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Best Open Source Orchestration & Scheduling Tools

Ranked by GitHub stars — actual adoption, not editorial taste. All 10 are free, open source and self-hostable; license and last activity on every entry.

  1. 1
    compose ★ 38K

    Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

    Apache-2.0 Go pushed 2026-09-17 details →
  2. 2
    conductor ★ 32K

    Conductor is an event driven agentic workflow engine providing durable and highly resilient execution engine for applications and AI Agents

    Apache-2.0 Java pushed 2026-09-17 details →
  3. 3
    xxl-job ★ 31K

    A distributed task scheduling framework.（分布式任务调度平台XXL-JOB）

    GPL-3.0 Java pushed 2026-07-21 details →
  4. 4
    gitleaks ★ 29K

    Find secrets with Gitleaks 🔑

    MIT Go pushed 2026-09-09 details →
  5. 5
    Kestra ★ 28K

    Declarative workflow orchestration for data, AI, and infra

    Apache-2.0 Java pushed 2026-09-17 details →
  6. 6
    haystack ★ 27K

    Open-source AI orchestration framework for building context-engineered, production-ready LLM applications. Design modular pipelines and agent workflows with exp

    Apache-2.0 Python pushed 2026-09-17 details →
  7. 7
    rancher ★ 26K

    Complete container management platform

    Apache-2.0 Go pushed 2026-09-17 details →
  8. 8
    Prefect ★ 24K

    Python-native workflow orchestration for data and ML teams

    Apache-2.0 Python pushed 2026-09-17 details →
  9. 9
    Archon ★ 23K

    The first open-source harness builder for AI coding. Make AI coding deterministic and repeatable.

    MIT TypeScript pushed 2026-09-17 details →
  10. 10
    Temporal ★ 23K

    Build resilient applications with durable execution workflows

    MIT Go pushed 2026-09-17 details →
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last updated nightly · ranking method: github stars, live-tracked

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Frequently asked questions

What is the best open source Orchestration & Scheduling tool in 2026?

compose leads the ranking with 38,175 GitHub stars, ahead of conductor. Rankings use live GitHub star counts, refreshed nightly.

How is this list of Orchestration & Scheduling tools ranked?

By GitHub stars — a proxy for adoption and community size. Each entry also shows its licence, primary language and last commit date, so you can judge maintenance activity rather than trusting the ranking alone.

Are the best Orchestration & Scheduling tools free?

Every project on this list is open source and free to self-host. Some also offer paid managed hosting, but the software itself carries no licence fee.