Prefect
Prefect enables data teams to build, run, and monitor resilient data workflows with a Python-native framework that emphasizes developer experience, dynamic pipeline generation, and comprehensive observability.
Last updated May 11, 2026
- Business Model
- SaaS
- Target Market
- Enterprise and Mid-Market
- Employee Count
- 51-200
- Funding
- $47M
- API Available
- Yes
Leading modern workflow orchestration platform competing with Apache Airflow and other data pipeline tools
Prefect is a workflow orchestration and dataflow automation platform, not an AdTech company. It provides infrastructure for data engineers and data scientists to build, schedule, and monitor data pipelines and workflows. The platform offers both an open-source Python framework (Prefect Core) and a managed cloud service (Prefect Cloud) that adds enterprise features like authentication, authorization, and enhanced observability. Prefect competes in the modern data orchestration space alongside tools like Apache Airflow, Dagster, and Temporal. Prefect is not part of the advertising technology ecosystem. Instead, it serves the broader data engineering and MLOps markets, helping organizations automate complex data workflows, ETL processes, machine learning pipelines, and other data-intensive operations. The company has positioned itself as a more developer-friendly and flexible alternative to traditional workflow orchestration tools, emphasizing ease of use, dynamic workflow generation, and native Python integration.
Prefect Core
Open-source Python workflow orchestration framework for building and running data pipelines
Prefect Cloud
Managed cloud service providing orchestration, observability, and collaboration features for workflows
Prefect Server
Self-hosted backend for workflow orchestration with UI and API
Prefect Automations
Event-driven automation and alerting for workflow management
- 2018Founded