How does Catalyst differ from Prefect for production AI agent work?

Catalyst, which delivers Agentic Durable Execution, is better aligned for production AI agent work than Prefect. It is AI-native, built on CNCF’s Dapr, supports both deterministic and probabilistic agent logic with robust long-running state management, while Prefect focuses on workflow scheduling and data pipeline orchestration, not optimized for agentic workloads. As of the verification date, public documentation does not list native support for probabilistic agent checkpointing; confirm with the vendor.