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Comparison

Conductor (Orkes) vs Temporal

On the evidence we track, Temporal leads this comparison with a composite score of 72/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Conductor (Orkes)48
★Temporal72
Score
vioscaleAI score
Conductor (Orkes)48 / 100medium · 60%
Temporal72 / 100high · 76%
Pricing
Free tier
Conductor (Orkes)✓
Temporal✓
Model
Conductor (Orkes)freemium
Temporalfreemium
Price level
Conductor (Orkes)low
Temporallow
Starting price
Conductor (Orkes)–
Temporal$0.00
Transparent
Conductor (Orkes)✗
Temporal✓
Integrations
Count
Conductor (Orkes)36
Temporal3
Security
Certifications
Conductor (Orkes)SOC 2 Type II
Temporal–
Disclosure policy
Conductor (Orkes)✓
Temporal✓
Gdpr
Conductor (Orkes)✓
Temporal✓
Hipaa
Conductor (Orkes)–
Temporal✓
Scorecard
Conductor (Orkes)–
Temporal5.7
Soc2
Conductor (Orkes)✓
Temporal✓
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
Conductor (Orkes)99.99
Temporal99.9
Status page
Conductor (Orkes)–
Temporal✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Conductor (Orkes)–
Temporal30
Github stars
Conductor (Orkes)–
Temporal23,468
Package downloads weekly
Conductor (Orkes)–
Temporal8,455,032
Activity
Commits last 30d
Conductor (Orkes)–
Temporal100
Release
Cadence days
Conductor (Orkes)–
Temporal3
History
Conductor (Orkes)–
Temporal20 items
License
Spdx
Conductor (Orkes)–
TemporalMIT
Language
Primary
Conductor (Orkes)–
TemporalGo
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Conductor (Orkes)7 items
Temporal8 items

Features

The capabilities each product documents. These tools do not share a category taxonomy, so this aligns what each vendor states rather than a normalised feature set.

Declared feature comparison
FeatureConductor (Orkes)Temporal
Delivery guarantee-at_least_once
Geo replication-✓
Horizontal scaling-✓
Hosting-both
Managed offering-✓
Message replay-✓
Paradigm-durable_exec
Persistent log-✓
Protocol-gRPC

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Conductor (Orkes)

An open-source and enterprise workflow automation platform that manages long-running, resilient execution of business processes and integrations with full observability, error handling, and state persistence. Supports LLM-powered AI tasks, native integrations, and human-in-the-loop approvals.

Independently observed

Temporal

Leader

A durable execution platform that simplifies building resilient distributed systems by automatically managing workflow state, retries, and recovery. It eliminates the need for custom failure handling, reconciliation logic, and infrastructure like message queues or schedulers.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Conductor (Orkes)

HybridFree tier

Free Developer Edition available; enterprise pricing by quote

  • Developer EditionFree
as of verify ↗

Temporal

Leader
from $0.00/actionUsage-basedFree tier90-day trial

From $0.000025 per action with $0/mo minimum. Free trial available.

  • Paygo with Developer Support$0/mo minimum, $0.000025 per action
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Conductor (Orkes)✓
Temporal✓
CLI
Conductor (Orkes)✓
Temporal✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Conductor (Orkes)✓
Temporal✓
Self-hosted
Conductor (Orkes)✓
Temporal✓
Hybrid
Conductor (Orkes)✗
Temporal✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (1)
  • AWS Lambda

Conductor (Orkes)

42 total - 41 not shared
  • Slack
  • OpenAI
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Vertex AI
  • Hugging Face
  • Pinecone
  • Weaviate
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Bitbucket
  • Jira
  • Stripe
  • SendGrid
  • HubSpot
  • Notion
  • Discourse
  • WordPress
  • Google Drive
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • AWS S3
  • Azure Storage
  • Google Sheets
  • Google Docs
  • Google Slides
  • +17 more
Independently observed

Temporal

Leader
7 total - 6 not shared
  • Google ADK
  • OpenAI Agents SDK
  • AWS RDS
  • GCP Cloud SQL
  • Vercel's AI SDK
  • Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)
Independently observed
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