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Alternatives · 2026

The best Apache Airflow alternatives

The rest of Best Workflow Orchestration Software, in this site's order: each with what it costs, where it runs and its record score.

1 AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+3 $99 a month Record6.2 Visit
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Windmill

Windmill suits teams building internal tools and workflows, from developers who want to script in several languages to teams using low-code builders.

WebWindowsLinux+2 $120 a month Record6.1 Visit
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Flyte

Flyte suits developers and teams building AI workflows for training, serving or agents.

WebLinuxAPI+1 Free plan Record6.0 Visit
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Inngest

Inngest suits developers building event-driven workflows, background jobs, or agents who need durable execution and traces.

WebWindowsMac+3 $99 a month Record5.8 Visit
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Workflow Engine

Workflow Engine suits .NET developers embedding process workflows in an application and organizations able to self-host on premises or in their own…

WebWindowsMac+3 $8,000 a year Record5.8 Visit
6 WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record5.6 Visit
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Kestra

Kestra may suit teams coordinating workflows across different languages and external tools.

WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record5.6 Visit
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Google Cloud Workflows

Workflows suits teams coordinating Google Cloud services, APIs, batch jobs, or business and IT processes.

WebAPI Free plan Record5.5 Visit
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Temporal

It suits teams building AI agents, human-in-the-loop workflows, order fulfillment, durable ledgers, CI/CD, and other long-running processes.

WebWindowsMac+3 $500 a month Record5.4 Visit
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ActiveBatch

ActiveBatch suits IT and business teams coordinating scheduled or event-triggered processes across on-premises and cloud environments.

AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+5 $10,000 one-time Record5.3 Visit
11 WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record5.3 Visit
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Apache DolphinScheduler

It suits teams building and operating self-hosted data workflows through visual tools or code.

WebLinuxAPI+1 Free plan Record5.2 Visit
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Dagster

Dagster suits teams building and operating data pipelines that need asset lineage, quality checks, and execution visibility.

WebLinuxAPI+1 $10 a month Record5.1 Visit
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Argo Workflows

Argo Workflows suits teams orchestrating container-based pipelines, batch jobs, infrastructure automation, or CI/CD on Kubernetes.

WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record5.0 Visit
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jBPM

It suits developers building self-hosted Java workflow services that need BPMN processes, human tasks, rules, and durable execution.

WebWindowsMac+4 Free plan Record5.0 Visit
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Bizagi Modeler

It suits people who need to model and document business processes with BPMN, including teams that want simulation and what-if scenarios.

WebWindows Free plan Record4.9 Visit
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Prefect

Prefect suits developers and teams orchestrating data, machine learning, or agent workflows in Python.

WebAPISelf-hosted $100 a month Record4.9 Visit
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Azkaban

It suits teams running scheduled, dependency-based batch workflows that need web tracking, APIs, alerts, and self-hosted deployment.

WebWindowsMac+3 Free plan Record4.8 Visit
19 AndroidiPhone & iPadWeb+4 — Record4.8 Visit
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Trigger.dev

It suits developers building long-running workflows or AI agents in TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Bun, or Python.

WebAPISelf-hosted $10 a month Record4.8 Visit
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Hatchet

Hatchet is aimed at developers building AI agents, durable workflows, or background tasks.

WebLinuxAPI+1 Free plan Record4.7 Visit
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Luigi

Luigi suits Python teams coordinating long-running batch jobs and dependency-heavy workflows.

WebLinuxAPI+1 Free plan Record4.7 Visit
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Restate

It suits developers building failure-resilient services, workflows, or AI agents.

WebAPISelf-hosted $75 usage-based Record4.7 Visit
24 WindowsMacLinux+2 Free plan Record4.7 Visit