Prefect Customer Managed
Self-managed workflow orchestration for FedRAMP, HIPAA, and PCI environments
Run Prefect in your own environment
Get the orchestration engine that powers Prefect Cloud without sending any data outside your network. Deploy in your VPC, behind your firewall, or in air-gapped environments while keeping all the enterprise features.
If you need to meet FedRAMP, HIPAA, or PCI requirements, or if your data just can't leave your network, this self-managed version is what you want.
What you are actually getting
Workflows that recover automatically
When things break, Prefect doesn't just log an error and stop. It retries, caches results, and resumes from the last successful step so you can fix the actual problem instead of restarting from scratch.
Configure backoff policies so transient failures don't kill your workflows
Workflows pick up from the last successful step instead of starting over
Optimize your compute resources and deliver on your business goals. Our customers are saving up to 73% in costs by switching to Prefect.
Scales with your workload
Prefect distributes work across whatever infrastructure you're running and adjusts as demand changes. You get the same performance whether you're running ten flows or ten thousand.
Deploy on Kubernetes, ECS, VMs, or bare metal without changing how Prefect works
Automatically adjusts to demand without capacity planning or manual tuning
Built-in monitoring shows you where bottlenecks form before they cause problems
Built for compliance and security
Everything runs in your environment with the audit trails and access controls you need for FedRAMP, HIPAA, or PCI compliance reviews. Your data never crosses your network boundary.
Code and data stay in your environment with private network connectivity
Integrate with Okta, Azure AD, or ADFS for centralized access control
Export complete event history to your SIEM for compliance reporting
Predictable pricing
We charge by developer seat instead of metering API calls or task executions. Your costs stay flat as your workflows and automation grow.
Pay for developers on your team, not the workflows they build or tasks they run
Run unlimited workflows and executions without hitting caps or overage charges
Same licensing framework whether you use Cloud, Enterprise, or Customer Managed
Prefect, on your terms
Feature Comparison Matrix
| Feature | Open Source | Prefect Cloud (Self-Service) | Prefect Cloud (Enterprise) | Customer Managed Prefect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Your infrastructure | Prefect's SaaS | Prefect's SaaS | Your infrastructure (on-prem or private cloud) |
| Setup | Manual | Sign up and go | Onboarding included | Full deployment support |
| Orchestration | Core features | Fully managed | Fully managed with SLAs | Same engine, self-managed in your environment |
| Scaling | You handle it | Automatic | Automatic | Automatic in your infrastructure |
| Authentication | None | Email/password | SSO (Okta, Azure AD, ADFS) | SSO (Okta, Azure AD, ADFS) |
| RBAC | None | None | Yes | Yes |
| Audit logs | None | None | Yes, with SIEM export | Yes, with SIEM export |
| Data location | Your environment | Your environment* | Your environment* | Fully private |
| Private networking | N/A | Public internet | PrivateLink or VPC peering | Fully private |
| High availability | You configure it | Included | Included | You configure it |
| Support | Community | Community and email | Dedicated support with SLAs | Dedicated support with SLAs |
| Pricing | Free (Apache 2.0) | Monthly per seat | Annual per seat | Annual per seat |
| Best for | Individual developers | Small teams evaluating Prefect | Teams scaling across the org | Regulated or air-gapped environments |