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Kestra

Orchestration for data, AI, and infrastructure workflows as declarative YAML.

Category
Orchestration
Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Open core
Hosting
Hybrid
Platforms
WebAPICLI
Models
Model-agnostic
Verified
Jun 13, 2026

Kestra is an open-source orchestration platform for building data, AI, and infrastructure pipelines as declarative YAML workflows. It is event-driven and language-agnostic, running Python, Bash, Node, Go, or containers across 1,500+ plugins, with a web UI for monitoring plus governance features like RBAC and audit logs. It ships as free self-hosted open source alongside paid Cloud and Enterprise editions.

Capabilities 2

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Workflow orchestration (primary capability)
  • ETL / data pipeline (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Declarative YAML, low-code workflows
  • Event-driven plus scheduled execution
  • Language-agnostic with a broad plugin set
  • Self-hostable, Apache-2.0 licensed
  • Scales to enterprise (RBAC, audit logs)
  • YAML can get verbose at scale
  • Younger ecosystem than Airflow
  • Advanced features gated to paid tiers
  • Cloud pricing not fully public

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