Automation Integration · pricing
Prefect pricing
Prefect publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free, then $100/month
- Model
- Freemium with per-user and usage-based tiers
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Prefect plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
| Starter | $100/month | 4 | +$100/month, 4 more features |
| Team | $100/user/month | 4 | +$0/user/month, 4 more features |
| Enterprise | On request | 5 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Hobby
FreeThe entry tier. It covers 2 users and 5 deployments, 500 minutes serverless monthly, 7-day run retention.
Starter
$100/monthOver Hobby, this tier adds:
- 3 users and 20 deployments
- 75 hours serverless compute
- Bring-your-own infrastructure
- Webhooks and API access
Team
$100/user/monthOver Starter, this tier adds:
- 4-8 users per plan tier
- 100 deployments
- 225 hours serverless monthly
- Service accounts and 24-hour audit logs
Enterprise
On requestOver Team, this tier adds:
- SSO and SAML authentication
- Role-based access control
- Multiple workspaces
- Directory sync and IP allowlisting
- 99.99% uptime SLA
Where Prefect stops being free
Hobby, Free
- 2 users and 5 deployments
- 500 minutes serverless monthly
- 7-day run retention
Starter, $100/month
The first thing you pay for:
- 3 users and 20 deployments
- 75 hours serverless compute
- Bring-your-own infrastructure
- Webhooks and API access
What the product covers
The full Prefect feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Python function decorators
- Automatic resilience
Infrastructure
- Flexible deployment
Observability
- Observable execution
Scheduling
- Multiple scheduling
Integration
- Webhooks
Community
- Open-source core
People bring Prefect in for orchestrating data pipeline workflows in python, managing ml model training and inference jobs, building etl and event-driven automation, monitoring and alerting on workflow health. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Prefect are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Automation Integration
Across the 7 automation integration tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $97/month. Prefect starts at $100/month, which puts it in line with the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prefect (this page) | Free, then $100/month | Freemium with per-user and usage-based tiers | - | |
| Mage AI | $100/month | Usage-based cloud platform | - | vs Prefect |
| Dagster | Free, then $10/month | Free open-source core plus paid cloud platform | - | vs Prefect |
| Windmill | Free, then $120/month | open-source | - | vs Prefect |
| Autonoly | Free, then $29/month | freemium | - | vs Prefect |
| HighLevel | $97/month | subscription | - | vs Prefect |
| Informatica | $3000/month | subscription | - | vs Prefect |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Prefect badges page.
Before you pay for Prefect
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Prefect runs on cloud, self-hosted, vpc, and is published by Prefect. The full record is on the Prefect review, and the rest of the category is under best automation integration tools.
Prefect pricing questions
- How much does Prefect cost?
- Prefect publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Hobby up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Prefect have a free plan?
- Yes. The Hobby tier costs nothing and covers 2 users and 5 deployments, 500 minutes serverless monthly, 7-day run retention. Paying starts at $100/month for Starter.
- What is the difference between Hobby and Starter on Prefect?
- Starter costs $100/month against Free, and adds 3 users and 20 deployments, 75 hours serverless compute, bring-your-own infrastructure, webhooks and api access.
- Is the Enterprise plan on Prefect worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is sso and saml authentication, role-based access control, multiple workspaces, directory sync and ip allowlisting. It costs On request against $100/month for Starter. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Prefect expensive for a automation integration tool?
- It starts in line with the middle of its category. Across the 7 automation integration tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $97/month; Prefect starts at $100/month.
- Which automation integration tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 automation integration tools listed alongside Prefect have a free tier: Dagster, Windmill, Autonoly, Census, Integromat.
- What am I actually paying for with Prefect?
- The record lists 7 features across 6 areas: core, infrastructure, observability, scheduling, integration, community. In practice it is brought in for orchestrating data pipeline workflows in python, managing ml model training and inference jobs, building etl and event-driven automation.
- Does Prefect charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Prefect prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Prefect against before paying?
- The closest automation integration tools in this directory are Mage AI, Dagster, Windmill, Autonoly. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Prefect covering price, platforms and features.