The top alternatives to Apache Airflow are Astronomer, Prefect and Keboola, ranked by Staquest on relevance, shared use cases, and pricing. Prefect is the strongest free option.
Staquest ranks Astronomer as the top alternative to Apache Airflow — Enterprise-grade managed platform for scaling Apache Airflow pipelines.. The full ranked list above compares 10 options.
Prefect offers a free tier and is the highest-ranked free alternative to Apache Airflow in Staquest's analysis.
Staquest identifies 10 tools similar to Apache Airflow using graph relationships, embedding similarity, and shared categories. The closest are Astronomer, Prefect, Keboola.
Prefect is an open-source alternative to Apache Airflow listed in this ranking.
Alternatives are ranked by verified relationships, semantic similarity, and category overlap.
