Comment by quacker
2 days ago
Honest question: Can you use Temporal Cloud? Have you evaluated Temporal Cloud pricing?
Ballparking: 200 events/workflow, 200 workflows/per day and assuming 1 event = 1 cloud action[1], that is 1.2M or so actions per month. The $100/month plan includes 1M actions each month, and even the pay-as-you pricing when you exceed that is $50 per 1M actions[2].
Temporal Cloud seems extremely cheap for your use case, even if I'm off by a factor of 10. Is there a catch? You still need infra to run your Temporal workers, and I assume there are storage and other costs, but I assume action usage is the majority of it.
1. Not sure exactly what constitutes an "Action". At a glance, seems like most events have a corresponding action(?) and a subset of those actions are actually billable(?)
2. https://docs.temporal.io/cloud/pricing#payg-action-pricing
I was not clear; I did not mean not 200 a day, it's 10s of thousands of concurrently running workflows, sometimes into the hundreds of thousands, each with 200 events. We run many hundreds of thousands of these a day.
Temporal was a bad fit for us, and we regret it deeply.
Ah. So multiple billion actions per month, and probably multiple million dollars per year on their cloud, if they can even support that load (plus, the vendor lock in and etc). Makes sense.
what would you use instead?