# Inngest vs Temporal (slim)

> Temporal has a score of 77.2 (BB) against Inngest's 66.3 (B). Both do hitl approve. The largest gap is reliability, 28 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Temporal has a score of 77.2 (BB) against Inngest's 66.3 (B). Both do hitl approve. The largest gap is reliability, 28 points.

- Inngest: B 66.3, rank #160 of 452 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/inngest.min.md
- Temporal: BB 77.2, rank #21 of 452 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/temporal.min.md
- Pick Inngest for payments & pricing (+20). Pick Temporal for reliability (+28), agent ergonomics (+9), security & auth (+26), transparency & trust (+14).

| Category | Inngest | Temporal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 57 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 89 | 91 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 76 | 85 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 60 | 86 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 88 | 90 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 70 |