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24 alternatives to Temporal Cloud

OpenAI and Temporal have teamed up to add Durable Execution to agents built using OpenAI’s Agents SDK, and today we released the new integration in Public Preview.

Temporal Cloud is a platform for managing failures in software applications. It handles complexity around network outages, flaky endpoints, and long-running processes so workflows continue reliably without requiring… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Temporal Cloud launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Build production-ready agents, fast.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Steve from Temporal here. Temporal is an MIT open source project for reliable execution at scale. I adapted+extended some of OpenAI's Agents SDK samples to integrate with Temporal. These demo agents can survive process crashes, scale to millions of executions in parallel and have easy-to-implement human interactivity. Just add a couple of Python decorators to your OpenAI agent code, run Temporal workers and you're ready to go. Check the video I did with OpenAI showing this in action (it's linked in the repo). OpenAI actually use us for ChatGPT Images and also their Codex code writing agent…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build, manage & run useful autonomous AI agents on cloud

    2023 · superagi.com · its alternatives →

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    Midday▲969

    I’ve been working on automating bookkeeping tasks, and one big pain point was manually reconciling receipts with bank transactions. We built a system that runs in the background, parses receipts (including Gmail), suggests matches, and learns from confirmations to auto-match over time. It's built into Midday and fully open-source. Let me know if you have any questions!

    2024 · midday.ai · its alternatives →

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    Opengeni▲341

    Ship AI agents within minutes. Infrastructure for Agents

    Sep 2026 · opengeni.ai · its alternatives →

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    Evoke▲317

    Run open source AI models on the cloud with our APIs

    2023 · evoke-app.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenTelemetry-native observability for agents and LLMs

    Aug 2026 · openobserve.ai · its alternatives →

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    Atomic▲140

    Hey HN, I’ve been building Atom (https://github.com/rush86999/atom), an open-source, self-hosted AI automation platform. I built this because while tools like OpenClaw are excellent for one-off scripts and personal tasks, I found them difficult to use for complex business workflows (e.g., managing invoices or SaaS ops). The main issue was State Blindness: the agent would fire a command and assume it worked, without "seeing" if the UI or state actually updated. I just shipped a new architecture to solve this called Canvas AI Accessibility. The Technical Concept: Instead of…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenAgents - The collaboration OS for AI agents. Contribute to openagents-org/openagents development by creating an account on GitHub.

    Apr 2026 · open-agents.dev · its alternatives →

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    Complete open-source monitoring and observability platform. - OneUptime/oneuptime

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A smarter workflow for Kubernetes & Cloud Native apps

    2021 · cto.ai · its alternatives →

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    Cloudanix▲133

    Cloud security made easy

    2021 · cloudanix.com · its alternatives →

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    Agen▲138

    AI changed the way we code, but we're still using the old processes, and we've become the bottleneck, the AI is waiting for us - to reply, to open our laptops, to review the code, and so on. We're building the future of AI software development. The agents are autonomous, they run in sandboxes, automatically fix the pipelines, and deliver you the final, working code. You can use live preview to see the changes they made. Working across multiple repositories, all within the same session. This is the future - you don't need an IDE, and you don't have to run anything locally.

    Mar 2026 · agenhq.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source runtime for durable AI agents

    May 2026 · orkes.io · its alternatives →

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    Velane▲95

    n8n is built for humans dragging nodes on a canvas. That breaks down at B2B scale (embedding in a product, multi-tenant scalability, etc). n8n does have an MCP server so agents can create workflows too, but it outputs raw JSON. That's fine for n8n's engine, but painful for a coding agent (or a human reviewing its output) to read, write, diff, or debug. I'm building an alternative where workflows are authored by a coding agent in [a more dev-legible format] instead of JSON blobs, and execute it at scale.

    Jul 2026 · velane.sh · its alternatives →

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    A browser-based serverless platform that is open-source

    2021 · moderncloud.io · its alternatives →

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    Simple serverless cloud for developers

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Cognitorafree▲86

    Built a multi-agent research system with OpenAI Agents SDK where specialized AI agents collaborate autonomously: Master Orchestrator → Data Analyst → Statistician → Report Writer Each agent has specific expertise. The orchestrator delegates tasks. All agents can execute code securely to solve problems. Example workflow: "Analyze e-commerce data" - Data Analyst: writes Python to load/clean data, spots trends - Statistician: performs significance tests, calculates growth rates - Report Writer: synthesizes findings into executive summary This demonstrates OpenAI Agents SDK's handoff system…

    2025 · cognitora.dev · its alternatives →

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    Open-source, no more mid-deployment IaC failures

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A secure cloud management platform for automation, orchestration, cost and usage monitoring of public and private clouds, hypervisors and container hosts. Provides multi-cloud RBAC. Enables self service provisioning. Cost analytics and cloud spending optimization

    2013 · mist.io · its alternatives →

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    A time-related SaaS tool with less interface for better flow

    2022 · its alternatives →

  23. 23AT

    I recently built a small open-source tool to benchmark different LLM API endpoints — including OpenAI, Claude, and self-hosted models (like llama.cpp). It runs a configurable number of test requests and reports two key metrics: • First-token latency (ms): How long it takes for the first token to appear • Output speed (tokens/sec): Overall output fluency Demo: https://llmapitest.com/ Code: https://github.com/qjr87/llm-api-test The goal is to provide a simple, visual, and reproducible way to evaluate performance across different LLM providers, including…

    2025 · llmapitest.com · its alternatives →

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