Today, we're excited to announce Prefect Serverless – our fully managed compute platform that delivers infrastructure-free workflow execution in Prefect Cloud.
When we launched Prefect 3.0 ten months ago, adoption of our open-source project soared from 300K to 1.8M downloads per week – a nearly 500% increase. This growth validated our vision for flexible workflow orchestration and revealed a clear need to serve teams at different stages of their infrastructure journey.
Prefect Cloud pioneered the hybrid execution model, separating the control plane from user-run compute. This remains the cornerstone of our platform and our most important security feature for enterprise teams requiring complete control over their data and compute resources.
But for some teams, spinning up Kubernetes or ECS clusters, configuring IAM roles, or managing networking rules creates unnecessary friction. They just need workflows to run—reliably and quickly.
Prefect Serverless provides a fully managed compute environment. You write workflows; we scale them up when needed and down to zero when idle. There's no container setup, cluster management, or infrastructure overhead.
Data teams come in all shapes and sizes. Some have dedicated platform engineers building robust infrastructure, while others are focused primarily on delivering insights and models. Prefect has always given leverage to platform teams through our hybrid model, and now with Prefect Serverless we're extending capabilities to teams that need to move quickly without building platform capabilities in-house.
With Prefect Serverless, you can:
All Prefect Cloud plans include Serverless execution credits, consumed only during actual runtime.
You can choose either model or both, depending on your needs.
Serverless execution is now available for all Prefect Cloud users. To try it:
As more teams choose Prefect Cloud for workflow orchestration, we're committed to providing flexible options that meet a broad range of needs. Whether you're leveraging Prefect to enhance your existing platform capabilities or looking to eliminate infrastructure management entirely, Prefect Cloud now provides the solution.
Prefect Serverless represents our commitment to meeting teams wherever they are in their cloud journey. We believe workflow orchestration should be about reliable automation and visibility, with the freedom to choose the infrastructure approach that works best for your organization.
We can't wait to see what you build. Check out our docs for details, or get started in just a few clicks.
