Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is Temporal?
Durable execution platform that enables developers to build reliable applications by automatically capturing state at every step and seamlessly recovering from any failure without manual intervention.
Temporal pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From $100/mo. Free tier: $1,000 cloud credits for new customers. Usage-based overages: Actions from $50/5M tiered to $25/5M; Storage $0.042/GBh (active), $0.00105/GBh (retained). Annual commitments available for discounts. Open-source self-hosted option free.
Essentials
For basic workflows
- actions
- 1M/mo
- active_storage
- 1GB
- retained_storage
- 40GB
- 1 M Actions
- 1 GB Active Storage
- 40 GB Retained Storage
- Cloud platform
- 99.9% SLA, 99.99% HA options
- Multi-Cloud & Multi-Region
- User Roles
- Service Accounts & API Keys
- Audit Logging
- Workflow Management
- Workflow Availability
- Essentials support with 1 business day P0 response time
- Core platform configuration
Business
For teams scaling Temporal
- actions
- 2.5M/mo
- active_storage
- 2.5GB
- retained_storage
- 100GB
- 2.5 M Actions
- 2.5 GB Active Storage
- 100 GB Retained Storage
- Cloud platform
- Everything in Essentials
- SAML SSO included
- SCIM add-on
- Business support with 2 business hours P0 response times
- Workflow troubleshooting
- Worker configuration
- SDK implementation
Enterprise
Contact salesFor enterprise deployments
- actions
- 10M/mo
- active_storage
- 10GB
- retained_storage
- 400GB
- 10 M Actions
- 10 GB Active Storage
- 400 GB Retained Storage
- Cloud platform
- Everything in Business
- SAML SSO included
- SCIM included
- Enterprise support with 24/7, 30 minute P0 response time
- Usage optimization
- Technical onboarding
- Design review
- Worker tuning
- Senior support staff
- Cost reviews
- Security and contract reviews
Mission Critical
Contact salesFor mission-critical workloads
- actions
- 10M/mo
- active_storage
- 10GB
- retained_storage
- 400GB
- 10 M Actions
- 10 GB Active Storage
- 400 GB Retained Storage
- Cloud platform
- Everything in Enterprise
- Dedicated Platform Architect add-on
- Mission Critical add-on
Add-ons
- SCIM
- Dedicated Platform Architect
- Mission Critical
What Temporal does
The capabilities that matter for message queues, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Messaging paradigm
- Durable execution
- Delivery guarantee
- At-least-once
- Ordering guarantee
- -
- Durable replayable log
- ✓
- Message replay / rewind
- ✓
- Wire protocol
- -
- Kafka-protocol compatible
- ✗
- Partitioned horizontal scaling
- ✓
- Geo / cross-region replication
- ✓
- Consumer groups / competing consumers
- -
- Dead-letter queue
- -
- Managed cloud offering exists
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
- Built-in stream processing
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (2)
Independently observed- Google ADK
- OpenAI Agents SDK
Temporal alternatives
Other message queues we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Apache KafkaDistributed event streaming platform for high-performance data pipelines and streaming analyticslow · 26%
- NATSlow · 30%
- RedpandaHigh-performance Kafka-compatible streaming platform for real-time data and AI agentslow · 45%
- RabbitMQlow · 26%
- WarpStream10x Cheaper Than Kafkamedium · 62%
- Apache KafkaDistributed event streaming platform for high-performance data pipelines and streaming analyticslow · 34%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Temporal, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 95 | 0.17 | 16.6 | ✓ |
| Package Downloads | 89 | 0.15 | 13.6 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 60 | 0.13 | 7.7 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 0.07 | 7.0 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 63 | 0.10 | 6.6 | ✓ |
| Release Cadence | 98 | 0.06 | 5.7 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 75 | 0.07 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 82 | 0.03 | 2.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 14 | 0.09 | 1.3 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 25 | 0.05 | 1.2 | ✓ |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 100 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"both","paradigm":"durable_exec","message_replay":true,"persistent_log":true,"geo_replication":true,"kafka_compatible":false,"managed_offering":true,"delivery_guarantee":"at_least_once","horizontal_scaling":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 2 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 63% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | MIT | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 99% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 50% |
Pricing
Release
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Cadence days | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 70% |