Loops vs Temporal

Loops

Temporal

Loops · 12 features

• API Keys — Scoped keys for testing vs production.
• Audiences (Segments) — Filter contacts by properties + event behavior.
• Campaign Analytics — Open/click/unsubscribe rates, heatmaps, A/B significance.
• Campaigns — One-off broadcasts to audience segments. Schedule + A/B test subject.
• Contacts — Contact records with custom properties (strings, numbers, booleans, dates).
• Email Editor — Visual block-based + Markdown + HTML modes.
• Events — Send events to trigger loops/journeys or filter audiences.
• Loops (Automations) — Event-triggered automation flows with delays + conditions.
• Mailing Lists — Opt-in lists with subscribe/unsubscribe preferences per list.
• Template Library — Pre-built templates for SaaS use cases (onboarding, digest, launch).
• Transactional API — Send transactional emails (receipts, password resets) via /transactional endpoin…
• Webhooks — Subscribe to contact/event changes.

Temporal · 16 features

• Activities — Retryable units of work.
• Activity Retries — Declarative retry policies.
• Child Workflows — Nested workflow composition.
• Continue-As-New — Close + restart workflow to prune history.
• Nexus (cross-namespace) — Call workflows across namespaces/teams.
• Queries — Synchronous read of workflow state.
• Saga / Compensations — Rollback pattern via compensating activities.
• Schedules — Cron-like recurring workflows.
• Self-Host — Deploy cluster on your infra.
• Signals — Async messages into a running workflow.
• Timers — Durable sleeps — hours, days, months.
• Update — Synchronous RPC into workflow with validation.
• Visibility + Search Attrs — Query workflow state via Elasticsearch/native store.
• Web UI — Inspect workflow history, events, stack.
• Workflows — Durable, replayable, long-running functions.
• Workflow Versioning — Patch workflow code without breaking in-flight runs.