# Bardeen vs Kestra

| Attribute | Bardeen | Kestra |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 59.6 (52% (medium)) | 59 (54% (medium)) |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Bardeen is an automation platform that uses AI to streamline workflows, including tasks like downloading and managing signatures from DocuSign and extracting data from websites through web scraping. It is indexed under AI Workflow Automation.","source":"https://www.bardeen.ai","question":"What is Bardeen?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Bardeen offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Free, Professional, Business and Enterprise. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://www.bardeen.ai/posts/bardeen-pricing-2-0","question":"Is Bardeen free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Bardeen. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.bardeen.ai/posts/bardeen-pricing-2-0","question":"What platforms does Bardeen support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Not fully, on what we have confirmed. Bardeen is offered as cloud / SaaS and hybrid, and a hybrid deployment usually means some components can run on your own infrastructure while the rest stays vendor-hosted. We have not confirmed a completely self-hosted option, so check with the vendor if that is a requirement.","source":"https://www.bardeen.ai/posts/bardeen-pricing-2-0","question":"Can Bardeen be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 13 integrations for Bardeen, including Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Hubspot, Salesloft and Pipedrive, plus 5 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://www.bardeen.ai","question":"What does Bardeen integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Bardeen. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Bardeen not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://www.bardeen.ai/websites/trustradius","question":"What security certifications does Bardeen have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Bardeen is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://www.bardeen.ai/posts/bardeen-pricing-2-0","question":"Where is Bardeen available?","confidence":0.5}]` | `[{"answer":"An open-source platform designed for orchestrating complex, long-running workflows across data pipelines, AI systems, and infrastructure operations. Supports multiple languages and deployment models (cloud, self-hosted, air-gapped), with built-in reliability features like retries, backfills, and comprehensive observability. It is indexed under Data Engineering Tools.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"What is Kestra?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Kestra offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Open Source, Kestra Cloud and Kestra Enterprise. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"Is Kestra free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Kestra supports the web, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"What platforms does Kestra support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Kestra can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise, air-gapped and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"Can Kestra be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 40 integrations for Kestra, including Ansible, dbt, Spark, Airbyte, Dremio, Arrow Flight SQL, Git and Kubernetes, plus 32 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"What does Kestra integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Kestra. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Kestra not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://kestra.io/docs/configuration/security-and-secrets","question":"What security certifications does Kestra have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Kestra is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://kestra.io/pricing","question":"Where is Kestra available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Bardeen is an automation platform that uses AI to streamline workflows, including tasks like downloading and managing signatures from DocuSign and extracting data from websites through web scraping. | A language-agnostic platform that lets teams define and run business-critical workflows declaratively as code, with built-in scheduling, event-driven triggers, retries, failure handling, and full observability across cloud, on-premise, and air-gapped deployments. |
| features.capabilities | `{"soc2_type_ii":true,"pricing_model":"freemium_with_task_credits","builder_ui_architecture":"browser_extension","native_llm_nodes_anthropic_openai_gemini":true,"web_scraping_and_browser_automation_nodes":true,"sub_workflow_calling_and_reusable_templates":true,"dynamic_conditional_routing_via_llm_classification":true,"unstructured_document_extraction_pdf_image_to_json":true}` | `{"cdc":false,"role":"orchestrator","lineage":true,"paradigm":"both","iso_27001":false,"dbt_native":true,"data_quality":true,"elt_pushdown":true,"python_first":true,"soc2_type_ii":true,"managed_cloud":true,"connector_count":"1900+","self_hosted_oss":true,"incremental_runs":true,"distributed_executor":true,"builder_ui_architecture":"visual_node_canvas","custom_http_webhook_catch_and_triggering":true,"native_llm_nodes_anthropic_openai_gemini":true,"on_premise_self_hosted_deployment_option":true,"bring_your_own_key_byok_for_llm_inference":true,"web_scraping_and_browser_automation_nodes":false,"sub_workflow_calling_and_reusable_templates":true,"human_in_the_loop_approval_steps_via_slack_email":true,"dynamic_conditional_routing_via_llm_classification":true,"unstructured_document_extraction_pdf_image_to_json":true}` |
| integrations.count | 1 | 2,000 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Google Sheets"},{"name":"Airtable"},{"name":"Notion"},{"name":"Microsoft 365"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"Hubspot"},{"name":"Salesloft"},{"name":"Pipedrive"},{"name":"Facebook"},{"name":"DocuSign"},{"name":"Outlook"},{"name":"Microsoft Word"},{"name":"Any webpage via browser"}]` | `[{"name":"Ansible"},{"name":"dbt"},{"name":"Spark"},{"name":"Airbyte"},{"name":"Dremio"},{"name":"Arrow Flight SQL"},{"name":"Git"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"GitHub Actions"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Terraform"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Azure Data Lake Storage"},{"name":"Postgres"},{"name":"JDBC databases"},{"name":"HTTP APIs"},{"name":"Polars"},{"name":"Python"},{"name":"Bash"},{"name":"Node.js"},{"name":"Go"},{"name":"Apache Kafka"},{"name":"Apache Spark"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Google Gemini"},{"name":"Perplexity"},{"name":"Google Analytics"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"Facebook Ads"},{"name":"RabbitMQ"},{"name":"Yahoo Finance"},{"name":"AWS Secrets Manager"},{"name":"HashiCorp Vault"},{"name":"Google Cloud"},{"name":"Google BigQuery"},{"name":"R"},{"name":"Java"},{"name":"Julia"},{"name":"Ruby"},{"name":"Shell"},{"name":"AWS","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud Platform","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure","native":true,"category":"cloud","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Dataform","native":true,"category":"data_transformation","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Apache Tika","native":false,"category":"document_processing","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Gemini","native":true,"category":"ai_llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Azure Key Vault","native":true,"category":"secrets_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Google Secret Manager","native":true,"category":"secrets_management","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Kafka","native":true,"category":"streaming","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Elasticsearch","native":true},{"name":"Datadog","native":true},{"name":"Splunk","native":true},{"name":"MySQL","native":true}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","description":"For individuals beginning their automation journey","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Professional","description":"For individuals and small teams prioritizing productivity","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Business","description":"For teams requiring advanced collaboration, enhanced security, and scalability","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","description":"Enterprise-level tools with dedicated support and solutions engineering","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Freemium subscription with unlimited team seats. Credit-based usage: each action costs one credit. Specific pricing not detailed.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.bardeen.ai/posts/bardeen-pricing-2-0","retrievedAt":"2026-08-25T21:38:14.756Z","billingPeriods":["month","year"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Open Source","summary":"Free, self-hosted","description":"Self-hosted open-source version","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Kestra Cloud","summary":"Managed cloud with enterprise support","features":["Fully Managed Platform (Hosting, Upgrades, Monitoring)","Built-in Security and Governance Features","Customer Success Program & Enterprise Support with SLA","Audit Logs"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Fully managed cloud platform","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Kestra Enterprise","summary":"Enterprise self-hosted with advanced governance","features":["Run anywhere Cloud, On-Prem, Air-Gapped","RBAC, audit logs, secrets management, asset lineage","AI Copilot (Any LLM Cloud or Self-Hosted)","Human-in-the-Loop Approvals"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Self-hosted enterprise edition","contactSales":true}],"currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://kestra.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-06T16:17:51.489Z","billingPeriods":["year"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | no |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC 2","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | - | https://kestra.io/docs/configuration/security-and-secrets |

## Capabilities (AI Workflow Automation)

| Capability | Bardeen | Kestra |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Builder UI architecture | Browser extension | Visual node canvas |
| Native LLM nodes anthropic openai gemini | ✓ | ✓ |
| Human in the loop approval steps via slack email | - | ✓ |
| Unstructured document extraction PDF image to json | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dynamic conditional routing via LLM classification | ✓ | ✓ |
| Web scraping and browser automation nodes | ✓ | ✗ |
| Bring your own key byok for LLM inference | - | ✓ |
| Custom HTTP webhook catch and triggering | - | ✓ |
| Sub workflow calling and reusable templates | ✓ | ✓ |
| On premise self hosted deployment option | - | ✓ |
| SOC2 type ii | ✓ | ✓ |
| ISO 27001 | - | ✗ |
| Pricing model | Freemium with task credits | - |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:19:05.894Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*