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8 Best Dataflow Courses on Coursera

We compared 8 Dataflow courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $9.99 to $49.00. 7 of them teach the subject directly and 1 are built around a certification exam. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.

Courses compared
8
Price range
$9.99 – $49.00
Providers
Coursera
Last updated
30 Aug 2026
How these 8 courses were chosen

Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "dataflow" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.

The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.

There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $9.99 to $49.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.

  1. 1
    Coursera Certificate Grade B

    Serverless Data Processing with Dataflow

    Offered by Google Cloud

    It is becoming harder and harder to maintain a technology stack that can keep up with the growing demands of a data-driven business. Every Big Data practitioner is familiar with the three V’s of Big Data: volume, velocit...

    $49.00
    listed price
  2. 2
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade D Lowest price here

    Dataflow: Qwik Start - Templates

    Offered by Google Cloud

    In this self-paced lab, you'll navigate the Google Cloud console to create a streaming pipeline using a template provided by Google Cloud Dataflow. It's a practical hands-on experience designed to help you understand how...

    $9.99
    listed price
  3. 3
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade C

    ETL Processing on Google Cloud Using Dataflow and BigQuery

    Offered by Google Cloud

    This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. In this lab you will build several Data Pipelines that will ingest data from a publicly available dataset into BigQuery.

    $9.99
    listed price
  4. 4
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    GCP: Database, Storage, and Networking

    Offered by Whizlabs

    GCP: Database, Storage, and Networking is the first course of Exam Prep: Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Specialization. The course provides comprehensive coverage of Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), includin...

    $49.00
    listed price
  5. 5
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade C

    Como criar pipelines de dados de streaming no Google Cloud

    Offered by Google Cloud

    O processamento de dados de streaming é cada vez mais usado pelas empresas para gerar métricas sobre as operações comerciais em tempo real. Neste curso, você vai aprender a criar pipelines de dados de streaming no Google...

    $49.00
    listed price
  6. 6
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade B

    Data Engineering, Big Data, and Machine Learning on GCP

    Offered by Google Cloud

    This five-week, accelerated online specialization provides participants a hands-on introduction to designing and building data processing systems on Google Cloud Platform. Through a combination of presentations, demos, a...

    $49.00
    listed price
  7. 7
    Coursera MOOC / Non-credit Grade D

    Reconciling Account Data with Cloud Spanner Change Streams

    Offered by Google Cloud

    This is a self-paced lab that takes place in the Google Cloud console. Learn how to perform financial account reconciliation tasks using Cloud Spanner, Dataflow, and BigQuery.

    $9.99
    listed price
  8. 8
    Coursera Certificate Certification prep Grade B

    Exam Prep: Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer

    Offered by Whizlabs

    Exam Prep: Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Specialization is designed for individuals who aim to build a strong foundation in deploying, managing, and securing applications within the Google Cloud environ...

    $49.00
    listed price

Best Dataflow Courses on Coursera compared

Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.

What the prices here tell you

The 8 priced courses on this page run from $9.99 to $49.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $39.01. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.

Who is behind these courses

These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick.

Courses versus exam preparation

1 of the entries here are built around a certification exam rather than teaching Dataflow from scratch. They are the right choice only if you already know the material and want to pass a specific exam; if you are starting out, pick one of the taught courses first and come back to exam preparation afterwards.

Before you enrol

Open the provider’s own page and check three things this comparison cannot tell you: when the course was last updated, what the syllabus actually covers in its later sections, and what recent learners say. Prices shown here are the provider’s listed price when we last rebuilt this page on 30 August 2026 — they change often, and a promotion can move them substantially. We earn a commission if you enrol through our links, which costs you nothing and never affects the order courses appear in.

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