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Temporal vs Loops

Durable execution platform for mission-critical workflows
vs. Email marketing for SaaS — loops, transactional, campaigns in one

Temporal website ↗Loops 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 ↗

Loops

Free
1,000 subscribed contacts. 4,000 sends/month. All features. Loops footer on emails.
Free
Paid — 1.5k
1,500 contacts. Unlimited sends. No footer.
$15/mo
Paid — 5k
5,000 contacts. Unlimited sends.
$49/mo
Paid — 10k
10,000 contacts.
$99/mo
Paid — 25k
25,000 contacts.
$199/mo
Paid — 50k
50,000 contacts.
$349/mo
Custom
>100k contacts — contact sales.
Custom
Loops website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing oss on Temporal vs free on Loops.

MetricTemporalLoops
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

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.

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.

Developer interfaces

KindTemporalLoops
CLItemporal CLI—
SDKTemporal Go SDK, temporalio (Python), @temporalio (TypeScript), Temporal Java SDK, Temporal .NET SDK, Temporal PHP SDK@loops/loops, loops-py
REST—Loops REST API
OTHERTemporal gRPC API, Temporal Web UIWebhooks
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