Temporal Cloud
Default durable orchestration for serious long-running agents. Inngest/Trigger.dev for lighter DX.
Default durable orchestration for serious long-running agents. Inngest/Trigger.dev for lighter DX. Strengths: Battle-tested durable workflows; OSS + cloud; Excellent failure recovery.
Lock-in risk: higher = more lock-in (worse). Overall already inverts this dimension.
Default durable orchestration for serious long-running agents. Inngest/Trigger.dev for lighter DX.
Strengths
- · Battle-tested durable workflows
- · OSS + cloud
- · Excellent failure recovery
Weaknesses
- · Steeper learning curve
- · Overkill for simple cron agents
- · Cloud cost vs Inngest simplicity
Pricing notes
As of 2026-10-21 (temporal.io/pricing and docs.temporal.io/cloud/pricing, fetched 2026-10-21): Durable execution for long-running agent workflows. Developer plan is Pay-As-You-Go with no base monthly fee ('No base fee - 10% of Usage Spend') and Actions at $50 per million at every volume. Business is 'Greater of $500/mo or 10% of usage', includes 2.5M Actions, 2.5 GB Active Storage and 100 GB Retained Storage, with progressive Action discounts ('Self service down to $25 per million actions'). Storage is metered separately: $0.042 per GBh active, $0.00105 per GBh retained. Enterprise and Mission Critical are priced annually via Sales. temporal.io/pricing also lists 'Free $150 credits for 90 days'. The earlier 'Cloud Essentials' plan no longer appears on either page. See plan limits (/api/estimate) for the encoded plans. OSS Temporal free to self-host. Best for reliable multi-step agent orchestration with retries/state.
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