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Temporal vs Appwrite

Durable execution platform for mission-critical workflows
vs. Open-source BaaS for building full-stack apps

Temporal website ↗Appwrite website ↗

Pricing tiers

Temporal

Self-Hosted (OSS)
Free forever. MIT license. Run the Temporal cluster yourself on K8s/Docker.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud (usage-based)
Temporal Cloud. Pay per action ($25 per 1M actions base). Active user + storage also billed.
$0 base (usage-based)
Business Plan
Starts ~$100/mo commit. Multi-region, SSO, priority support.
Custom
Enterprise
Custom. HIPAA, PCI, dedicated clusters, enterprise SLA.
Custom
Temporal website ↗

Appwrite

Self-Hosted
Run Appwrite on your own infrastructure. MIT licensed — no usage limits.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud Free
Managed cloud. Hard caps: 1 team member, 1 database per project.
Free
Cloud Pro
From $15/member/month. 2 TB bandwidth, 150 GB storage, 200k MAU, 3.5M executions, unlimited databases + team members.
$15/mo
Cloud Scale
$599/month flat for the org. Higher included usage + advanced security. Deprecated in some regions — check.
$599/mo
Enterprise
Custom pricing. SOC 2, HIPAA (on request), dedicated infra, SLAs.
Custom
Appwrite website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing oss on Temporal vs free on Appwrite.

MetricTemporalAppwrite
bandwidth gb month—5 GB/month
databases per project—1 databases
function duration s—30 seconds
function executions—750000 exec/month
mau—75000 users/month
storage gb—2 GB
team members—1 members

Features

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.

Appwrite · 13 features

  • Account (Auth) — User authentication: email/password, magic URLs, phone OTP, anonymous, 30+ OAuth…
  • Avatars — Generated avatars, country flags, credit-card icons, QR codes, favicons.
  • Databases — NoSQL collections with attribute types, indexes, permissions per document/collec…
  • Events System — Unified event bus: subscribe in Functions, Webhooks, Realtime using event string…
  • Functions — Serverless functions in 13+ runtimes (Node, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, Dart, Deno, S…
  • Messaging — Multi-channel messaging: Push (FCM/APNs), SMS (Twilio/Vonage/Msg91), Email (Mail…
  • Migrations — Import from Firebase, Supabase, NHost, or another Appwrite project.
  • Permissions (ACLs) — Per-document / per-collection ACLs: Role.user(), Role.team(), Role.any(), Role.g…
  • Realtime — WebSocket subscriptions to events: database changes, auth, storage, function exe…
  • Sites — Deploy static and SSR frameworks (Next, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Astro, Remix) direct fr…
  • Storage — File buckets with access control, auto-transforms (image preview), antivirus, en…
  • Teams — Group users with shared access + roles. Used for row-level permissions on resour…
  • Webhooks — HTTP callbacks on any Appwrite event. Signed with x-appwrite-webhook-signature.

Developer interfaces

KindTemporalAppwrite
CLItemporal CLIAppwrite CLI
SDKTemporal Go SDK, temporalio (Python), @temporalio (TypeScript), Temporal Java SDK, Temporal .NET SDK, Temporal PHP SDKAndroid SDK (Kotlin), Apple SDK (Swift), Dart Server SDK, Deno SDK, Flutter SDK, Kotlin Server SDK, .NET Server SDK, Node.js Server SDK, PHP Server SDK, Python Server SDK, React Native SDK, Ruby Server SDK, Swift Server SDK, Web SDK (browser)
REST—REST API
GRAPHQL—GraphQL API
MCP—Appwrite MCP Server
OTHERTemporal gRPC API, Temporal Web UIRealtime WebSocket
Staxly is an independent catalog of developer platforms. Outbound links to Temporal and Appwrite are plain references to their official websites. Pricing is verified against vendor pages at publication time — reconfirm before buying.

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