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Temporal

Open-source workflow software for developers building applications that must recover from failures.

Overview

Temporal runs business logic as durable workflows. It preserves application state so work can resume after a failure, including processes that run for days, weeks, or months. You can host the open-source project in your own environment or use Temporal Cloud. Native SDKs let you write business logic in the programming languages you already use.

Updated Nov 6, 2026

11 things

What Temporal has

For developers

Source code is publicly available for anyone to inspect, modify, or self-host. One of 4 Software Development Platforms tools that are open source.
Run the software on your own servers instead of the vendor's cloud. One of 11 Software Development Platforms tools you can self-host.
A command-line interface that lets you run the tool from a terminal or scripts. One of 18 Software Development Platforms tools with CLI.
A toolkit that lets developers build on the product using their preferred programming language.

Hosting and storage

Vendor-provided online infrastructure for deploying and running software. One of 6 Software Development Platforms tools with cloud hosting.
A service that runs the software on servers provided and maintained by a hosting provider.
A vendor-operated service that runs and maintains software on its own infrastructure. One of 4 Software Development Platforms tools with managed hosting.

Support

Help from the vendor at any hour, every day of the week. One of 8 Software Development Platforms tools with 24/7 support.

Learning

A structured online course that teaches a subject through lessons.

Extras

An online space where users can connect, share tips, and help each other. One of 19 Software Development Platforms tools with community.
An educational resource that explains a topic and helps readers build their knowledge. One of 8 Software Development Platforms tools with guide.

16 features

Key Features

Workflow recovery
Because the full running state of a Workflow is durable and fault tolerant by default, your business logic can be recovered, replayed, or paused at any point.
Workflow state
The Temporal Service persists the state of your application and has built-in retries, task queues, signals, and timers, to make sure your code always picks up where it left off.
Automatic retry
Temporal treats these interactions as Activities: functions that retry automatically and recover seamlessly.
Application state
The Temporal Service persists the state of your application and has built-in retries, task queues, signals, and timers, to make sure your code always picks up where it left off.
Execution visibility
No more wasting time sifting through logs. Get visibility into the exact state of each of your Workflow executions.
Long-running workflows
Run Workflows for days, weeks, or months without losing progress or adding complexity.
Fault tolerance
Temporal delivers new development primitives that help simplify your code and allow you to build more features, faster. And at runtime, it's fault-tolerant and easily scalable so your apps can grow bigger, more reliably.
State capture
Temporal captures the complete state of your functions (variables, threads, blocking calls) so you get the benefits of a state machine, without maintaining complex state machine code.
Retry policies
Temporal allows you to define exponential retry policies for Activities, so you don’t have to write retry logic into your application code. And your retry duration can be as long as needed, even months.
Long-running timers
Set timers to wait for days, weeks, or months, knowing that an outage or server restart during the wait period won’t prevent your workflow from executing.
Workflow schedules
Temporal delivers an ability to schedule a workflow (much like a cron job) and then pause, re-start, and stop them as needed.
Human interactions
Use external sources – including human actions – that interact seamlessly with Workflows.
Local development
Write code in your preferred language locally, then deploy your workflows and activities using the same software delivery mechanisms you have today.
Agentic applications
Build applications the way OpenAI, Lovable, Replit, Cursor, and Retool do with our open-source platform. Add agentic capabilities to any application with your framework of choice.
Failure recovery
Temporal Workflows automatically capture state at every step, and in the event of failure, can pick up exactly where they left off.
Workflow scheduling
Temporal delivers an ability to schedule a workflow (much like a cron job) and then pause, re-start, and stop them as needed.

Pros and cons

Pros

The project is 100% open source under the MIT license.
You can host Temporal in your own environment or let Temporal Cloud host the service.
A free course and getting started guide help you learn and run Temporal on your machine.

Developer features

Native SDKs
Write your business logic in the programming languages you already use with our native SDKs. Your days of writing reconciliation logic or boilerplate code are over.
Code in workflows
Write your business logic as code as a Temporal Workflow. Workflows might involve moving money between bank accounts, processing orders, deploying cloud infrastructure, training an AI model, or something else entirely.
Language SDKs
Temporal allows you to simply code for durable execution, using one or more of our SDKs in Go, Java, Typescript, Python and .NET (and even deploy polyglot workflows).

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5 questions

FAQs

What does Temporal do?

Temporal runs business logic as workflows and captures their state at every step. After a failure, a workflow can continue from where it stopped.

Is Temporal open source?

Yes. Temporal is 100% open source under the MIT license, built in the open, and backed by a developer community.

Can I self-host Temporal?

Yes. You can use and host the open-source project in your own environment. Temporal Cloud is also available as a hosted service.

Does Temporal have a free course?

Yes. Temporal 101 is a free course with step-by-step tutorials for practicing application development.

Which integrations does Temporal support?

Temporal integrates with Google ADK and OpenAI Agents SDK, running model and tool calls as durable Activities.

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11 things

What Temporal has

For developers

Source code is publicly available for anyone to inspect, modify, or self-host. One of 4 Software Development Platforms tools that are open source.
Run the software on your own servers instead of the vendor's cloud. One of 11 Software Development Platforms tools you can self-host.
A command-line interface that lets you run the tool from a terminal or scripts. One of 18 Software Development Platforms tools with CLI.
A toolkit that lets developers build on the product using their preferred programming language.

Hosting and storage

Vendor-provided online infrastructure for deploying and running software. One of 6 Software Development Platforms tools with cloud hosting.
A service that runs the software on servers provided and maintained by a hosting provider.
A vendor-operated service that runs and maintains software on its own infrastructure. One of 4 Software Development Platforms tools with managed hosting.

Support

Help from the vendor at any hour, every day of the week. One of 8 Software Development Platforms tools with 24/7 support.

Learning

A structured online course that teaches a subject through lessons.

Extras

An online space where users can connect, share tips, and help each other. One of 19 Software Development Platforms tools with community.
An educational resource that explains a topic and helps readers build their knowledge. One of 8 Software Development Platforms tools with guide.

16 features

Key Features

Workflow recovery
Because the full running state of a Workflow is durable and fault tolerant by default, your business logic can be recovered, replayed, or paused at any point.
Workflow state
The Temporal Service persists the state of your application and has built-in retries, task queues, signals, and timers, to make sure your code always picks up where it left off.
Automatic retry
Temporal treats these interactions as Activities: functions that retry automatically and recover seamlessly.
Application state
The Temporal Service persists the state of your application and has built-in retries, task queues, signals, and timers, to make sure your code always picks up where it left off.
Execution visibility
No more wasting time sifting through logs. Get visibility into the exact state of each of your Workflow executions.
Long-running workflows
Run Workflows for days, weeks, or months without losing progress or adding complexity.
Fault tolerance
Temporal delivers new development primitives that help simplify your code and allow you to build more features, faster. And at runtime, it's fault-tolerant and easily scalable so your apps can grow bigger, more reliably.
State capture
Temporal captures the complete state of your functions (variables, threads, blocking calls) so you get the benefits of a state machine, without maintaining complex state machine code.
Retry policies
Temporal allows you to define exponential retry policies for Activities, so you don’t have to write retry logic into your application code. And your retry duration can be as long as needed, even months.
Long-running timers
Set timers to wait for days, weeks, or months, knowing that an outage or server restart during the wait period won’t prevent your workflow from executing.
Workflow schedules
Temporal delivers an ability to schedule a workflow (much like a cron job) and then pause, re-start, and stop them as needed.
Human interactions
Use external sources – including human actions – that interact seamlessly with Workflows.
Local development
Write code in your preferred language locally, then deploy your workflows and activities using the same software delivery mechanisms you have today.
Agentic applications
Build applications the way OpenAI, Lovable, Replit, Cursor, and Retool do with our open-source platform. Add agentic capabilities to any application with your framework of choice.
Failure recovery
Temporal Workflows automatically capture state at every step, and in the event of failure, can pick up exactly where they left off.
Workflow scheduling
Temporal delivers an ability to schedule a workflow (much like a cron job) and then pause, re-start, and stop them as needed.

Pros and cons

Pros

The project is 100% open source under the MIT license.
You can host Temporal in your own environment or let Temporal Cloud host the service.
A free course and getting started guide help you learn and run Temporal on your machine.

Developer features

Native SDKs
Write your business logic in the programming languages you already use with our native SDKs. Your days of writing reconciliation logic or boilerplate code are over.
Code in workflows
Write your business logic as code as a Temporal Workflow. Workflows might involve moving money between bank accounts, processing orders, deploying cloud infrastructure, training an AI model, or something else entirely.
Language SDKs
Temporal allows you to simply code for durable execution, using one or more of our SDKs in Go, Java, Typescript, Python and .NET (and even deploy polyglot workflows).

You?

Be the first to rate Temporal

Your review helps others make better decisions. No account needed. Takes about 10 seconds.

Featured Video

See Temporal at work before you try it.

Watch on YouTube

5 questions

FAQs

What does Temporal do?

Temporal runs business logic as workflows and captures their state at every step. After a failure, a workflow can continue from where it stopped.

Is Temporal open source?

Yes. Temporal is 100% open source under the MIT license, built in the open, and backed by a developer community.

Can I self-host Temporal?

Yes. You can use and host the open-source project in your own environment. Temporal Cloud is also available as a hosted service.

Does Temporal have a free course?

Yes. Temporal 101 is a free course with step-by-step tutorials for practicing application development.

Which integrations does Temporal support?

Temporal integrates with Google ADK and OpenAI Agents SDK, running model and tool calls as durable Activities.

Temporal

Overview

What Temporal has

For developers

Hosting and storage

Support

Learning

Extras

Key Features

Workflow recovery

Workflow state

Automatic retry

Application state

Execution visibility

Long-running workflows

Fault tolerance

State capture

Retry policies

Long-running timers

Workflow schedules

Human interactions

Local development

Agentic applications

Failure recovery

Workflow scheduling

Pros and cons

Pros

Developer features

Native SDKs

Code in workflows

Language SDKs

Be the first to rate Temporal

Featured Video

FAQs

What does Temporal do?

Is Temporal open source?

Can I self-host Temporal?

Does Temporal have a free course?

Which integrations does Temporal support?

What Temporal has

For developers

Hosting and storage

Support

Learning

Extras

Key Features

Workflow recovery

Workflow state

Automatic retry

Application state

Execution visibility

Long-running workflows

Fault tolerance

State capture

Retry policies

Long-running timers

Workflow schedules

Human interactions

Local development

Agentic applications

Failure recovery

Workflow scheduling

Pros and cons

Pros

Developer features

Native SDKs

Code in workflows

Language SDKs

Be the first to rate Temporal

Featured Video

FAQs

What does Temporal do?

Is Temporal open source?

Can I self-host Temporal?

Does Temporal have a free course?

Which integrations does Temporal support?

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