10 alternatives to kestra

kestra-io/kestra — 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 millions of executions. (29,991 stars, Apache-2.0, ui, database, integration).

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 2,640 licence-cleared components from kestra-io/kestra itself.

The alternatives in detail

• vercel/workflow
  Workflow SDK: Build durable, reliable, and observable apps and AI Agents in TypeScript
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 2,475 stars · 795 components · search them
• apache/airflow
  Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
  score 5.0/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 47,273 stars · 3,000 components · search them · alternatives
• aelassas/wexflow
  Workflow Automation Engine
  score 4.3/10 · MIT permissive · 844 stars · 709 components · search them
• prefecthq/prefect
  Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python.
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 24,073 stars · 1,960 components · search them · alternatives
• musistudio/claude-code-router
  One local control plane for every AI agent: route across models, fuse new capabilities, orchestrate tools, and stay fully in control.
  score 6.4/10 · MIT permissive · 37,816 stars · 303 components · search them · alternatives
• netflix/maestro
  Maestro: Netflix’s Workflow Orchestrator
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 3,846 stars · 548 components · search them
• triggerdotdev/trigger.dev
  Trigger.dev – build and deploy durable AI agents and workflows
  score 6.4/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 16,592 stars · 3,009 components · search them
• apache/streampark
  The Open Control Plane for Real-Time Data
  score 4.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 4,346 stars · 1,514 components · search them
• avaiga/taipy
  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
• slothflowlabs/duckle
  Open-source ETL/ELT you deploy on your own servers or cloud. Built on DuckDB: no-code/low-code visual pipelines or SQL, 385 components, dbt, CDC, data quality, reverse ETL, lineage, MCP for AI agents. No vendor cloud, no
  score 5.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,522 stars · 290 components · search them

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