Prefect's open source sponsorship: 2026 update
Blog post from Prefect
Prefect reported contributing $40,000 in 2026 to 12 open-source maintainers, project teams, and collectives, increasing its $30,000 contribution from 2025 and meeting the Open Source Pledge benchmark of $2,000 per full-time engineer. The company assessed dependencies shared across Prefect, Dagster, and FastMCP, grouping related packages to support the maintainers responsible for multiple tools rather than funding each package separately. Recipients included maintainers and organizations behind Starlette, Uvicorn, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, Jinja, Click, pytest, structlog, GraphQL-core, watchdog, jsonschema, Cyclopts, websockets, PyO3, and Python development utilities such as filelock and virtualenv. Prefect emphasized that these projects provide core capabilities including APIs, database migrations, testing, logging, command-line interfaces, WebSocket communication, and Rust-Python integration, and encouraged other companies to identify and support the open-source maintainers their products rely on.
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