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4 self-hosted Temporal Cloud alternatives

Managed cloud offering of the Temporal workflow orchestration engine. Runs durable, fault-tolerant workflows for microservices and long-running business processes, providing retries, timers and distributed state without self-hosted infrastructure.

Alternatives to Temporal Cloud

Declarative, API-first orchestration platform for scheduled and event-driven workflows with a plugin ecosystem, UI editor, CI/CD and Terraform integration.

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27.9k stars2.9k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Open-source runbook automation platform to schedule jobs, orchestrate workflows, and provide controlled self-service operations via web UI and API.

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6.3k stars987 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Developer-first platform for durable workflow automation and orchestration, with code-based workflows, triggers, integrations, and API-first execution.

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1.1k stars46 forksApache-2.0last commit Slowing down

On-premises IT task scheduler to centralize, schedule, and run scripts and commands across servers via SSH/WinRM, with workflows, logs, notifications, and an API.

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What replacing Temporal Cloud actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 2 of 4 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

Browse everything in Automation & Workflow Builders (Low-code).

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