it a very strong product. It operates our ELT processes on a robust schedule, and we also implemented Prefect for CI/CD. Bundling all workflows in one place is a great way to only rely on a single tool for orchestrating automated tasks and keeping track of the logs. Finally their team and community on slack are very responsive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? The product has a steep learning curve and there is insufficient material in the form of a online learning platform or tutorials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Grouping all my different tools in one app to keep a better overview of issues and changes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic AD Adam D. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/16/2023 "Simple Python based orchestration for Data Engineering" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? The fact that I can just start with whatever Python code I have and then add a decorator is fantastic. It makes the development part of orchestration super easy for most developers to use and doesn't require a high degree of technical expertise to make functional code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? The process for going from a simple POC to a fully functional Cloud (eg AWS ECS) platform is not documented very well and as such isn't that easy to get working. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Orchestration often seems to be ignored by businesses and as soon as something fails they spend half their time just trying to find what happened. Prefect makes this process super simple and the fact that it is fairly flexible, allowing you to add moreinformation into the flow logs and artifacts makes it even more useful as a single place to find status, info, etc on your workloads. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic RK Ruslan K. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/15/2023 "Prefect: easy to use, great reliability" 5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? Pure python (the most likely known language for analyst), full range of technical possibilities (concurrency, retries, logs, notifications), easy to set up on Windows (no docker/linux necessary), very usefull API to communicate with server, no disadvantages in comparison to Airflow found Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? No button to "select all" after filtration (for delete action for example), no possibility to create authentication on server when using own server on linux + nginx Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Downloading data from API, then transforming it, then uploading to database Regular sending telegram-bot notifications Regular updating excel reports on shared disk space Parallel launch PyTorch neural deep learning on single GPU (took 5 times less time to learn) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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