Open Source Alternatives
Open source alternatives to Kubeflow
Open source alternatives to Kubeflow, ranked by GitHub stars and freshness.
16 open-source alternatives in the index, ranked by GitHub stars and freshness.
Prefect
Community
Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python.
Alternative to Argo Workflows, Kubeflow
Best for: Python teams building production data pipelines who need observability and fault tolerance without heavyweight infrastructure
Metaflow
Community
Build, Manage and Deploy AI/ML Systems
Alternative to Prefect, Argo Workflows, Kubeflow +1 more
Best for: Data scientists and ML engineers building reproducible, scalable machine learning pipelines
Flyte
Community
Dynamic, resilient AI orchestration. Coordinate data, models, and compute as you build AI workflows.
Alternative to Prefect, Argo Workflows, Kubeflow
Best for: Teams building and scaling production ML pipelines on Kubernetes
ClearML
Community
ClearML - Auto-Magical CI/CD to streamline your AI workload. Experiment Management, Data Management, Pipeline, Orchestration, Scheduling & Serving in one MLOps/LLMOps solution
Alternative to Kubeflow
Best for: Teams building and deploying machine learning models at scale who need a unified MLOps solution
Seldon-core
Community
An MLOps framework to package, deploy, monitor and manage thousands of production machine learning models
Alternative to Kubeflow
Best for: Teams deploying and monitoring many machine learning models in production on Kubernetes
Polyaxon
Community
Open Source AI Infra & Engineering Control Plane
Alternative to Kubeflow, Argo Workflows
Best for: Engineering teams who need a self-hosted, customizable control plane for end-to-end ML orchestration and observability
Determined
Community
Determined is an open-source machine learning platform that simplifies distributed training, hyperparameter tuning, experiment tracking, and resource management. Works with PyTorch
Alternative to Kubeflow
Best for: Teams needing a streamlined open-source platform for distributed training and experiment management
PAI
Community
Resource scheduling and cluster management for AI
Alternative to Kubeflow, Argo Workflows
Best for: Teams needing an open-source scheduler for managing GPU clusters used in AI training and experimentation
Hamilton
Community
Apache Hamilton helps data scientists and engineers define testable, modular, self-documenting dataflows, that encode lineage/tracing and metadata. Runs and scales everywhere pytho
Alternative to Prefect, Dvc, Argo Workflows +1 more
Best for: Data scientists and engineers who need testable, documented dataflows with automatic lineage tracking.
VDP
Community
🔮 Instill Core is a full-stack AI infrastructure tool for data, model and pipeline orchestration, designed to streamline every aspect of building versatile AI-first applications
Alternative to Kubeflow, Argo Workflows, Prefect
Best for: Developers who need an integrated open-source platform for end-to-end AI pipeline orchestration
MLRun
Community
MLRun is an open source MLOps platform for quickly building and managing continuous ML applications across their lifecycle. MLRun integrates into your development and CI/CD environ
Alternative to Kubeflow
Best for: Teams building continuous ML applications who want an open source MLOps platform to automate lifecycle management
Hopsworks
Community
Hopsworks - Data-Intensive AI platform with a Feature Store
Alternative to Kubeflow
Best for: Teams building production ML systems that need a shared feature store with monitoring and governance
aqueduct
Community
Aqueduct is no longer being maintained. Aqueduct allows you to run LLM and ML workloads on any cloud infrastructure.
Alternative to Kubeflow, Prefect, Argo Workflows
Best for: Teams that need a simple multi-cloud executor for ML/LLM workloads and accept using an unmaintained tool
Primehub
Community
open-source MLOps platform
Alternative to Kubeflow, Argo Workflows
Best for: Teams seeking a lightweight, open-source observability tool for MLOps
Starwhale
Community
an MLOps/LLMOps platform
Alternative to Kubeflow
Best for: Teams seeking an open source MLOps platform that can handle both traditional ML and LLM workflows
Airflow
Community
Platform created by the community to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows.
Alternative to Prefect, Argo Workflows, Kubeflow +1 more
Best for: Teams that need a robust, code-driven scheduler for batch-oriented data pipelines