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Apache Airflow vs Temporal: catalog facts
Apache Airflow	Temporal
Free Free and open source, developed as an Apache Software Foundation project.	Freemium The open-source server is free to self-host; Temporal Cloud is a paid managed service.
Web, Self-hosted	Windows, macOS, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line
Workflows are plain Python, so tasks can be generated dynamically Web UI with status and logs for every task run	Workflows survive crashes and resume without manual recovery SDKs for several mainstream programming languages
Requires Python knowledge to define workflows You run and maintain the scheduler, workers and web server yourself	Requires designing code around Temporal's workflow model Running the server in production adds operational work
Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted, Hosted service
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: MIT
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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