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Conductor vs Prefect: catalog facts
Conductor	Prefect
Free Free and open source.	Freemium Open source core is free; the hosted platform has a free start and paid plans.
Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted, Command line
Durable, fault-tolerant workflow execution Designed for both services and AI agents	Plain Python decorators define flows and tasks Built-in retries and scheduling
A server platform that takes effort to deploy and operate Aimed at developers, not end users	Aimed at Python users Some features belong to the paid hosted platform
Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Hosted service
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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