Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Kestra?
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.
Kestra pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Open Source
FreeSelf-hosted open-source version
Kestra Cloud
Fully managed cloud platform
- Fully Managed Platform (Hosting, Upgrades, Monitoring)
- Built-in Security and Governance Features
- Customer Success Program & Enterprise Support with SLA
- Audit Logs
Kestra Enterprise
Contact salesSelf-hosted enterprise edition
- 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
What Kestra does
The capabilities that matter for data engineering tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Tool role
- Orchestrator
- Processing paradigm
- Batch + streaming
- Connector count
- 1900+
- CDC / log-based replication
- ✗
- In-warehouse transformation (push-down)
- ✓
- dbt-native orchestration
- ✓
- Self-hosted / open-source available
- ✓
- Managed cloud available
- ✓
- Data lineage / asset catalog
- ✓
- Python-first authoring
- ✓
- Incremental / partition-aware runs
- ✓
- Built-in data quality / tests
- ✓
- Horizontal scale (distributed executor)
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Linux
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Air-gapped
- Self-hosted
Integrations (54)
Independently observed- AWS⇄•
- Google Cloud Platform⇄•
- Azure⇄•
- Dataform⇄•
- Apache Tika→
- Gemini→•
- Azure Key Vault←•
- Google Secret Manager←•
- Kafka⇄•
- Ansible
- dbt
- Spark
- Airbyte
- Dremio
- Arrow Flight SQL
- Git
- GitHub
- GitHub Actions
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Terraform
- Slack
- S3
- Azure Data Lake Storage
- Postgres
- JDBC databases
- HTTP APIs
- Polars
- Python
- Bash
- Node.js
- Go
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Spark
- PagerDuty
- PostgreSQL
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- Google Gemini
- Perplexity
- Google Analytics
- Salesforce
- Facebook Ads
- RabbitMQ
- Yahoo Finance
- AWS Secrets Manager
- HashiCorp Vault
- Google Cloud
- Google BigQuery
- R
- Java
- Julia
- Ruby
- Shell
Security & compliance
Independently observed- SOC 2active
Kestra FAQ
Common questions about Kestra, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Kestra?
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
Is Kestra free?
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
What platforms does Kestra support?
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
Can Kestra be self-hosted?
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
What does Kestra integrate with?
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
What security certifications does Kestra have?
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
Where is Kestra available?
Kestra is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.
Source: https://kestra.io/pricing
Kestra alternatives
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| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 100 | 0.05 | 4.9 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 94 | 0.04 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 45 | 0.07 | 3.3 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.08 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 7 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Cdc: No · Role: orchestrator · Lineage: Yes · Paradigm: both · Iso 27001: No · Dbt native: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-06 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 1,900 | mediumsource · 2026-09-06 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | mediumsource · 2026-09-06 · 50% |
Pricing
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