@Marvin is prefect OSS completely free to use? for example, i host my own server, workers etc and it's completely free regardless of workloads, amount of workers, servers, deployments, flows, tasks etc
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Marvin
07/04/2025, 11:25 AM
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Marvin
07/04/2025, 11:25 AM
Yes, Prefect OSS is completely free to use with no artificial limitations imposed on:
- Number of workers
- Number of servers
- Number of deployments
- Number of flows or tasks
- Workload volume
Since you're already using a self-hosted server and workers via Helm charts, you're experiencing this firsthand. You can scale your infrastructure as much as needed without incurring any license fees or hitting any software-imposed caps.
The only "costs" associated with Prefect OSS are the ones you're already handling:
- Infrastructure costs (your own servers/kubernetes clusters)
- Maintenance overhead (managing your own deployments)
- Engineering time for infrastructure management
This is in contrast to Prefect Cloud, which handles the infrastructure management for you but requires a subscription. But for the OSS version, you're free to use it at whatever scale you need - the only limits are the ones imposed by your own infrastructure.
Worth noting that I see you're using Helm charts for deployment - that's a solid approach for managing the self-hosted components, as it gives you good control over your infrastructure scaling while keeping the management overhead reasonable.