Both are open source runtime & deploy options with comparable terms, so the choice comes down to which model of the problem you prefer — compare the descriptions below rather than the licence.
Durable execution — the run survives a crash, a deploy and a week of waiting.
Your existing cluster. Nothing new for the platform team to approve.
| Temporal | Kubernetes | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence | Open source | Open source |
| Pricing | freemium | open source |
| Self-hostable | Yes | Yes |
| Languages | TypeScript, Python | Any language |
| Install | — | — |
| Keys required | None | None |
Both are open source runtime & deploy options with comparable terms, so the choice comes down to which model of the problem you prefer — compare the descriptions below rather than the licence. Temporal: Durable execution — the run survives a crash, a deploy and a week of waiting. Kubernetes: Your existing cluster. Nothing new for the platform team to approve.
Temporal can run on your own infrastructure. Kubernetes can run on your own infrastructure.
Temporal is open source (freemium). Kubernetes is open source (open source).
Every page here answers to Accept: text/markdown and returns the same content at roughly a tenth the tokens. No separate site, no toggle — same URL.
curl -s -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://newagent.build/compare/temporal-vs-k8s