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Temporal vs Stytch

Durable execution platform for mission-critical workflows
vs. Authentication platform for B2C and B2B

Temporal website ↗Stytch 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 ↗

Stytch

Free
10,000 MAU. Unlimited orgs. 5 SSO/SCIM connections. 1,000 M2M tokens. 10,000 fraud fingerprints. Full auth suite.
Free
Pay as you go
Usage-based after free allowances. Volume discounts for high MAU.
$0 base (usage-based)
Enterprise
Custom. 99.99% SLA, private Slack, migration assistance, HIPAA/BAA.
Custom
Stytch website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing oss on Temporal vs free on Stytch.

MetricTemporalStytch
fraud fingerprints included—10000 fingerprints/month
m2m tokens included—1000 tokens
mau included—10000 users/month
organizations—unlimited orgs
sso connections included—5 conns

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.

Stytch · 15 features

  • B2B Auth — Multi-tenant auth: organizations, roles, JIT provisioning, enterprise SSO, SCIM.
  • B2C Auth — Consumer auth: passwordless (magic links, OTP), passwords, OAuth, passkeys, WebA…
  • Device Fingerprinting — Fingerprint devices at signup/login. Block bots, credential stuffing, and ATO at…
  • Device-Fingerprint Risk API — Real-time risk scoring API usable even without full auth.
  • Enterprise SSO (OIDC) — OIDC SSO per organization.
  • Enterprise SSO (SAML) — SAML 2.0 SSO per organization. Self-serve admin portal.
  • JIT Provisioning — Auto-create users in an org on first SSO sign-in.
  • Machine-to-Machine — Client-credentials OAuth for service-to-service.
  • OAuth / Social — Google, Apple, Microsoft, GitHub, Slack, Discord, Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Bi…
  • Organizations — Multi-tenant primitive with policies per org.
  • Passkeys (WebAuthn) — FIDO2 passkey enrollment and authentication.
  • Passwordless — Magic links (email) + OTP (email/SMS/WhatsApp) + embeddable magic links.
  • RBAC — Roles and permissions per organization (B2B).
  • SCIM Provisioning — Directory user/group provisioning from Okta, Azure, Google Workspace.
  • Sessions — JWT or opaque session tokens. Configurable lifetime.

Developer interfaces

KindTemporalStytch
CLItemporal CLI—
SDKTemporal Go SDK, temporalio (Python), @temporalio (TypeScript), Temporal Java SDK, Temporal .NET SDK, Temporal PHP SDKAndroid SDK, Go backend SDK, iOS SDK, Java backend SDK, JavaScript SDK, Next.js SDK, Node backend SDK, Python backend SDK, React SDK, Ruby backend SDK
REST—B2B API, B2C API
OTHERTemporal gRPC API, Temporal Web UI—
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