Astro vs. Apache Airflow
Explore the key differences between Astro and Airflow, along with a comprehensive comparison of their features.
Everything you love about Apache Airflow, and so much more!
Astro augments Airflow with enterprise-grade features to enhance developer productivity, optimize operational efficiency at scale, meet production environment requirements, and more.
10x the performance with Astro,
0 hassles
Astro provides a fully-managed solution that offers all the benefits of Airflow without the headache of managing it.
438%
return on investment in less than 6 months
Speed up time-to-value and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) with an expansive suite of capabilities that boosts developer productivity. With consumption-based pricing, pay only for monthly consumed infrastructure resources.
75%
reduction in infrastructure management
Automate Airflow management and streamline operations with an elastic, scalable, and always-available Airflow-as-a-Service, eliminating operational burdens and enabling your team to focus on the most critical projects.
1500+
validated integrations for limitless extensibility
Achieve seamless interoperability across teams, applications, and environments to provide the end-to-end data management required for your modern data stack.
5 minutes
to get started, Airflow experience not required
Start building data pipelines in less than 5 minutes with developer-friendly tools, intuitive UI, and complete local developer experience.
We no longer spend huge chunks of time fixing outages. Our engineering teams can focus on product engineering, and our analytic engineers and data scientists can focus on getting stakeholders the analytics they need.
Nick Wilson
Senior Manager, Platform Team, Autodesk
Astro allowed us to get more out of Airflow by scaling up our deployments without the need to increase resources spent on managing the infrastructure. We’ve seen a more stable usage of the infrastructure across all times. This helped us achieve better results, not just in meeting our internal SLAs, but also having more consistency around stakeholders’ expectations.
Damian Grech
Director of Engineering, FanDuel
Using Astro's Apache Airflow offering on Azure has modernized our data operations. Their best-in-class SLAs, multi-environment deployments, and intuitive dashboards have streamlined our processes, ensuring we can manage our critical pipelines.
Kevin Schmidt
Sr Manager, Data Engineering, Molson Coors Beverage Company
Customers who transitioned to Astronomer for Enterprise-Grade Airflow
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