9 alternatives to airflow
apache/airflow — Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows (47,273 stars, Apache-2.0, integration, ui, database).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 3,000 licence-cleared components from apache/airflow itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
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| 1 | netflix/maestro | 4.7 | Apache-2.0 | 3,846 |
| 2 | kestra-io/kestra | 4.5 | Apache-2.0 | 29,991 |
| 3 | avaiga/taipy | 4.8 | Apache-2.0 | 19,446 |
| 4 | insitro/redun | 4.7 | Apache-2.0 | 607 |
| 5 | prefecthq/prefect | 4.7 | Apache-2.0 | 24,073 |
| 6 | bytewax/bytewax | 4.7 | Apache-2.0 | 2,060 |
| 7 | dbos-inc/dbos-transact-golang | 4.8 | MIT | 862 |
| 8 | aelassas/wexflow | 4.3 | MIT | 844 |
| 9 | conduitio/conduit | 4.8 | Apache-2.0 | 617 |
The alternatives in detail
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Maestro: Netflix’s Workflow Orchestratorscore 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 3,846 stars · 548 components · search them
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Orchestrate everything, everywhere. The open-source control plane for workflows across data, infrastructure, business processes and AI agents. Declarative YAML, event-driven, any language, Git-versioned, scalable to mill
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Turns Data and AI algorithms into production-ready web applications in no time.score 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 19,446 stars · 514 components · search them
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Yet another redundant workflow enginescore 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 607 stars · 59 components · search them
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Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python.
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Python Stream Processingscore 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 2,060 stars · 41 components · search them
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Database-Backed Durable Golang Workflowsscore 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 862 stars · 44 components · search them
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Workflow Automation Enginescore 4.3/10 · MIT permissive · 844 stars · 709 components · search them
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Conduit streams data between data stores. Kafka Connect replacement. No JVM required.score 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 617 stars · 629 components · search them
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