Comparison

Inngest 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.

Inngest full profile →Temporal full profile →

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Inngest56

★Temporal72

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Inngest	TemporalLeader
vioscaleAI score	56 / 100medium · 69%	72 / 100high · 76%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	freemium	freemium
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	low
Starting pricepricing.starting_price	-	$0.00
Transparentpricing.transparent	✗	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	3	3
Security
Certificationssecurity.certifications	SOC 2 Type II	-
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	-	✓
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	✓	✓
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	-	5.7
Soc2security.soc2	✓	✓
Trust centersecurity.trust_center	https://www.inngest.com/docs/learn/security	https://temporal.io/blog/trusting-ai-agents-a-reinsurance-case-study
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=inngest-cli&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0	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
Reliability
Sla pctreliability.sla_pct	-	99.9
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	2	30
Github starsadoption.github_stars	5,939	23,468
Package downloads weeklyadoption.package_downloads_weekly	2,477,593	8,455,032
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	100	100
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	4	3
Historyrelease.history	20 items	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	Apache-2.0	MIT
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Go	Go
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	-	Available worldwide · Popular in US
Content
Faqcontent.faq	7 items	8 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

Inngest56 / 100medium · 69%

Temporal72 / 100high · 76%

Pricing

Free tier

Inngest✓

Temporal✓

Model

Inngestfreemium

Temporalfreemium

Price level

Inngestlow

Temporallow

Starting price

Inngest–

Temporal$0.00

Transparent

Inngest✗

Temporal✓

Integrations

Count

Inngest3

Temporal3

Security

Certifications

InngestSOC 2 Type II

Temporal–

Disclosure policy

Inngest✓

Temporal✓

Gdpr

Inngest–

Temporal✓

Hipaa

Inngest✓

Temporal✓

Scorecard

Inngest–

Temporal5.7

Soc2

Inngest✓

Temporal✓

Trust center

Inngesthttps://www.inngest.com/docs/learn/security

Temporalhttps://temporal.io/blog/trusting-ai-agents-a-reinsurance-case-study

Vulnerabilities

InngestCount: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=inngest-cli&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0

TemporalCount: 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

Reliability

Sla pct

Inngest–

Temporal99.9

Status page

Inngest✓

Temporal✓

Adoption

Dependent repos

Inngest2

Temporal30

Github stars

Inngest5,939

Temporal23,468

Package downloads weekly

Inngest2,477,593

Temporal8,455,032

Activity

Commits last 30d

Inngest100

Temporal100

Release

Cadence days

Inngest4

Temporal3

History

Inngest20 items

Temporal20 items

License

Spdx

InngestApache-2.0

TemporalMIT

Language

Primary

InngestGo

TemporalGo

Market

Availability

Inngest–

TemporalAvailable worldwide · Popular in US

Content

Faq

Inngest7 items

Temporal8 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for message queues. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capability comparison for Message Queues
Capability	Inngest	Temporal
Core
Messaging paradigm	Durable execution	Durable execution
Correctness
Delivery guarantee	At-least-once	At-least-once
Ordering guarantee	-	-
Durability
Durable replayable log	✓	✓
Message replay / rewind	✓	✓
Interop
Wire protocol	HTTPS	gRPC
Kafka-protocol compatible	✗	-
Scale
Partitioned horizontal scaling	✓	✓
Geo / cross-region replication	-	✓
Consumption
Consumer groups / competing consumers	✗	-
Dead-letter queue	-	-
Deployment
Managed cloud offering exists	✓	✓
Hosting	Cloud + self-hosted	Cloud + self-hosted
Processing
Built-in stream processing	✗	-

Core

Messaging paradigm

InngestDurable execution

TemporalDurable execution

Correctness

Delivery guarantee

InngestAt-least-once

TemporalAt-least-once

Ordering guarantee

Inngest-

Temporal-

Durability

Durable replayable log

Inngest✓

Temporal✓

Message replay / rewind

Inngest✓

Temporal✓

Interop

Wire protocol

InngestHTTPS

TemporalgRPC

Kafka-protocol compatible

Inngest✗

Temporal-

Scale

Partitioned horizontal scaling

Inngest✓

Temporal✓

Geo / cross-region replication

Inngest-

Temporal✓

Consumption

Consumer groups / competing consumers

Inngest✗

Temporal-

Dead-letter queue

Inngest-

Temporal-

Deployment

Managed cloud offering exists

Inngest✓

Temporal✓

Hosting

InngestCloud + self-hosted

TemporalCloud + self-hosted

Processing

Built-in stream processing

Inngest✗

Temporal-

What each one is

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

Inngest

Inngest enables developers to write durable functions with built-in checkpointing and retry logic that survive failures. Functions execute step-by-step with automatic recovery and detailed observability, eliminating the need for manual infrastructure management.

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.

Inngest

from $0.50/moSubscriptionFree tier

Free tier available. Pro from $99/mo + metered usage.

HobbyFree
- 50k executions
- 5 concurrent executions
- 500 MB span data ingested
- 10K scores
- 500k events ingested
- +6 more
ProStarting at $99/mo + metered usage
- 1M executions included
- Pay as you go up to 20M
- 100+ concurrent executions
- 5 GB span data ingested
- 50K scores
- +8 more
EnterpriseContact sales
- Custom executions
- Custom concurrent executions
- Custom span data ingested
- Custom scores
- Custom events ingested
- +5 more

as of 2026-08-03verify ↗

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 2026-10-05verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Inngest	Temporal
WebPlatforms	✓	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✓
HybridDeployment	✗	✓

Platforms

Web

Inngest✓

Temporal✓

CLI

Inngest✓

Temporal✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Inngest✓

Temporal✓

Self-hosted

Inngest✓

Temporal✓

Hybrid

Inngest✗

Temporal✓

Integrations

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

Inngest

6 total

Datadog
Vercel
OpenAI
Discord
Deno
PostgreSQL

Independently observed

Temporal

Leader

7 total

Google ADK
OpenAI Agents SDK
AWS Lambda
AWS RDS
GCP Cloud SQL
Vercel's AI SDK
Google Agent Development Kit (ADK)

Independently observed

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