Temporal Alternatives

Temporal is described as 'What if your code never failed? Failures happen. Temporal makes them irrelevant. Build applications that never lose state, even when everything else fails' and is an app in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Temporal for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, SaaS and Self-Hosted apps. The best Temporal alternative is Windmill Labs, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Temporal are Apache Airflow, Superblocks, Zenaton and Workflow Engine .NET.

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  1. Windmill Labs icon
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    Turn scripts into sharable apps and APIs, compose them as workflows or data pipelines and expose them with UIs on the fastest and most reliable job orchestrator. Self-hostable worker infrastructure: horizontally scalable, reliable, ultra-fast.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
    • Windmill Labs is the most popular SaaS & Self-Hosted alternative to Temporal.

    • Windmill Labs is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Temporal.

    • Windmill Labs is Freemium and Open SourceTemporal is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Airflow is a platform to programmaticaly author, schedule and monitor data pipelines.

    34 Apache Airflow alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
    • Apache Airflow is the most popular Linux alternative to Temporal.

    • Apache Airflow is Free and Open SourceTemporal is Freemium and Proprietary
  3. Superblocks icon
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    Superblocks is a low-code platform for developers. Rapidly develop custom enterprise-grade internal apps to streamline customer support and drive operational efficiency.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  4. Zenaton icon
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    Zenaton is a developer tool and hosted workflow engine for writing, running and monitoring all of your background processes whether it is a single task or a long running workflow. It allows developers to easily integrate third party services and APIs iby triggering tasks and...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Clever Cloud
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Heroku
     
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    WorkflowEngine.NET - component that adds workflow in your application. It can be fully integrated into your application, or be in the form of a specific service (such as a web service).

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • .NET Framework
     
    • Workflow Engine .NET is the most popular Windows & Mac alternative to Temporal.

    • Workflow Engine .NET is the most popular commercial alternative to Temporal.

    • Workflow Engine .NET is Paid and ProprietaryTemporal is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Imixs Workflow is a BPM Framework with the goal to reduce the complexity of business applications. Based on the BPMN 2.0 standard you can change your business logic without changing a single line of code.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Eclipse
     
    • Imixs-Workflow is the most popular Android & iPhone alternative to Temporal.

    • Imixs-Workflow is Free and Open SourceTemporal is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Workflow Engine is a lightweight all-in-one component that enables you to add custom executable workflows of any complexity to any .NET or Java software, be it your own creation or a third-party solution, with minimal changes to existing code.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Signavio icon
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    The Signavio Process Editor was created in order to be very intuitive and easy to use. Besides professional process modeling, the Signavio Process Editor offers numerous possibilities to include as many process participants as possible in process design.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Activiti icon
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    Activiti is a light-weight workflow and Business Process Management (BPM) Platform targeted at business people, developers and system admins. Its core is a super-fast and rock-solid BPMN 2 process engine for Java.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. Prefect icon
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    Prefect is an orchestrator for data-intensive workflows. It's the simplest way to transform any Python function into a unit of work that can be observed and orchestrated. With Prefect, you can build resilient, dynamic workflows that react to the world around them and recover...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • Prefect is the most popular Web-based alternative to Temporal.

    • Prefect is Freemium and Open SourceTemporal is Freemium and Proprietary
  11. Obelisk icon
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    Deterministic workflow engine. Add resiliency to your workflows.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Docker
     
  12. Velda icon
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    Velda is a dev-environment that allows developers to run jobs with cloud compute resource like GPUs without any other extra setup.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Online
     
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