Write code as if failure doesn’t exist
Distributed systems break, APIs fail, networks flake, and services crash. That’s not your problem anymore. Managing reliability shouldn’t mean constant firefighting.
Temporal Workflows automatically capture state at every step, and in the event of failure, can pick up exactly where they left off.
No lost progress, no orphaned processes, and no manual recovery required.
You have to see it to believe it
Temporal doesn’t work like anything you’ve used before. Watch how we guarantee the Durable Execution of your code in the face of any failure, or check out this fun code sample.
@workflow.defn
class SleepForDaysWorkflow:
# Send an email every 30 days
@workflow.run
async def run(self) -> None:
# ...
while True:
# Activities have built-in support for timeouts and retries!
await workflow.execute_activity(
send_email,
start_to_close_timeout=timedelta(seconds=10),
)
# Sleep for 30 days (yes, really)!
await workflow.sleep(timedelta(days=30))How It Works
Create failproof apps using our 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.
Build Workflows that handle failures for you
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.
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.
Write Activities to handle and retry failure-prone logic
APIs fail, networks time out, and users abandon sessions.
Temporal treats these interactions as Activities: functions that retry automatically and recover seamlessly.
Replace your brittle state machines
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.
Host the Temporal Service yourself as part of the open-source project, or let us host it for you with Temporal Cloud.
Get full visibility into your running code
No more wasting time sifting through logs. Get visibility into the exact state of each of your Workflow executions.
Common patterns and use cases
Artificial Intelligence & Large Language Models
From model training to data prep, Temporal keeps your AI workflows resilient and repeatable.
Humans-in-the-Loop
No more duct-taping Workflows around human input: just clean, durable orchestration.
Compensating Patterns (Saga)
Make Saga easy: what if Saga was simply a try...catch?
Long-running Workflows
Run Workflows for days, weeks, or months without losing progress or adding complexity.
Order Fulfillment
One bad service shouldn’t break the cart. Temporal keeps the order moving.
Durable Ledgers
Track transactions with code you can trust down to the last cent.
CI/CD
Deploy with confidence. Temporal gives you clean retries, rollbacks, and visibility.
Customer Acquisition
Route leads, onboard users, and engage customers without dropped steps or hacks.
DAG
Don’t glue together DAGs with bash and hope. Temporal does it right.
Global enterprises and top startups choose Temporal
NVIDIA manages their GPU fleet across clouds with Temporal
Salesforce migrated their monolith to Temporal
Twilio left their homegrown systems for Temporal Cloud
Descript improved their AI uptime with Temporal
One of the most interesting pieces of tech I've seen in years… Temporal does to backend and infra, what React did to frontend… the surface exposed to the developer is a beautiful "render()" function to organize your backend workflows.
Guillermo Rauch
Founder & CEO, Vercel
Temporal's technology satisfied all of these requirements out of the box and allowed our developers to focus on business logic.
Without Temporal's technology, we would've spent a significant amount of time rebuilding Temporal and would've very likely done a worse job.
Mitchell Hashimoto
Co-founder, Hashicorp
Committed to the open-source community
100% open-source
MIT-licensed, built in the open, and backed by a thriving developer community.
As Reliable as Gravity
Fully battle tested, 9 years in production
Temporal was built with over 20 years of development from the minds behind AWS SQS, AWS SWF, Azure Durable functions, and the Cadence project that powers Uber.
Deploy it your way
One platform, two great hosting paths
Temporal is an open-source project that you are free to use and host in your own environment. You can also let us host the Temporal Service for you with Temporal Cloud. Either way, we never see your code.
Build invincible applications
It sounds like magic, we promise it not.