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temporal.io · Queues and background jobs
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Durable execution platform metered in Actions, with storage split between open and closed workflows, and a self-hosted open-source edition.

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Entry paid planNo plan fee or minimum: pay-as-you-go has no base monthly fee and bills usage from $50 per million Actions, plus storage and Developer support at 10% of usage. New accounts start with $150 in credits valid for 90 days. The Business support add-on starts at $500/month.
GitHub stars22,983temporalio/temporal
Regions20 regions for Temporal Cloud Namespaces: 14 AWS regions and 6 Google Cloud regions, each with a PrivateLink or Private Service Connect endpoint.
Free tierNo

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 25 criteria comparedSources last checked

Temporal pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
No plan fee or minimum: pay-as-you-go has no base monthly fee and bills usage from $50 per million Actions, plus storage and Developer… source ↗
Pricing model
Pay-as-you-go per Action with no base monthly fee: from $50 per million Actions, falling with volume to $25 self-serve source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Temporal pricing below. How this free offer stacks up: cloud free tiers compared.

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Long-running, stateful workflows where losing execution history is the failure that matters — Temporal keeps event history as first-class storage rather than logs that expire.

Consider something else if…

You want to budget by counting jobs: pay-as-you-go bills from $50 per million Actions, a unit that does not map onto messages or task runs, plus storage and 10% of usage for support; the $150 starting credit lasts 90 days.

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Open source: temporalio/temporal · 22,983 stars · 1,894 forks

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Temporal pricing

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Free tierNo
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Kind of free offerFree credit
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Credit card to startYes — Card required to sign up for Temporal Cloud; not charged in the first 90 days while credits remain.
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  • Temporal Cloud Pricing ↗

    “A credit card is required to sign up for Temporal Cloud. [...] Your card will not be charged during the first 90 days as long as you have remaining credits.”

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Entry paid planNo plan fee or minimum: pay-as-you-go has no base monthly fee and bills usage from $50 per million Actions, plus storage and Developer support at 10% of usage. New accounts start with $150 in credits valid for 90 days. The Business support add-on starts at $500/month.
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  • Temporal Platform Pricing Options | Temporal ↗

    “No commitment. No minimums. [...] Pay-As-You-Go Starting at $50 per million actions Get started for free Free $150 credits for 90 days No base monthly fee $0.042/GBhr Active Storage $0.00105/GBhr Retained Storage Developer support for 10% of usage [...] Business Starting at $500/month”

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Pricing modelPay-as-you-go per Action with no base monthly fee: from $50 per million Actions, falling with volume to $25 self-serve. Storage is billed separately per GB-hour ($0.042 active, $0.00105 retained), and Developer support costs 10% of usage. The Business support add-on is the greater of $500/month or 10% of usage.
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  • Temporal Platform Pricing Options | Temporal ↗

    “Pay-As-You-Go Starting at $50 per million actions [...] No base monthly fee $0.042/GBhr Active Storage $0.00105/GBhr Retained Storage Developer support for 10% of usage 99.9% SLA and 99.99% HA Options SSO via SAML Volume Discounts Self service down to $25 per million actions [...] Price: Greater of $500/mo or 10% of usage”

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Startup credit programTemporal Cloud startup credits: $6,000, for funded startups that have raised $30M or less.
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Infrastructure

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Regions20 regions for Temporal Cloud Namespaces: 14 AWS regions and 6 Google Cloud regions, each with a PrivateLink or Private Service Connect endpoint.
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Uptime SLA99.9% on the pay-as-you-go Temporal Cloud plan (no base fee), with 99.99% High Availability options.
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Queues

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Included per monthNo monthly Actions allocation on pay-as-you-go, which bills every Action used. Business includes 2.5 million Actions a month, and Enterprise and Mission Critical include 10 million. An Action is Temporal's own unit (a workflow operation) and is not comparable to a message, operation or execution elsewhere in this category.
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  • Temporal Cloud Pricing ↗

    “Some plans include a monthly Actions allocation (2.5M on Business, 10M on Enterprise/Mission Critical). [...] On the Temporal Cloud pay-as-you-go model, you are only billed for what you use (actions, storage, support).”

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Maximum message size2 MB maximum payload per request (each Workflow/Activity argument or return value); 4 MB per Event History transaction, non-configurable.
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Message retentionClosed workflow Event History is kept for a Retention Period set per Namespace, up to 90 days on Temporal Cloud; longer needs the Export feature. Business includes 2.5 GB Active and 100 GB Retained Storage. Recorded without a magnitude: this is workflow-history retention, not how long an undelivered message survives.
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  • Temporal Cloud pricing | Temporal Documentation ↗

    “Temporal Cloud stores Event History for a defined Retention Period [...] When closed Workflow Histories need to be retained for more than the 90-day maximum period on Temporal Cloud, we recommend using our Export feature. [...] 2.5M Actions - 2.5 GB Active Storage - 100 GB Retained Storage”

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Maximum delayTimers (durable sleeps) may run up to 100 years in Temporal Cloud.
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Concurrency500 Actions per second per Namespace by default, auto-scaling above that with On-Demand Capacity; 20,000 Activity and 20,000 Workflow Task pollers per Namespace.
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Support

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Support on entry paid planDeveloper support comes with pay-as-you-go and is billed at 10% of usage. The Business support add-on, the greater of $500/month or 10% of usage, adds advanced technical support with a 2-hour P0 SLA in business hours.
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Response time commitmentP0 response: 1 business day on Developer (the pay-as-you-go support level), 2 business hours on Business, 30 minutes on Enterprise and 15 minutes on Mission Critical. No comparable number, because a business day is not a fixed span.
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  • Services, support, and training | Temporal Documentation ↗

    “Availability and response times by plan: Developer Business Enterprise Mission Critical [...] Response Time P0 : 1 business day P1 : 1 business day P2 : 1 business day P3 : 2 business days P0 : 2 business hours P1 : 2 business hours P2 : 1 business day P3 : 2 business days P0 : 30 minutes P1 : 1 business hour P2 : 4 business hours P3 : 1 business day P0 : 15 minutes”

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Compliance

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SOC 2SOC 2 Type II certified; trust center lists SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, HIPAA and CCPA badges.
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ISO 27001ISMS is informed by the NIST Cybersecurity Framework; the DPA's certification/assurance measure names only third-party SOC 2 Type II audits. Adjacent evidence: the DPA claims no ISO 27001 certificate, but no Temporal page explicitly denies one.
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  • Temporal Data Processing Addendum - Annex 2, Technical and Organizational Security Measures ↗

    “implementing an information security management program that is informed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework. [...] Temporal Technologies ensures assurance of products and processes by conducting third party audits of the service according to the 2018 Description Criteria for a Description of a Service Organization's System in a SOC 2 Type II Report as issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.”

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HIPAATemporal Cloud is stated to be compliant with HIPAA regulations; HIPAA listed among trust-center certifications.
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GDPR / data residencyGDPR compliant with a DPA reflecting GDPR; Namespaces do not share data processing or storage across regional boundaries.
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PCI DSSTerms of Service bar customers from submitting payment card information to the Hosted Services; only contact name, title and email address are permitted. Clause 1.6 Personal Data; a contractual data restriction, not a statement about PCI DSS certification.
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  • Terms of Service - April 2025 | Temporal Technologies ↗

    “Except for contact information consisting of first and last name, title and email address for which Customer has obtained necessary rights of access and use from the individual, Customer agrees not to submit other personal data or any sensitive personal information (including government issued identification numbers, financial account information, payment card information, and personal health information) to Temporal.”

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Encryption at restPersistence layer and Elasticsearch index encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM; TLS 1.3 in transit.
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Customer-managed keysClient-side Data Converter encrypts payloads with your keys on your Workers before they reach Temporal Cloud, which cannot decrypt them; no server-side KMS option stated.
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  • Security model | Temporal Documentation ↗

    “The optional Data Converter encrypts data before it's sent to Temporal Cloud and decrypts it on the way back. [...] Temporal Cloud cannot see or decrypt your data. Data stored in Temporal Cloud stays encrypted even if the service itself is compromised.”

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Role-based access controlPredefined account-level roles (Account Owner, Global Admin, Developer, Finance Admin, Read-Only) plus Namespace-level permissions (Admin, Write, Read-Only), with optional Custom Roles for granular access.
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  • Roles and permissions | Temporal Documentation ↗

    “Some account-level roles, such as Account Owner and Global Admin, automatically have Namespace Admin permissions on all Namespaces in the account. [...] For more granular access control, you can also use Custom Roles to define specific permissions for specific Temporal Cloud resources and assign them to any principal. [...] You can grant Namespace Admin, Write, or Read-Only permissions to principals with the account-level roles of Developer, Finance Admin, or Read-Only.”

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Private networking / VPCAWS PrivateLink or GCP Private Service Connect to Namespaces, alongside the default public endpoints.
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Dedicated infrastructureTemporal Cloud is a multi-tenant service; Namespaces are logically segregated and do not share data processing or data storage across regional boundaries. No single-tenant or dedicated-cell option is offered anywhere in the Cloud docs or the plan matrix.
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  • Security model - Temporal Cloud ↗

    “Temporal Cloud is a multi-tenant service. Namespaces in the same environment are logically segregated. Namespaces do not share data processing or data storage across regional boundaries.”

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Temporal pricing questions

How much does Temporal cost?

No plan fee or minimum: pay-as-you-go has no base monthly fee and bills usage from $50 per million Actions, plus storage and Developer support at 10% of usage. New accounts start with $150 in credits valid for 90 days. The Business support add-on starts at $500/month.

Temporal Platform Pricing Options | Temporal · read

How does Temporal charge?

Pay-as-you-go per Action with no base monthly fee: from $50 per million Actions, falling with volume to $25 self-serve. Storage is billed separately per GB-hour ($0.042 active, $0.00105 retained), and Developer support costs 10% of usage. The Business support add-on is the greater of $500/month or 10% of usage.

Temporal Platform Pricing Options | Temporal · read

Does Temporal have a free tier?

No free tier; the free offer is a free credit.

Temporal Platform Pricing Options | Temporal · read

Do you need a credit card to start on Temporal?

Yes — Card required to sign up for Temporal Cloud; not charged in the first 90 days while credits remain.

Temporal Cloud Pricing · read

What uptime does Temporal guarantee?

99.9% on the pay-as-you-go Temporal Cloud plan (no base fee), with 99.99% High Availability options.

Temporal Platform Pricing Options | Temporal · read

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