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Workflow Orchestration for Data, ML, and Agents

About Prefect

Prefect is a Python-native workflow orchestrator for data, ML, and agents. It serves data engineers, ML teams, and operators, helping them build and run reliable, observable pipelines that adapt to changing data and runtimes.

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Key Features

Prefect lets you write your business logic in Python and deploy it as scalable workflows that run wherever your code lives. It’s designed for data teams, ML engineers, and operators who need reliable, observable pipelines that adjust to changing data and run environments:

Python-native orchestration

You don’t need to rewrite code to make it reliable; a few annotations let existing Python flows run as-is.

Dynamic DAGs

The DAG adapts to data reality, preventing stalls when inputs change or jobs vary in runtime.

Observability and failure clarity

When something breaks, you see the root cause and the full context without heavy digging.

Flexible deployment and environment isolation

Deploy per-flow environments (local, cloud, Kubernetes) and keep dependencies separate from each flow.

Summary

Best for data engineers, ML teams, and operations teams building data pipelines, ML workflows, and automation.

Hobby

Free forever / N/A

  • Workflow scheduling
  • 2 users
  • Up to 5 deployments
  • 500 min of Prefect Serverless
  • Workflow observability
  • Logging & alerting
  • 7 days run retention

Starter

$100 /mo / Monthly

  • All Hobby features, plus:
  • 3 users
  • Up to 20 deployments
  • 75 hours of Prefect Serverless
  • Bring your own compute
  • Webhooks
  • 500 API requests/min

Team

$100 / user / month / Monthly

  • All Starter features, plus:
  • 4-8 users
  • Up to 100 deployments
  • 225 hours of Prefect Serverless
  • Service accounts
  • 24 hour audit log
  • 50 automations

Pro

Talk to Sales / Annual

  • All Team features, plus:
  • 5-20 users
  • Up to 1,000 deployments
  • 250 hours of Prefect Serverless
  • Multiple workspaces
  • SSO (SAML/OIDC)
  • Basic RBAC

Enterprise

Talk to Sales / Annual

  • All Pro features, plus:
  • 5+ users
  • Unlimited deployments
  • Custom Prefect Serverless
  • RBAC + ACLs
  • Directory Sync (SCIM)
  • IP allowlisting & PrivateLink

Customer Managed

Book a Demo / Annual

  • All Enterprise features, plus:
  • Deploy on-premises or in air-gapped environments
  • Complete data sovereignty & network isolation
  • FedRAMP, HIPAA & PCI compliance ready
  • White glove deployment experience

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