--- 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) ![Nelson G.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nelson G.") NG Nelson G. Head of Engineering Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/24/2023 "Best Workflow Experience I Have Found" 5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? The developer experience is seamless. Getting started is so easy and the flexibility of the framework goes so far beyond anything else I have used. And the icing on the cake is that the community and the developers supporting it are so helpful for anything you are trying to accomplish. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? It is still relatively new off of its 2.0 release. So there are still some features that are on their way. The management of different environments (staging vs prod) still doesn't feel extremely well supported. A few other minor things as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? We run all of our data pipelines and ML model workflows through prefect. It makes orchestrating our hundreds of pipelines easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 8/12/2024 Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Graphic Design](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Graphic Design") UG Verified User in Graphic Design Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/21/2024 "Made data orchestration as intuitive as it comes" 4/5 What do you like best about Prefect? Monitoring the jobs status via the web UI + all pythob makes the API super modular Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? Still hasnt found something to dislike:) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Civil Engineering](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Civil Engineering") CC Verified User in Civil Engineering Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/9/2024 "It‘s fun to create workflows with Prefect, there are really no bad surprises" 5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? The way to develop workflows is in comparison to other framework very easy and sexy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? Sometimes the documentation is very detailed and good but the structure complicates the reading flow and slows down the learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Getting things done in an easy way! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Retail](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Retail") AR Verified User in Retail Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/16/2023 "Powerful flow management with a learning curve" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? Once you get the hang of Prefect, it genuinely "just works". It offers reliability and seamless operation, which is exactly what one would expect from a flow management tool. Even for our simpler flows, the capability to automate retries and the visibility it provides into the process is a significant advantage. This feature not only ensures that our operations are efficient but also helps in pinpointing and rectifying issues effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? As powerful and comprehensive as Prefect is, it comes with a rather steep learning curve. New users might find it overwhelming due to the multitude of configuration options available. While the platform is robust, it was disappointing to find that the self-hosted version lacks the ability to send mails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps us manage ETL and scheduled jobs, knowing that we have visibility on errors and built-in retries. Handling credentials in a much smarter way than I could imagine doing with cron/bash Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness") UH Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/15/2023 "Best cloud flow manager I've used so far" 5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? Prefect is the easiest-to-use flow manager I've used. the preexisting github repos and how-to youtube videos helped me get set up quickly and allow me to manage flows as a one-person team. I'm not a data engineer but my responsabilities include some data engineering, so the low bar to entry really gives Prefect an edge over a tool like airflow which requires a more extensive knowlegde of tools like ECS and Docker in order to create and maintain a project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? Some of the training materials weren incomplete or out of date and required a little hacking on my part, also I wish it were easier to set up email and slack alerts for failed tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Prefect allows me to run my datasceice reliably and securely. our organization's data model relies on a series of algorithms updating things like churn risk, LTR estimates and content recommendations and Prefect makes it easy to write those models, test and laucnh them on AWS servers and have them reliably run and update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic MP Marie P. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/31/2023 "Prefect for our use cases" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? Reliable, easy to use, what we reach for whenever we need to run some kind of data processing in a schedule. The UI is slick and makes it easy to maintain/monitor our flows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? Some deployment pains- we wish there was a Terraform provider that controlled the state of deployments (this is on their product roadmap). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Data processing scripts that run on a schedule with some built-in monitoring/robustness Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Patrick M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Patrick M.") PM Patrick M. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/16/2023 "Simple, powerful, easy to use locally and to deploy anywhere. Prefect is a must" 5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? Its simplicity to use compared to other dinosaures of orchestration. It just works everywhere with very little effort: on my laptop when developing, anywhere in the cloud Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? Still struggling a bit on how to manage all the secrets I have stored as Blocks on my local setup, especially in case I miss internet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? - Validation of my scheduled data pipelines - increase robustness of my data pipelines - increase scalability of their executions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![広大 .](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "広大 .") 広 広大 . Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 10/2/2023 "It is user-friendly." 4/5 What do you like best about Prefect? It offers a wide range of blocks and allows for flexible customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. 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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Stephen H.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Stephen H.") SH Stephen H. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/21/2023 "Easy to get going, very flexible tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? Prefect's documentation is excellent, and the support team is responsive and knowledgeable. We've been able to quickly get up to speed with the tool and troubleshoot any issues that arise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? There has been some parity differences between prefect 1 and 2 and although the team behind Prefect has been releasing new features / changes at an exceptional rate it would have been nice if some of those things were in the product at launch Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? It is allowing us to orchestrate our data pipelines.. providing notifications and observability into the processes which run our data stack.. without which we could not operate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![David M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "David M.") DM David M. Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 9/13/2023 "We were orchestrating pipelines in an afternoon" 5/5 What do you like best about Prefect? How easy it is for me to deploy existing python pipelines by just tagging the functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Prefect? Maybe I haven't figured out a way to do it but I don't fancy the worker listening all the time. I would appreciate to have it up when the pipeline is scheduled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Prefect solving and how is that benefiting you? Pipeline scheduling and orchestration. 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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