Temporal
Durable-execution platform — Workflows-as-code with crash safety. Used as agent-orchestration backbone at Stripe, Snap, Coinbase, OpenAI Stargate.
Active · Verified 2026-10-27 · fresh as of 2026-10-27 · 22 cited facts, 3 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Durable execution platform vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Latest release
- v1.32.1 (2026-10-08) — server; Python SDK v1.34.0 (2026-09-30) repo fix
- Pricing
- Temporal Cloud: Pay-As-You-Go from USD 50 per million actions (volume down to USD 25/M) plus storage; Business from USD 500/mo; Enterprise and Mission Critical custom vendor fix
- Funding
- $350M total raised through Series C 2023-05 ($120M, StepStone Group led; $1.7B valuation). third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-27 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- open-source vendor fix
- SDK languages
- csharp, go, java, php, python, ruby, rust, typescript vendor fix
- Compliance
- ccpa, gdpr, hipaa, soc2-type2 vendor fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 55.01 (12-mo avg 54.4) · 130 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
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Pros & cons
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Claims & capabilities
$120M Series C 2024 at $1.72B (Tiger led).
Technical surface
- API surface
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- Backend storage
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Deployment
- Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Temporal Cloud or self-hosted Temporal server
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
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- MCP
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- A2A
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- OpenTelemetry
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Sources (21 cited facts, 3 third-party)
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- What it is Durable execution platform vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Durable-execution platform — Workflows-as-code with crash safety. Used as agent-orchestr… vendor
- Claims / benefits $120M Series C 2024 at $1.72B (Tiger led). vendor
- Created 2019 repo
- Latest release v1.32.1 (2026-10-08) — server; Python SDK v1.34.0 (2026-09-30) repo
- License MIT repo
- GitHub temporalio/temporal — ~24k stars, last commit 2026-10 repo
- Funding $350M total raised through Series C 2023-05 ($120M, StepStone Group led; $1.7B valuation). third-party
- Customers / scale Snap, Stripe, Box, Coinbase, Datadog, DoorDash, Twilio, Yelp; durable execution. vendor
- Pricing Temporal Cloud: Pay-As-You-Go from USD 50 per million actions (volume down to USD 25/M) … vendor
- Deployment Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Temporal Cloud or self-hosted Temporal server vendor
- HQ Seattle, WA, USA. third-party
- Founders / pedigree Maxim Fateev (CEO), Samar Abbas (CTO); founded 2019 (formerly Uber Cadence team). vendor
- Runtimes Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, .NET, Ruby, PHP, Rust vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid vendor
- licensing-bucket open-source vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":421.63,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":54.4,"openrank_current":55.01,"part… third-party
- compliance-certifications ccpa,gdpr,hipaa,soc2-type2 vendor
- sdk-languages csharp,go,java,php,python,ruby,rust,typescript vendor
What changed
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- 2026-10-27
- License first recorded as “MIT” source
- Latest release first recorded as “v1.32.1 (2026-10-08) — server; Python SDK v1.34.0 (2026-09-30)” source
- Pricing first recorded as “Temporal Cloud: Pay-As-You-Go from USD 50 per million actions (volume down to USD 25/M) plus storage; Business from USD 500/mo; Enterprise and Mission Critical custom” source
- Deployment first recorded as “Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — Temporal Cloud or self-hosted Temporal server” source
Related systems
References (17)
- Baseten integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists Baseten model-provider integration (OpenAI Agents SDK agents on Baseten-served models). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Bedrock AgentCore (AWS) integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists Serverless Workers on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Braintrust integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists Braintrust agent-observability integration (Go, Python, TypeScript). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Fireworks AI integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists Fireworks AI model-provider integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists Google ADK agents as durable Temporal Workflows (Python, Go, TypeScript). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Google Gemini 3 family integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists Google GenAI integration: call Gemini models durably from Workflows. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langfuse integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists Langfuse agent-observability integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangGraph (orchestration) integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists LangGraph graphs as durable Temporal Workflows. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangSmith integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists LangSmith tracing integration (Python, TypeScript). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mastra integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists Mastra agent-framework integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Model Context Protocol (MCP spec) integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists MCP integration: call MCP tools, prompts and resources as durable Activities. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenAI Agents SDK integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists OpenAI Agents SDK integration (Python, TypeScript). (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenRouter integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists OpenRouter model-gateway integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pydantic-AI integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists Pydantic AI durable-execution integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Strands Agents (AWS) integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists Strands Agents integration (Python, TypeScript). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Together AI integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists Together AI model-provider integration. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Vercel AI SDK integrates with — Temporal integrations catalog lists AI SDK by Vercel (TypeScript agent-framework integration). (verified 2026-10-29)
Referenced by (8)
- Braintrust integrates with — Braintrust docs have a Temporal integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Comet ML integrates with — Comet's Opik docs have a Temporal integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Google Agent Development Kit (ADK) integrates with — ADK integrations catalog has a "Temporal plugin for ADK" page (Resilient, scalable agents, long-running agents and tools, human approvals, and safe versioning). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Keycard integrates with — Keycard docs have a Temporal SDK page (per-execution tokens for Temporal Python workers). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Laminar integrates with — Laminar integrations docs have a Temporal observability page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langfuse integrates with — Langfuse's integrations directory has a Temporal integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangSmith integrates with — LangSmith docs have a tracing integration page for Temporal. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pydantic-AI integrates with — Pydantic AI docs have a Temporal durable execution integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)