Apache Airflow

11 tools replace Apache Airflow

Kestra Full replacement

Event Driven Orchestration & Scheduling Platform for Mission Critical Applications

Workflows declared in YAML, with tasks in any language and event triggers.

Language: Java
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 29k
Latest: v2.0.5
Last push: 2026-10-06

Prefect Full replacement

Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python.

Workflows as plain Python functions with decorators, without DAG files.

Language: Python
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 24k
Latest: 3.8.8
Last push: 2026-10-06

Argo Workflows Full replacement

Workflow Engine for Kubernetes

Workflows declared as Kubernetes resources, each step a container, instead of Python DAGs.

Language: Go
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 17k
Latest: v4.1.4
Last push: 2026-10-06

Dagster Full replacement

An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.

Orchestration around data assets, with lineage and a local UI.

Language: Python
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 16k
Latest: 1.13.25
Last push: 2026-10-06

Apache DolphinScheduler Full replacement

Apache DolphinScheduler is the modern data orchestration platform. Agile to create high performance workflow with low-code

Workflows drawn in a web UI or written with a Python SDK, with multi-tenant scheduling.

Language: Java
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 15k
Latest: 3.4.3
Last push: 2026-10-06

Luigi Partial

Luigi is a Python module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs. It handles dependency resolution, workflow management, visualization etc. It also comes with Hadoop support built in.

Pipelines of Python tasks with dependencies, started by cron rather than a scheduler of its own.

Language: Python
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 19k
Latest: v3.8.1
Last push: 2026-10-06

Windmill Partial

Open-source developer platform to power your entire infra and turn scripts into webhooks, workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (13x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Retool and Temporal.

Schedules and runs workflows written as code.

Language: Rust
Licence: Other
Stars: 18k
Latest: v1.825.0
Last push: 2026-10-06

Mage Partial

🧙 Build, run, and manage data pipelines for integrating and transforming data.

Pipelines built from Python, SQL and R blocks in a notebook-style editor, with scheduling.

Language: Python
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 8.8k
Latest: 0.9.79
Last push: 2026-10-05

Flyte Partial

Type-safe, distributed orchestration of agents, ML pipelines, and real-time inference on your k8s — in pure Python with async/await, also other languages (rust, go and ts)

Typed, containerised Python workflows on Kubernetes, aimed at ML and data pipelines.

Language: Go
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 7.6k
Latest: v1.16.9
Last push: 2026-10-06

Dagu Partial

Self-hostable workflow orchestrator for teams whose main work isn't orchestration. Declarative YAML over your scripts, SSH commands, containers, etc; keep workflows separate from business logic. One binary, no database, runs on limited H/W resources. Alternative to Airflow / Cron / Job Scheduler.

Workflows as YAML DAGs run from a single binary with a web UI, without a database.

Language: Go
Licence: GPL-3.0
Stars: 4.3k
Latest: v2.18.2
Last push: 2026-10-06

Maestro Partial

Maestro: Netflix’s Workflow Orchestrator

Netflix's workflow orchestrator, with workflows in JSON, foreach loops and parameters set at run time.

Language: Java
Licence: Apache-2.0
Stars: 3.8k
Last push: 2026-09-30

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