Astronomer vs Flyte
Astronomer
astronomer.ioFlyte
flyte.orgSide by side
| Figure | Astronomer | Flyte |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.35/mo | $950/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 5 |
| Spec score · Data Orchestration Software | 6.5 (#9) | 8.9 (#3) |
Plans
Astronomer
- Developer$0.35 a month
- Team$0.42 a month
- BusinessPriced on request
- EnterprisePriced on request
- Enterprise Business CriticalPriced on request
- Astro Private CloudPriced on request
Flyte
- Flyte OSSFree
- Flyte OSSFree
- Team$950 a month
- Union.ai Team (enterprise Flyte platform)$950 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Astronomer
Astronomer has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Flyte
Flyte 2 is a durable runtime for AI workloads involving training, serving and agents. Users write workflows as plain Python async functions and use a TaskEnvironment to declare images, resources, secrets and retry policies. Flyte resumes from failed tasks and can recover from out-of-memory kills, preempted nodes and disappearing GPUs. Branches, loops and runtime decisions support dynamic workflows and agents. Native serving integrations include Streamlit, FastAPI, vLLM, SGLang and Ollama, with replicas able to scale to zero when idle. Listed integrations also cover Apache Spark, Ray, PyTorch Elastic, BigQuery, Snowflake, Weights & Biases, OpenAI Agents SDK, LangGraph, CrewAI, Pydantic AI, MLflow, Dask and Databricks. It runs locally with a devbox or on a customer cluster. Union.ai says customer-cloud data planes keep workflow inputs, outputs, logs, code and reports outside its control plane. Flyte is available as free Apache 2.0 open-source software.