hello everyone! Could someone tell me what features Open Source does not have in relation to Prefect Cloud and if it has any performance loss? I tried to find this information on the website but I got a little confused

Hi @Matheus Cruz Prefect Server is our open source, lightweight version of Prefect Cloud. This section of the docs offers a breakdown of Cloud vs. Server https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/server/overview.html#prefect-server-vs-prefect-cloud-which-should-i-choose and this section touches on performance https://docs.prefect.io/orchestration/server/overview.html#prefect-server-vs-prefect-cloud-which-should-i-choose. Prefect Core, our open source Python library, is used with both Prefect Server and Prefect Cloud. If you're thinking of going with Prefect Server, I would still recommend trying Prefect Cloud first. Cloud has a very generous free tier - you pay nothing unless you use over 10,000 task runs per month. And using Cloud will save you the trouble of setting up Prefect Server on your infrastructure, which you can always do later.

Hi @Zach Angell, Thanks for the links! We're already using the prefect cloud to test some things, but just one flow of ours hits the 10000 tasks run, so we're thinking to use the open source because of this. One doubt, how long it takes for a new feature to be deployed in open source after be released in Prefect Cloud? The Automations feature is already in open source?

Np! Not all Cloud features will end up in Server. There is no plan, for example, to support Automations in Server. Prefect Cloud has additional services and strong performance guarantees that are out of scope for Server. A classic example is authorization. Because Server is running on your infrastructure, we don't think it makes sense for Server to be opinionated about users and authorization. I'd also caution against moving to Server with that amount of task runs, it's likely you will see some performance issues that will be tricky to manage.