Prophet
MLOps & Infrastructure
Overview
Prophet is an open-source Python forecasting library developed by Facebook's Core Data Science team for automatic time-series forecasting. It forecasts data that can be broken down daily, weekly, and yearly, including strong seasonal effects across multiple seasons of historical data. Prophet detects seasonal patterns, handles holidays and events, is robust to missing data and outliers, and integrates with popular data-analysis ecosystems.
- Pricing model
- Free
- Deployment
- Self-hosted / on-premises, API / SDK
- Regions served
- Global
- Categories
- Free, MLOps & Infrastructure, Software & technology, Workflow orchestration, API / SDK, Self-hosted / on-premises, Predictive / classical ML, Functional application
- Last updated
- 2 October 2026
- Published
- 2 October 2026
Use cases
Deployment options
Data sources & provenance
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- Data quality
- Data quality: Editorially Reviewed
- Primary source
- facebook.github.io
- Sources cited
- 2
- Last reviewed
- 28 September 2026
- Last updated
- 2 October 2026
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