Alternatives to Flyte

An open-source orchestration platform for durable data, machine learning and AI agent workflows written in Python. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Flyte.

  • Apache Airflow

    A self-hosted platform for writing, scheduling and monitoring workflows defined as Python code.

    FreeOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Apache Airflow also defines workflows in Python under Apache-2.0, but you run the scheduler, workers and web server yourself and it lacks Flyte's ML focus.

  • Prefect

    A workflow orchestration tool for scheduling, retrying and observing Python data and ML pipelines.

    FreemiumOpen sourceWebSelf-hostedCommand line

    Prefect defines flows with plain Python decorators and offers built-in retries, with some features belonging to its paid hosted platform.

  • Dagster

    An open-source orchestrator for building, scheduling and monitoring data pipelines, with a hosted Dagster+ option.

    FreemiumOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Dagster uses an asset-based model with lineage tracking and a hosted Dagster+ option, though its announced merger with Prefect makes the roadmap uncertain.

  • Kestra

    An open-source declarative orchestration platform for scheduled and event-driven workflows, self-hosted or in the cloud.

    FreemiumOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Kestra uses declarative workflows with more than 2,000 plugins and event triggers, instead of Python code, with some features on enterprise plans.

  • Luigi

    A Python tool from Spotify for building, scheduling and visualising pipelines of batch jobs.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxCommand line

    Luigi chains Python batch jobs with dependency resolution and visualisation, but targets batch work rather than ML and AI agent workflows.

  • Conductor

    An open-source, event-driven workflow engine for durable execution of application and AI agent workflows.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

    Conductor is an event-driven engine for durable microservice and AI agent workflows, with many storage backends but more deployment effort.

  • Dagu

    A self-hosted workflow orchestrator that runs scripts, SSH commands and containers from declarative YAML files.

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hostedCommand line

    Dagu is a single binary running YAML workflows over scripts and containers, lighter than Flyte but without Python-defined ML pipelines.

  • Windmill

    An open-source, self-hostable platform for turning scripts into workflows, internal apps and scheduled jobs.

    FreemiumOpen sourceWebSelf-hosted

    Windmill turns scripts in over 20 languages into workflows, internal apps and schedules, with some features tied to its enterprise edition.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.