Prefect boosts API rate limits 2.5x across all pricing tiers
What happened
Between the Mar 2, 2026 and Mar 9, 2026 captures of Prefect's pricing page, Pulse recorded one change: API rate limits increased 2.5x across all plans: Hobby 250→625/min, Starter 500→1,250/min, Team 1,000→2,500/min, Pro 2,000→5,000/min. Pulse files it as a packaging change (limit increase) with an upward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Oct 5, 2026) lists Starter at $100 and Team at $100.
This is the first pricing-page change Pulse has recorded for Prefect. Prefect has been tracked since 2026-03-02.
In the same window Temporal and Dagster Labs also changed their Data & Analytics pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Hobby, Starter, Team · Limit+150%250625/min
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby, Starter, Team | Limit | 250 | 625/min | +150% |
Values as written on Prefect's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Prefect's pricing page (www.prefect.io) from Mar 2, 2026 and Mar 9, 2026; the change is marked near the top of the page, where hobby, starter, team limit reads 250 and then 625/min.
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Prefect, pricing history
Full history- Aug 17, 2026improvedPrefect drops the Pro tier and raises the Enterprise uptime SLA to 99.99%
- Jul 4, 2026packagingPrefect axes self-hosted Customer Managed plan, cuts it from all pricing tables
- Apr 24, 2026packagingPrefect Drops Customer Managed Tier, Simplifies Plan Lineup
- Week 11, 2026improvedPrefect boosts API rate limits 2.5x across all pricing tiers · this change
Across Data & Analytics in the same window
All Data & Analytics changes- TemporalApr 19Temporal Upgrades Provisioned Capacity to Public Preview
- Dagster LabsApr 13Dagster Labs doubles serverless compute rates, shifts plans to pay-as-you-go
- TemporalApr 3Temporal Advances Provisioned Capacity to Public Preview
- TemporalFeb 16Temporal ends 75% off Valentine's Day sale on Replay 26 tickets
- TemporalFeb 10Temporal offers 75% off Replay '26 tickets with code LOVE75 for Valentine's Day.
Questions about this change
Did Prefect raise prices in March 2026?
No list-price increase was recorded between Mar 2, 2026 and Mar 9, 2026. The change Pulse detected was a packaging change: limit increase.
What changed on Prefect's pricing page between Mar 2, 2026 and Mar 9, 2026?
Hobby, Starter, Team limit: 250 → 625/min (+150%). Pulse compared the captures it took on Mar 2, 2026 and Mar 9, 2026; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Prefect change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Prefect in the 90 days before this one; Prefect has been tracked since 2026-03-02.