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Conductor vs Cadence: catalog facts
Conductor	Cadence
Free Free and open source.	Free Free and open source.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Command line
Durable, fault-tolerant workflow execution Designed for both services and AI agents	Workflows resume from failures using execution history No separate message queue needed
A server platform that takes effort to deploy and operate Aimed at developers, not end users	Running the server and database takes operational effort Aimed at developers, not end users
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: MIT
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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