Temporal gives new accounts a $1,000 one-time signup credit rather than an ongoing free tier. The free plan includes Get started for free with $1,000 in credits, Temporal Cloud trial includes $1,000 in credits, and Startup Program offers $6,000 in free Temporal Cloud credits for startups under $30M in funding.
About
Temporal is a durable execution platform for running application workflows that preserve state across failures. Developers define business logic as workflows and activities using Temporal SDKs, while the Temporal Service persists workflow history, retries failed activities, and resumes execution from the last known state.
The platform is available as Temporal Cloud or as a self-hosted open-source service. The cloud offering includes plan-based limits for actions, active storage, and retained storage, plus support and governance features such as SLA options, multi-cloud and multi-region support, user roles, service accounts, audit logging, SAML SSO, and SCIM on higher plans.
- 1M actions on Essentials
- 1 GB active storage
- 40 GB retained storage
- 2.5M actions on Business
- 10M actions on Enterprise
- 99.9% SLA option
- Multi-cloud and multi-region support
- Open-source self-hosted option
Free Tier Value
This free offer is a one-time $1,000 credit, so it’s best treated as exploration budget rather than a recurring monthly allowance. The cheapest paid plan starts at $100/month, and the included Actions and storage make the free experience fairly complete within its cap, but the credit eventually runs out and a credit card is required to sign up.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Get started for free with $1,000 in credits.
- Temporal Cloud trial includes $1,000 in credits.
- Startup Program offers $6,000 in free Temporal Cloud credits for startups under $30M in funding.
See Temporal pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Essentials
- Actions
- 1M
- Active Storage
- 1 GB
- Retained Storage
- 40 GB
- For basic workflows
- Cloud platform
- 99.9% SLA, 99.99% HA options
- Multi-Cloud & Multi-Region
- User Roles
- Service Accounts & API Keys
- Audit Logging
- Workflow Management
Business
- Actions
- 2.5M
- Active Storage
- 2.5 GB
- Retained Storage
- 100 GB
- For teams scaling Temporal
- Cloud platform
- Everything in Essentials
- SAML SSO included
- SCIM add-on
- Business support
- Workflow troubleshooting
- SDK implementation
Enterprise
- Actions
- 10M
- Active Storage
- 10 GB
- Retained Storage
- 400 GB
- For enterprise and Mission Critical
- Cloud platform
- Everything in Business
- SAML SSO included
- SCIM included
- Enterprise support
- 24/7, 30 minute P0
- Technical onboarding
Mission Critical
- For more support
- Dedicated Platform Architect add-on
Pricing extracted from Temporal's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Temporal free forever?
No. Temporal gives new accounts a one-time signup credit of about $1,000, spent at normal usage rates, then the account moves to pay-as-you-go.
What happens when you exceed Temporal's free tier?
Once the signup credit runs out the account moves to pay-as-you-go pricing. Temporal's cheapest published paid plan is Essentials at $100 / month.
What is Temporal's free tier worth?
Temporal's free tier is worth about $1,000 in signup credit. That maps to an FTV score of 67/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
