Workflow Orchestration Made Simple

Trust your data workflows

Resilient by design, from script to scale

flow.py

1from prefect import flow, task
2
3
4@task(log_prints=True)
5def say_hello(name: str):
6    print(f"Hello {name}!")
7
8
9@flow
10def hello_universe(names: list[str]):
11    for name in names:
12        say_hello(name)
13
14
15if __name__ == "__main__":
16    # create your first deployment to automate your flow
17    hello_universe.serve(name="your-first-deployment")

Modern workflow orchestration for data and ML engineers

Complete visibility

Control panel for your workflows

Orchestrate your code with scheduling, automatic retries, and prioritized instant alerting, giving you full observability into your workflows.

Write It Your way

Pure Python

You bring raw Python functions, Prefect handles the rest. No more boilerplate code.

if statements
for and while loops
native subflows

Don't dread failures

Recover quickly

With custom retry behavior, caching, and extensive automations, go from red to green in minutes instead of days.

Lightweight

Easy local development

Start a local test server with a single command,
and test your work without pain.

Convenient & Secure

Choose your own infrastructure

Configure your execution environment, all the way down to the individual @flow.

With work pools and work queues, you have granular control over your infrastructure.

Total Visibility

See Your Whole Stack

Look inside your pipelines with events from any third party tool.

What developers are saying

Braun Reyes

Saving us days on DAG design vs. Airflow

NateYesterday

Okay, Prefect is officially awesome. I just launched the server locally and realized i didn’t see the whole picture from the docs. Thanks for building such an amazing product.

Andreas

Underrated @PrefectIO use-case of the day: ... observability and retries! Prefect is not only a "scheduler". By adding a flow/task decorator, you can add observability to your python scripts.

Ben Doremus

Our critical bug rate has dropped by 65% since we’ve implemented Prefect

Madison Schott

Our previous architecture took 24 hours to run the models. With Prefect, it's 3.

sshawnkimm

Hello, Currently scoping out using Prefect for our orchestration. Thanks for the great project. :)

Lee Mendelowitz

Prefect Core provides a really nice, clean set of easy to use features for constructing data pipelines (Tasks, Flows, States, Results) and it’s easy to model the dependencies between tasks.

bargava

• Airflow has a steeper learning curve. Team struggled.

• @PrefectIO is more Pythonic and team picked it up quite easily

• Cloud version has a generous free-tier. Lesser friction to get started.