Temporal server
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- trialTemporal
Developer servicesfree tieridentity cardlimit volume-quotaevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
- self-hosted, last resortTemporal server (self-hosted)
Developer servicesverdict qualifies-with-caveatidentity anonymouspayment cardevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-02
Temporal
Developer services- Free allowance
- $150 in free credits for every new Temporal Cloud account, expiring after 90 days; a credit card is required to sign up
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota$150 of credits, expiring after 90 days
- Evidence
- documented20 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03
| Free tier | $150 in free credits for every new Temporal Cloud account, expiring after 90 days; a credit card is required to sign up unit credits; metered on request-count; After the credits are used or 90 days pass, usage is billed with no base monthly fee at $50 per million Actions on pay-as-you-go, plus storage. The open-source Temporal server is free software that the user installs and runs on a rented or free machine. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
On-Demand capacity starts at 500 Actions per second and auto-scales on 7-day usage. |
| Binding | volume-quota The credit expires after 90 days, and a card is taken at sign-up. |
| Identity | card A credit card is required to sign up for Temporal Cloud; the sign-up page offers a work email or Google or Microsoft sign-in, and AWS or GCP marketplace routes. The card is not charged during the first 90 days while credits remain. |
| Egress | not applicable: workers poll Temporal Cloud; no traffic allowance is published |
| Per-object cap | not stated on the pages read |
| Retention | closed workflow histories kept for a configurable retention period, up to 90 days on Temporal Cloud (90 days) |
| Interface | rest, cli Temporal SDK clients and workers reach a Namespace over gRPC at the Namespace endpoint <namespace>.<account>.tmprl.cloud:7233; the Cloud Ops API is a public HTTP API and a gRPC API at saas-api.tmprl.cloud:443, authenticated by an API key; tcld and the temporal CLI cloud extension manage namespaces, users and keys. The vocabulary has no gRPC term. endpoint: saas-api.tmprl.cloud:443 |
| Tooling | the Temporal SDKs (Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, .NET, Ruby, PHP), tcld and the temporal CLI. As a last resort the open-source server, which the user installs and runs on a rented or free machine. |
| Composes with | A card-gated 90-day credit; for durable execution with no card, the hosted Inngest free tier comes first. |
| Reliability | After the credits run out or 90 days pass, usage is billed to the card on file. |
| Evidence note | documented Credits, card requirement, retention and interfaces are read on first-party pages; nothing behind the sign-up was read. |
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Evidence 20
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-30 | temporal.io/pricing.md | new accounts get $150 of credits expiring after 90 days |
| 2026-10-30 | temporal.io/pricing.md | a credit card is required to sign up for Temporal Cloud |
| 2026-10-30 | temporal.io/pricing.md | the card is not charged in the first 90 days while credits remain |
| 2026-10-30 | temporal.io/pricing.md | closed workflow histories are retained up to 90 days |
| 2026-10-30 | temporal.io/pricing.md | pay-as-you-go has no base monthly fee |
| 2026-10-30 | temporal.io/pricing.md | part of the text of Limits, above |
| 2026-10-30 | temporal.io/pricing.md | SDK languages |
| 2026-10-30 | temporal.io/pricing.md | the server is open source and can be self-hosted |
| 2026-10-30 | temporal.io/pricing | pay-as-you-go Actions cost $50 per million |
| 2026-10-30 | temporal.io/get-cloud | the sign-up page offers $150 of credits |
| 2026-10-30 | temporal.io/get-cloud | Google and Microsoft sign-in are offered alongside a work email |
| 2026-10-31 | docs.temporal.io/ops | the Cloud Ops gRPC endpoint |
| 2026-10-31 | docs.temporal.io/ops | the Cloud Ops API is offered over HTTP and gRPC |
| 2026-10-31 | docs.temporal.io/cloud/tcld | tcld manages Temporal Cloud from the command line |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/cloud/connectivity/ip-addresses | Workers and Temporal Clients connect to the Namespace endpoint <namespace>.<account>.tmprl.cloud:7233 |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/ops | the Cloud Ops API is served over gRPC at saas-api.tmprl.cloud:443 |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/develop/python/client/temporal-client | an SDK client connects to Temporal Cloud at the gRPC Namespace endpoint on port 7233 |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/ops | the Cloud Ops API is also served over HTTP at https://saas-api.tmprl.cloud |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/ops | the Cloud Ops API is authenticated by an API key owned by a user or service account |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/cli/cloud | the Temporal CLI Cloud extension adds temporal cloud commands for namespaces, users and API keys |
Temporal server (self-hosted)
Developer services- Free allowance
- Open-source software that the user installs and runs: the full Temporal platform on the user's own infrastructure at no cost from Temporal, started locally with temporal server start-dev; the open-source quickstart needs no credit card
- Verdict
- self-hosted, last resortverdict qualifies-with-caveat: usable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- anonymouscard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented37 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-02checked 2026-11-01 (live); stale on 2026-12-02
| Free tier | Open-source software that the user installs and runs: the full Temporal platform on the user's own infrastructure at no cost from Temporal, started locally with temporal server start-dev; the open-source quickstart needs no credit card unit none; metered on none; Temporal Cloud (dev-services/temporal-cloud) is the hosted offer and comes first. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
The open source Temporal Service has a default limit of 2,000 pending Activities, Child Workflows, Signals or Workflow cancellation requests, which the dynamic configuration overrides. |
| Binding | none The documentation states no quota for the open-source server; the Persistence and Visibility stores and the machines that the user runs bound throughput, and the per-Workflow-Execution limits are defaults in the server. |
| Identity | anonymous No account with Temporal is needed: the open-source quickstart installs the temporal CLI (brew install temporal) and runs temporal server start-dev on the local machine, and a credit card is required only to sign up for Temporal Cloud. |
| Egress | not set by the software: Workers and clients connect to the user's own Temporal Service, so the network terms of the host that runs it apply |
| Per-object cap | Payloads (the Workflow context and each Workflow and Activity argument and return value): Temporal warns at 512 KB and errors at 2 MB; a gRPC message is limited to 4 MB |
| Retention | closed Workflow Execution histories are kept for the Namespace's Retention Period, which is at least 1 day and defaults to 3 days when a Namespace is created with the temporal CLI and no value (3 days) |
| Interface | rest, cli the Frontend Service exposes a gRPC Proto API on port 7233 that the Temporal SDKs use (the vocabulary has no gRPC term); an HTTP API is switched on in the server's static configuration (httpPort, 7243 in the Nexus example) and on the development server with --http-port; the temporal CLI interacts with the running server, and the development server serves the Web UI at port 8233 |
| Tooling | the user installs and runs the Temporal server on a rented or free machine: temporal server start-dev from the temporal CLI (a single binary with no external dependencies), the Docker Compose example (PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch), the Temporal Server and UI Server Go binaries, or the Helm charts on Kubernetes; the Temporal SDKs (Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, .NET, Ruby, PHP) and the temporal CLI. |
| Composes with | Last resort after the hosted durable-execution offers (the hosted Inngest free tier in dev-services/inngest, and Temporal Cloud in dev-services/temporal-cloud): the user's own Workers connect to a Temporal Service that the user installs and keeps running. |
| Reliability | The development server is not intended for production use, skips certain HTTP security checks, and loses Workflow Executions when its process dies unless --db-filename sets a persistent store. A production Temporal Service needs data stores for persistence that the user creates and maintains, has no role-based access control or audit logging out of the box, and its hosts should not be accessible from the public internet; Temporal does not guarantee support for the server. |
| Notes | Self-hosted software and the last resort: the hosted offers come first (dev-services/temporal-cloud, and the hosted Inngest free tier dev-services/inngest). This record is no duplicate of dev-services/temporal-cloud: it is the open-source server that the user installs and runs. |
| Evidence note | documented Install paths, defaults, limits, retention and interfaces are read on first-party documentation pages; the server was not installed or run, and no execution quota for the open-source server is stated on those pages. |
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Evidence 37
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-11-01 | temporal.io/pricing.md | the full Temporal platform runs on the user's own infrastructure at no cost from Temporal |
| 2026-11-01 | temporal.io/pricing.md | the open-source quickstart needs no credit card, while Temporal Cloud needs one |
| 2026-11-01 | temporal.io/pricing.md | the SDK languages of the Temporal platform |
| 2026-11-01 | temporal.io/ | Temporal is an open-source project that the user can host in their own environment |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide | the self-hosted guide covers open source Temporal Service software that the user hosts |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide | the development server is a single binary with no external dependencies |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide | temporal server start-dev starts a complete Temporal Service with the Web UI locally |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/cli/server | start-dev runs a development Temporal Server on the local system |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/cli/server | part of the text of Reliability, above |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/cli/server | the development server skips certain HTTP security checks |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/cli/server | Workflow Executions are lost when the development server dies unless --db-filename is set |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/cli/server | the development server has an HTTP API service whose port is set with --http-port |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/cli/server | the development server serves the Web UI at port 8233 by default |
| 2026-11-01 | github.com/temporalio/temporal | the repository holds the source code of the Temporal server |
| 2026-11-01 | github.com/temporalio/temporal | the quickstart installs the temporal CLI with brew and needs no account step |
| 2026-11-01 | github.com/temporalio/temporal | the temporal CLI interacts with the running Temporal server |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/temporal-service/temporal-server | the Frontend Service exposes a Proto API |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/temporal-service/temporal-server | the Frontend Service handler listens on gRPC port 7233 |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/temporal-service/temporal-server | the minimum Retention Period is 1 day |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/temporal-service/temporal-server | the Retention Period defaults to 3 days when a Namespace is created with the temporal CLI and no value |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide/server-frontend-api-refer | the SDKs for Workers and for starting Workflows use the server's gRPC API |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/production-deployment/self-hosted-guide/nex | the server's HTTP API is enabled in its static configuration |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/production-deployment/self-hosted-guide/nex | the example static configuration sets the frontend httpPort to 7243 |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide/defaults | Payload blobs produce a warning at 512 KB |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide/defaults | Payload blobs produce an error at 2 MB |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide/defaults | part of the text of Limits, above |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide/defaults | a Workflow History errors at 50 MB |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide/defaults | a Workflow History errors after 51,200 Events |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide/defaults | a history over the error limit leads to a terminated Workflow Execution |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide/defaults | the open source Temporal Service has a default limit of 2,000 pending Activities, Child Workflows, Signals or cancellation requests |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide/deployment | the Docker Compose example runs PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch and exposes the gRPC Frontend on port 7233 |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide/deployment | a complete Temporal Server runs as two Go binaries, the core server and the UI server |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide/deployment | Helm charts deploy the Temporal Service on Kubernetes |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide/deployment | Temporal hosts should not be reachable from the public internet |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide/production-checklist | self-hosted Temporal has no role-based access control or audit logging out of the box |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide/production-checklist | the user creates and maintains the hosting infrastructure and the persistence data stores |
| 2026-11-01 | docs.temporal.io/self-hosted-guide/production-checklist | part of the text of Reliability, above |