# Conductor (Orkes) vs Temporal

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Temporal

| Attribute | Conductor (Orkes) | Temporal |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 47.9 (60% (medium)) | 71.5 (76% (high)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 30 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 23,468 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 8,455,032 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A production-grade system that runs AI agents and declarative workflows on a single platform. It allows organizations to build applications where intelligent agents work alongside deterministic processes, providing persistent state management, auditability, and operational controls. It is indexed under Workflow Automation Software.","source":"https://orkes.io/pricing","question":"What is Conductor (Orkes)?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Conductor (Orkes) does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 2 plans (Developer Edition and Enterprise), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://orkes.io/pricing","question":"How much does Conductor (Orkes) cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Conductor (Orkes) supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://orkes.io/pricing","question":"What platforms does Conductor (Orkes) support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Conductor (Orkes) can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://orkes.io/pricing","question":"Can Conductor (Orkes) be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 6 integrations for Conductor (Orkes), including Slack, OpenAI, Vertex AI, Hugging Face, Pinecone and Weaviate. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://orkes.io/pricing","question":"What does Conductor (Orkes) integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and GDPR for Conductor (Orkes). Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Conductor (Orkes) not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://orkes.io/security","question":"What security certifications does Conductor (Orkes) have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Conductor (Orkes) is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://orkes.io/pricing","question":"Where is Conductor (Orkes) available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"Temporal is a durable execution platform that automatically captures and persists application state, allowing workflows to recover from failures and resume exactly where they left off. It eliminates manual reconciliation code and enables building AI agents, orchestrations, and complex business processes across multiple programming languages. It is indexed under Message Queues.","source":"https://temporal.io/blog/temporal-cloud-pricing-update","question":"What is Temporal?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Temporal offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $100 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://temporal.io/blog/temporal-cloud-pricing-update","question":"Is Temporal free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Temporal supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://temporal.io/blog/temporal-cloud-pricing-update","question":"What platforms does Temporal support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Temporal can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://temporal.io/blog/temporal-cloud-pricing-update","question":"Can Temporal be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 5 integrations for Temporal, including Google ADK, OpenAI Agents SDK, AWS Lambda, AWS RDS and GCP Cloud SQL. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://temporal.io/blog/temporal-cloud-pricing-update","question":"What does Temporal integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Temporal. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Temporal not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://temporal.io/security","question":"What security certifications does Temporal have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. Temporal is published under the MIT licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal","question":"Is Temporal open source?","confidence":0.99},{"answer":"Temporal is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://temporal.io/blog/temporal-cloud-pricing-update","question":"Where is Temporal available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | - | `{"hosting":"both","paradigm":"durable_exec","protocol":"gRPC","message_replay":true,"persistent_log":true,"geo_replication":true,"managed_offering":true,"delivery_guarantee":"at_least_once","horizontal_scaling":true}` |
| integrations.count | 36 | 3 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"communication","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"OpenAI","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Azure OpenAI","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Vertex AI","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Hugging Face","native":true,"category":"ai","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Pinecone","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Weaviate","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"GitHub","native":true,"category":"vcs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"GitLab","native":true,"category":"vcs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Bitbucket","native":true,"category":"vcs","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Jira","native":true,"category":"project_management","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Stripe","native":true,"category":"payments","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"SendGrid","native":true,"category":"email","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"HubSpot","native":true,"category":"crm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Notion","native":true,"category":"productivity","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Discourse","native":true,"category":"community","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"WordPress","native":true,"category":"cms","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Drive","native":true,"category":"cloud_storage","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage","native":true,"category":"cloud_storage","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"AWS S3","native":true,"category":"cloud_storage","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Azure Storage","native":true,"category":"cloud_storage","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Sheets","native":true,"category":"productivity","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Docs","native":true,"category":"productivity","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Slides","native":true,"category":"productivity","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Calendar","native":true,"category":"productivity","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Cloud Functions","native":true,"category":"serverless","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"AWS Lambda","native":true,"category":"serverless","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Azure Functions","native":true,"category":"serverless","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"MySQL","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"PostgreSQL","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"MongoDB","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Redis","native":true,"category":"cache","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Supabase","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"IBM MQ","native":true,"category":"messaging","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Ollama","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Grok","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Perplexity","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"CommonRoom","native":true,"category":"community","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Tesla Powerwall","native":true,"category":"smart_home","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Amber Electric","native":true,"category":"energy","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"NetZero","native":true,"category":"energy","direction":"bidirectional"}]` | `[{"name":"Google ADK"},{"name":"OpenAI Agents SDK"},{"name":"AWS Lambda","native":true,"category":"compute"},{"name":"AWS RDS","native":true,"category":"database"},{"name":"GCP Cloud SQL","native":true,"category":"database"},{"name":"Vercel's AI SDK","native":true,"category":"ai"},{"name":"Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)","native":true,"category":"ai"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Go |
| license.spdx | - | MIT |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Developer Edition","summary":"Free for development use","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Free Developer Edition available; enterprise pricing by quote","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://orkes.io/blog/tesla-powerwall-amber-negative-pricing-automation","retrievedAt":"2026-09-16T15:30:18.785Z"}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Paygo with Developer Support","summary":"$0/mo minimum, $0.000025 per action","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"action"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.000025,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Pay-as-you-go consumption-based pricing with developer support included","contactSales":false}],"summary":"From $0.000025 per action with $0/mo minimum. Free trial available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://temporal.io/blog/introducing-pay-as-you-go-pricing-for-temporal-cloud-on-the-aws-marketplace","retrievedAt":"2026-10-05T10:05:08.415Z","freeTrialDays":90,"startingPrice":{"unit":"action","amount":0.000025,"currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":0.000025,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 3 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.30.7","date":"2026-09-18T00:08:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.30.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.31.3","date":"2026-09-18T20:31:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.31.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.32.0","date":"2026-09-11T16:10:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.32.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.31.2","date":"2026-07-08T17:10:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.31.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.30.6","date":"2026-07-08T17:10:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.30.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.30.5","date":"2026-06-15T20:06:55Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.30.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.29.7","date":"2026-06-12T16:51:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.29.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.31.1","date":"2026-06-10T16:46:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.31.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.30.4.1","date":"2026-05-01T22:37:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.30.4.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.31.0","date":"2026-04-29T21:09:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.31.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.29.6.1","date":"2026-05-06T20:41:23Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.29.6.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.30.4","date":"2026-04-10T21:06:39Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.30.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.29.6","date":"2026-04-10T21:07:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.29.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.28.4","date":"2026-04-10T21:07:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.28.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.30.3","date":"2026-04-01T17:55:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.30.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.29.5","date":"2026-04-01T17:55:00Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.29.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.28.3.1","date":"2026-03-26T20:05:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.28.3.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.29.4.1","date":"2026-03-25T17:07:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.29.4.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.30.2","date":"2026-03-24T22:40:36Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.30.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases/tag/v1.28.3","date":"2026-03-18T17:30:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v1.28.3"}]` |
| reliability.sla_pct | 99.99 | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` | - |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | - | 5.7 |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://orkes.io/security | https://temporal.io/blog/trusting-ai-agents-a-reinsurance-case-study |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":6,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=go.temporal.io%2Fserver&per_page=100","last_12m":4,"max_severity":"MODERATE"}` |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:59:02.515Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*
