3 categories · RankedKestra
Kestra is an open-source declarative orchestration platform for data, AI, and infrastructure workflows, with workflows defined in YAML · kestra.io ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Make is first at 33%.
Prefect is first at 25%.
Apache Airflow is first at 29%.
Why models recommend it
“For teams that want simple YAML-based workflows and minimal setup, Kestra is a good option.”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · alternative
“Choose Kestra for a broad, declarative platform spanning data, infrastructure, and AI.”Perplexity Sonar · Comparative question · alternative
“Kestra provides an event-driven, micro-orchestrator experience using simple YAML files”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · alternative
“Airflow and Kestra are top open-source choices to coordinate your pipelines”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Many current open core tools like Kestra and Dagster keep essential enterprise features – especially security features like SSO – locked behind their enterprise versions.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Emerging/niche tools (e.g., Kestra, Temporal): Generally positive, but watch for immaturity”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Kestra, over the 45 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 41 | 13 | View → | |
| 38 | 6 | View → | |
| 34 | 8 | View → | |
| 30 | 1 | View → | |
| 17 | 0 | View → | |
| 15 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 2 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Kestra →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Kestra's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- data engineers, software engineers, platform engineers
- Price stated
- Open Source: Free Forever; Cloud: Pay only for what you use; Enterprise Edition: Annual subscription — contact sales
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Free Forever
- Integrations
- 2000
- Certifications
- SOC 2, GDPR
- Customers named
- JPMorgan Chase, Foundation Direct, Crédit Agricole, Fila, Leroy Merlin France, Riverside, Víssimo Group, Amdocs
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 41 of the 45 answers that named Kestra and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
109 of the 140 domain citations in answers naming Kestra came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 428 | 105 | 2026-09-29 | Orchestration, ETL | |
| Comparison | 149 | 42 | 2026-09-22 | ETL | |
| Case study | 30 | 0 | 2024-10-22 | ||
| Report or ebook | 18 | 1 | 2026-09-22 | ||
| Template or tool | 18 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 14 | 6 | 2026-09-22 | IaC | |
| Podcast or video | 7 | undated | |||
| News or press | 3 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 2 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Agent observability blog
- 2026-09-25Kestra academy launch blog
- 2026-09-25Dbt orchestration blog
- 2026-09-25Infrastructure orchestration blog
- 2026-09-25Sap data integration tool blog
- 2026-09-22What is a frontier engineer glossary or explainer
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page kestra.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.