Skip to content
SPECIFICTION
Get listed

Google Cloud Composer vs Kestra

Google Cloud Composer

cloud.google.com

Kestra

kestra.io

Side by side

FigureGoogle Cloud ComposerKestra
Price from—Free
Free plan—Yes
Free trial—Yes
Open source—Yes
Web—Yes
Windows—Yes
macOS—Yes
Linux—Yes
API—Yes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published04
Spec score · Data Orchestration Software5.4 (#15)8.4 (#5)

Plans

Google Cloud Composer

No plans published.

Google Cloud Composer pricing →

Kestra

  • Open SourceFree
  • Enterprise EditionPriced on request
  • Kestra CloudPriced on request
  • Kestra CloudPriced on request

Kestra pricing →

In their own words

Google Cloud Composer

Google Cloud Composer has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.

Visit cloud.google.com

Kestra

Kestra is a declarative orchestration platform for building, running, and governing workflows across an organization. Workflows, called flows, are defined in YAML and can combine tasks, dependencies, conditions, triggers, and runtime parameters. Execution controls include retries, failure policies, timeouts, concurrency limits, worker assignment, and log capture. Kestra advertises more than 2,000 plugins for connecting to external tools, with examples including Airbyte, AWS, Azure, BigQuery, dbt, Docker, GitHub, Kafka, Kubernetes, Slack, Snowflake, and Terraform. A flow can orchestrate SQL, Python, shell, APIs, Terraform, dbt, Spark, and custom tools. The platform includes an MCP server for AI agents and supports exposing flows as callable tools. Teams can self-host with Docker or Kubernetes; Enterprise Edition also supports cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments. Setup instructions cover macOS, Windows, and Linux, alongside web and API platforms. Kestra Cloud advertises up to two months free during team setup. The Open Source and Enterprise Edition plans have no price listed.

Visit kestra.io