Apache Airflow Alternatives

Apps similar to Apache Airflow include n8n, which has a free version. Other options are Automa, Google Opal, Gumloop and AgentHub. There's no shortage of Workflow Automation Tools like Apache Airflow, with more than 25 alternatives for the web, Linux, self-hosting, Windows and Mac.

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  1. AdClaw icon
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    AdClaw gives founders a hosted team of persistent marketing agents: browser workspace, Telegram collaboration, shared memory, bundled LLM messages, Citedy credits, and 100+ skills.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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    Cronicle is a multi-server task scheduler and runner, with a web based front-end UI. It handles both scheduled, repeating and on-demand jobs, targeting any number of slave servers, with real-time stats and live log viewer.

    17 Cronicle alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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    PAW (Python Automation WorkFlow) is a cloud Studio to design and run automated workflows. Connect triggers, HTTP, email, Python code, AI/RAG and schedules.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  4. Apache Oozie Workflow Scheduler for Hadoop.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  5. Luigi icon
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    Luigi is a Python module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs. It handles dependency resolution, workflow management, visualization etc. It also comes with Hadoop support built in.

    14 Luigi alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  6. Metaflow icon
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    Metaflow is a human-friendly Python library that helps scientists and engineers build and manage real-life data science projects. Metaflow was originally developed at Netflix to boost productivity of data scientists who work on a wide variety of projects from classical...

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    • Self-Hosted
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  7. Shipyard’s your go-to cloud-based DataOps platform for secure data extraction, transformation, reverse ETL, workflow orchestration, monitoring, alerting, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  8. CloudReactor icon
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    Easily deploy, schedule, manage and monitor tasks and workflows. Create complex workflows in seconds. Deploy tasks to AWS.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  9. Dagster icon
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    Dagster is a cloud-native data pipeline orchestrator for the whole development lifecycle, with integrated lineage and observability, a declarative programming model, and best-in-class testability.

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    • Online
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  10. Temporal icon
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    What if your code never failed? Failures happen. Temporal makes them irrelevant. Build applications that never lose state, even when everything else fails.

    18 Temporal alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
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  11. Melaya icon
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    Melaya is a visual platform for building, deploying, and governing AI agents that perform real work across software, data, APIs, and mobile applications.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  12. Velda icon
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    Velda is a dev-environment that allows developers to run jobs with cloud compute resource like GPUs without any other extra setup.

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Online
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