# Kestra vs Prismatic (slim)

> Kestra scores 63.6 (B) to Prismatic's 59.1 (C) for workflow automation. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Kestra scores 63.6 (B) on agent readiness against Prismatic's 59.1 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Prismatic leads on security & auth. Both do workflow automation.

- Kestra: B 63.6, rank #387 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/kestra.min.md
- Prismatic: C 59.1, rank #561 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/prismatic.min.md
- Kestra, good for Engineering and data teams that want declarative YAML flows with scripts in any language, run on their own infrastructure. Ahead on Reliability, 89 against 67; Schema & documentation, 82 against 75; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 63; Payments & pricing, 50 against 0; Maintenance & community, 93 against 83. Also Open source.
- Prismatic, good for A B2B software company that wants to build integrations once, deploy them per customer and let an in-app agent call them as MCP tools. Ahead on Security & auth, 59 against 41. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Kestra loses 7 points for them.

| Category | Kestra | Prismatic |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 89 | 67 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 82 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 41 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 0 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 93 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 65 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Kestra | Prismatic |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Kestra Technologies | Prismatic Software Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.prismatic.io/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 (open-source server and SDK repository). Enterprise Edition and Kestra Cloud are commercial | Proprietary service. The Prism CLI, the Spectral and embedded SDKs, the Prism MCP dev server and the Claude Code skills on GitHub are MIT |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.prismatic-io/prism-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-10-06 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2024-06-26 |
| Popularity | 29k stars, 244 npm/wk, 170 PyPI/wk | 29 stars, 8.4k npm/wk |