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canonical: "https://www.softatlas.io/prefect/products/prefect-open-source"
name: "Prefect Open Source"
provider: "Prefect"
category: "Developer & Engineering / Backend & Cloud Platforms / Platform as a Service (PaaS)"
review_count: 0
ai_powered: false
website: "https://prefect.io/prefect/open-source"
updated: "2026-10-17"
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# Prefect Open Source

By [Prefect](/prefect.md)

Prefect Open Source is a workflow orchestration framework that allows users to write workflows as plain Python functions. It provides durable execution, scheduling, retries, caching, and recovery as part of the platform.

## Features
- Orchestrate workflows using Python decorators
- Enable durable execution with automatic retries and recovery
- Trigger workflows from webhooks, cloud events, or state changes
- Persist results to ensure exactly-once execution
- Visualize task failures and logs for easy debugging
- Scale data science and machine learning tasks to parallel runs
- Unify microservices on a single control plane
- Decouple code execution from infrastructure with work pools

## Built for
DEVELOPERS, OPERATIONS

Source: https://www.softatlas.io/prefect/products/prefect-open-source