3 categories · RankedPrefect
Prefect is a workflow orchestration product for data, ML, and agent workloads · prefect.io ↗
Strongest at mid-market, contested with Dagster. Ranked 4 of 97 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Make is first at 33%.
Ranked first, contested: Dagster has 15%. 4 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Apache Airflow is first at 29%.
Why models recommend it
“Prefect if you want the easiest learning curve and don't have dedicated platform engineers - the free tier is genuinely usable for small teams”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“The recommended data pipeline orchestrator for a mid-sized B2B company is Prefect, as it is the most popular choice among the top results.”Llama 4 Maverick · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Prefect if you want a simpler developer experience and can keep costs low with a small deployment”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Dagster Cloud or Prefect Cloud are the top recommendations over traditional Apache Airflow.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Prefect's concurrency controls are less granular than Airflow's pool system”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Prefect, over the 175 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 163 | 39 | Compare → | |
| 137 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 92 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 60 | 7 | Compare → | |
| 60 | 3 | View → | |
| 56 | 11 | Compare → | |
| 55 | 9 | Compare → | |
| 51 | 0 | View → | |
| 39 | 0 | View → | |
| 36 | 3 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Prefect →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Prefect's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- data, ML, and agents
- Price stated
- 0
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Start free
- Certifications
- SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR
- Hosting
- Kubernetes, ECS, your own VPC, serverless, GCP us-east1, AWS us-east-1
- Customers named
- Ramp, WHOOP, Barstool Sports, Cash App, Seven.One Entertainment, Snorkel AI, Flatiron Health, Clearcover
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 140 of the 175 answers that named Prefect and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
274 of the 325 domain citations in answers naming Prefect came from a third party's page. Twenty-two were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| Mistral Small | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 161 | 5 | 2026-09-09 | ||
| Conference or event | 19 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 8 | 1 | 2026-07-22 | ||
| Case study | 6 | 0 | 2026-04-23 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 3 | 0 | 2026-06-10 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-09Is your mcp server actually good blog
- 2026-08-31Fastmcp 4 is ga blog
- 2026-08-20Mcp auth explained blog
- 2026-07-22Loops vs graphs comparison
- 2026-07-21What the c in mcp means blog
- 2026-07-09How i run my sales week through ai agents instead of apps blog
Events in person
- September 15, 2026 to September 18, 2026dbt Summit 2026Las Vegas · sponsored
- September 15, 2026The Welcome Party after partyAlexxa's at Paris, Las Vegas, Las Vegas · hosted
- April 2, 2026 to April 3, 2026MCP Dev Summit North AmericaNew York, United States · sponsored
- March 10, 2026PyAI Conference 2026Shack15, Ferry Building, San Francisco · hosted
As the event pages on prefect.io state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page prefect.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.