Temporal alternatives

Where Temporal stands against these 9

Temporal's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.

Free tier

No. 8 of the 9 alternatives that document it have one: Amazon SQS, Cloudflare Queues, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Hatchet, Inngest, Upstash QStash and 2 more.

Regions

20 regions for Temporal Cloud Namespaces: 14 AWS regions and 6 Google Cloud regions, each with a PrivateLink…2nd highest of the 4 that document it. Highest: Amazon SQS — 34 commercial AWS Regions plus 2 AWS GovCloud (US) Regions listed in the SQS service endpoints table.

Uptime SLA

99.9% on the pay-as-you-go Temporal Cloud plan (no base fee), with 99.99% High Availability optionsJoint 2nd highest of the 4 that document it. Highest: Google Cloud Pub/Sub — 99.95% or better for Pub/Sub.

Maximum message size

2 MB maximum payload per request (each Workflow/Activity argument or return value); 4 MB per Event History…4th highest of the 9 that document it. Highest: Inngest — 4 MiB per step-returned payload; 32 MiB total function run state; 10 MiB hard cap per event batch.

Maximum delay

Timers (durable sleeps) may run up to 100 years in Temporal CloudHighest of the 5 that document it. Next: Inngest — Step sleeps up to 1 year on paid plans; the free plan supports sleeps up to 7 days.