G2 Vendor Directory

kestra vs. Tidal Automation

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

Metrickestra

by Kestra Technologies

Tidal Automation

by Redwood Software

Overall rating4.64.6
Review count2473
Ease of use9.79.4
Ease of setup9.68.2
Quality of support9.89.5
Meets requirements9.49.5
NPS7576.470588
Small Business85.7%6.2%
Mid-Market9.5%29.2%
Enterprise4.8%64.6%
Total page views633546
Total LLM citations6981,384

kestra

Kestra is an open-source workflow orchestration and automation platform that enables organizations to define, schedule, and monitor both event-driven and time-based workflows. It brings Infrastructure-as-Code principles to orchestration, allowing teams to manage processes through YAML definitions or an intuitive user interface. Kestra is designed for data engineers, developers, and DevOps teams who need to automate data pipelines, integrate distributed systems, or coordinate multi-step workflows across hybrid or cloud environments.

Pros

  • Workflow Management
  • Reliability
  • Easy Integrations
  • Features
  • Customer Support
  • Data Security

Tidal Automation

Tidal Software, part of Redwood Software, provides enterprise workload automation solutions that orchestrate the execution of complex workflows across systems, applications and IT environments. Redwood Software, a 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SOAP Leader, is the leading orchestration platform for the autonomous enterprise. We empower customers to drive business transformation at the lowest TCO, intelligently automating critical business and IT processes across complex ERP, hybrid cloud, data management and agentic AI systems.

Pros

  • User Interface
  • Ease of Use
  • Automation
  • Job Scheduling
  • Workload Automation
  • Scheduling