[computershit]

Prefect has more polish and is easier to get started than any of the existing options. We've been running their self-hosted for over three years and it basically stays out of the way.

We looked at Dagster as well as Airflow. I really, really liked Dagster but the BI team didn't.

I cannot imagine using Airflow for anything meaningful and respecting myself at the end of a work day. The local development experience was abysmal. Deployments sucked.

That being said, if you're not using anything except maybe cron right now, and if you don't care about the solution being a proper data pipelines orchestration platform trademark symbol, I'd recommend starting with Windmill.