Temporal pricing
How Temporal charges, what to know before you commit, and what you'd pay at your usage — next to what the alternatives would cost for the same thing.
How it charges
Checked 2026-10-03 on temporal.io ↗ · USD, list pricesTemporal Cloud bills $50 per million actions with no base fee on the Developer plan, plus a support fee of 10% of usage.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Side project
- $2.75/mo Developer (pay as you go)
- Growing
- $5.50/mo Developer (pay as you go)
- Scaling
- $275/mo Developer (pay as you go)
What the model leaves out
Assumes one action per run or step: a simple workflow that starts and calls two activities with no retries, timers or signals ≈ 3 actions; heartbeats, retries and timers add more, so real usage is usually higher. Rate = $50 per million actions × 1.10 for the 10% Developer support fee = $0.055 per thousand. The docs say the Developer plan stays at $50 per million at any volume (the pricing page mentions self-service discounts down to $25 per million at higher volume, which the docs attach to Business and above). Business ($500/month minimum, 2.5M actions included, graduated rates from $50 to $25 per million) is left out — at solo volumes it costs more than Developer. Storage is not modelled. compute_hours is not charged (your own workers). New accounts get $150 of credits for 90 days, not modelled.
- Actions include more than workflow and activity starts: activity retries and heartbeats, timers (including implicit timeouts), signals, queries and schedule triggers are each billed.
- Storage is billed separately: $0.042 per GB-hour of active storage and $0.00105 per GB-hour of retained storage.
- The Developer plan's support fee is 10% of usage spend; Business is the greater of $500 a month or 10% of usage.
- You run your own workers, so the compute your workflows use is paid to your own host, not Temporal.
| Plan | Monthly fee | Job runs or steps per month |
|---|---|---|
| Developer (pay as you go) | None | $0.055 per 1,000 runs |
What you'd pay
Usage only some alternatives charge for
Developer (pay as you go)100k runs × $0.055 per 1,000 runs$5.50/mo
Cost as you grow
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