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Conductor vs Apache Airflow: catalog facts
Conductor	Apache Airflow
Free Free and open source.	Free Free and open source, developed as an Apache Software Foundation project.
Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Durable, fault-tolerant workflow execution Designed for both services and AI agents	Workflows are plain Python, so tasks can be generated dynamically Web UI with status and logs for every task run
A server platform that takes effort to deploy and operate Aimed at developers, not end users	Requires Python knowledge to define workflows You run and maintain the scheduler, workers and web server yourself
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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