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Durable execution platform for AI agents and workflows — used by Netflix, Snap, and Stripe for reliability-critical systems.
Durable execution platform for AI agents and workflows — used by Netflix, Snap, and Stripe for reliability-critical systems.
Temporal is the durable-execution platform that powers workflows at Netflix, Snap, Stripe, Datadog, and Coinbase — and in 2026 it's aggressively expanding into AI agents. You write Workflows and Activities in Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, .NET, or PHP; Temporal transparently persists every step and guarantees exactly-once execution semantics even if servers crash, networks partition, or an LLM call takes an hour. For AI agents that's a step-change: you can express a multi-hop deep research agent, a code-generation-and-verification loop, or a long human-in-the-loop workflow as ordinary code, and Temporal handles the retries, state, timers, and resumption. The company has released dedicated primitives for agentic AI — including the Temporal Agent SDK and integrations with OpenAI Agents, LangGraph, Mastra, and the Anthropic SDK — so idiomatic agent code becomes durable by default. Deployment options are Temporal Cloud (managed SaaS with global regions), self-hosted open source (Apache 2.0), and enterprise Temporal Cloud tiers with dedicated infrastructure. The Web UI shows every workflow execution with inputs, outputs, and pending timers, which makes debugging a stalled agent an order of magnitude easier than in ad-hoc queues.
Free (Apache 2.0)
$1,000 in credits
From $100/month + usage
From $500/month + usage
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