The deciding difference is operational: Temporal can run on infrastructure you control, Cloudflare Workers cannot. If that constraint is real for you, it settles the choice before anything else is considered.
Edge runtime with Durable Objects for long-lived, stateful agent sessions.
Durable execution — the run survives a crash, a deploy and a week of waiting.
| Cloudflare Workers | Temporal | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence | Proprietary | Open source |
| Pricing | freemium | freemium |
| Self-hostable | No | Yes |
| Languages | TypeScript | TypeScript, Python |
| Install | npm i -g wrangler | — |
| Keys required | None | None |
The deciding difference is operational: Temporal can run on infrastructure you control, Cloudflare Workers cannot. If that constraint is real for you, it settles the choice before anything else is considered. Cloudflare Workers: Edge runtime with Durable Objects for long-lived, stateful agent sessions. Temporal: Durable execution — the run survives a crash, a deploy and a week of waiting.
Cloudflare Workers is a hosted service only. Temporal can run on your own infrastructure.
Cloudflare Workers is proprietary (freemium). Temporal is open source (freemium).
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