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Keys are created self-serve in the Developers tab of the Cloud UI with a role (the docs show Full and Admin). Access is self-serve after a browser signup, with no review. A self-hosted server has no authentication on its ingress or admin ports, and the docs expect a reverse proxy in front (https://docs.restate.dev/cloud/getting-started, https://docs.restate.dev/server/security).", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free $0 with 100,000 durable actions a month, 1 GB of storage and 1-day history, no card, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. Starter $75 a month with 5 million actions, Business $300 with 20 million, Premium $1,000 with 50 million, Enterprise on request. Extra actions cost $25 per million on Starter and Business and $15 on Premium. One action is an invocation, a completion, a step, a sleep, a call or an awakeable, counted per started 64 KiB. 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Restate sends nothing to the approver, so the Slack message, email or inbox is the builder's code, and the published terms and privacy statement predate the paid plans.", "bestFor": "A team that already writes agent steps as durable handlers and wants a long, cheap wait for a human answer in TypeScript, Python, Java, Go or Rust, with the option to self-host.", "strengths": [ "One HTTP request resolves or rejects an awakeable, and the waiting handler resumes after restarts or redeployment", "`orTimeout` puts a durable timer on the wait, so the remaining time survives a crash", "Free plan of 100,000 actions a month with no card, and $25 per extra million actions on Starter and Business", "Cloud Environments shows 100 per cent on the status page for the 90 days to 8 October 2026", "MIT SDKs for TypeScript, Python, Java and Kotlin, Go and Rust, with llms.txt and Markdown copies of every docs page" ], "weaknesses": [ "No reviewer inbox, Slack app or email. 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On a self-hosted server put an authenticating proxy in front of port 8080", "Wrap the wait in `orTimeout` and decide what a timeout means. 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The server licence names Restate Software, Inc. and Restate GmbH as licensors.", "The general terms and conditions cover Restate Cloud by name, under German law with Berlin as the place of jurisdiction, and say its use is free of charge, which the pricing page no longer matches.", "No privacy field. The privacy statement at https://restate.dev/privacy is dated 23 February 2022 and covers the website, the newsletter and early code access, not customer data in Restate Cloud, and no other privacy policy was found.", "Restate Cloud environments answer at \u003cenv_id\u003e.env.\u003cregion\u003e.restate.cloud, a different domain from restate.dev.", "https://restate.dev/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 2026-10-08. The trust centre at trust.restate.dev is hosted by Vanta and didn't load in our reader.", "RDAP gives 2022-02-11 as the registration date of restate.dev." ], "score": 54 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/restate.json", "live": { "slug": "restate", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.restate.dev", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:06:57.822833829Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.restate.dev/changelog/server", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:19:19.75301134Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1213cece2209" }, { "url": "https://restate.dev/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:44.722910015Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6eb8d04dcfe6" }, { "url": "https://restate.dev/terms-and-conditions", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:23:46.891274553Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "32e2a89f3bf3" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:06:57.822833829Z" } }, "answer": "Temporal scores 77.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Restate's 73.3 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Restate leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "temporal", "name": "Temporal", "vendor": "Temporal Technologies", "vendorUrl": "https://temporal.io", "kind": "platform", "category": "human-in-the-loop", "summary": "Open-source durable execution platform with SDKs in Go, Java, Python, TypeScript, .NET, PHP, Ruby and Rust, run yourself or on Temporal Cloud.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/temporal", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/temporal.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/temporal.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/temporal.json", "repo": "https://github.com/temporalio/temporal", "license": "MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "temporalio" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@temporalio/client" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Temporal Cloud clients and workers authenticate with an API key or mTLS certificates per namespace. A self-hosted server has whatever auth you configure.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "Temporal Cloud bills Actions, storage and a plan. Developer has no base fee and adds 10 per cent of usage spend. Business is the greater of $500 a month or 10 per cent of usage, with 2.5 million Actions, 2.5 GB active and 100 GB retained storage included. Enterprise and Mission Critical are priced annually through sales. Actions cost $50 per million, and from Business up the price steps down with volume to $25 per million between 100 and 200 million. Active storage is $0.042 and retained $0.00105 per GB-hour (https://docs.temporal.io/cloud/pricing). Every Signal and every timer, including the implicit one behind a wait with a timeout, counts as an Action (https://docs.temporal.io/evaluate/cloud/actions). New Cloud accounts get $150 of credits for 90 days, and the pricing page says a card is required (https://temporal.io/pricing). Self-hosting is free under MIT.", "priceSummary": "$0.05 / 1k calls", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.temporal.io/design-patterns/approval", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.temporal.io/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://github.com/temporalio/api/blob/master/openapi/openapiv3.yaml", "capabilities": [ "hitl.approve", "hitl.ask", "hitl.audit", "agent.durable", "automation.workflows", "automation.code" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "self-hosted", "open-source", "llms-txt", "python", "typescript", "enterprise" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-15", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 77.2, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 20, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 629, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 20, "reliability": 85, "schema": 91, "security": 86, "transparency": 70 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Waits of any length with a timeout survive worker restarts and deploys. No reviewer inbox, notifications or routing, so the human side is all your code.", "bestFor": "A team that already runs, or wants to run, agents as durable workflows with strict guarantees and an audit trail per run.", "strengths": [ "Waits of any length with a timeout survive worker restarts and deploys", "Each workflow's event history is an audit trail of every signal, without extra logging", "Contractual SLA of 99.9 per cent per namespace, 99.99 with High Availability", "Namespace-scoped API keys with RBAC, expiry warnings and a read-only role", "MIT-licensed server and SDKs in eight languages, with OpenAPI for the HTTP API" ], "weaknesses": [ "No reviewer inbox, notifications or routing, so the human side is all your code", "Needs running workers and a Temporal service before the first approval", "Signals and timers are billed Actions on Cloud, and the $150 trial credit needs a card", "History caps of 51,200 events or 50 MB per run push long agent loops towards Continue-As-New", "Control-plane audit logs leave out data-plane events such as workflow starts and terminations" ], "agentNotes": [ "Put the decision in a typed Signal payload (approver, decision, comments, timestamp) instead of a bare boolean", "Always wait with a timeout and treat the timeout path as a rejection or an escalation on purpose", "Use the workflow ID as the approval ID, so the reviewer's tool only needs one value to send the Signal", "Use an Update instead of a Signal when the approver's tool needs an acknowledgement back", "Expect `ResourceExhausted` under load and let the SDK retry it, since signals are throttled last" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 8, "avgRating": 3.6, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 77.2 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 85, "maintenance": 90, "payments": 20, "reliability": 85, "schema": 91, "security": 86, "transparency": 75 }, "provenanceScore": 65 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install temporalio" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/hitl.approve", "tool": "https://letme.dev/temporal" }, "alsoIn": [ "workflow-automation" ], "area": "agent-runtime", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Actions, first 5 million", "unit": "1k-calls", "usd": 0.05, "note": "$50 per million. Each Signal and timer is an Action" }, { "item": "Business plan minimum", "unit": "month", "usd": 500, "note": "Or 10 per cent of usage if higher, 2.5 million Actions included" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Temporal Technologies Inc.", "domain": "temporal.io", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "", "privacy": "https://temporal.io/global-privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.temporal.io", "changelog": "https://github.com/temporalio/temporal/releases", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "The legal entity is from the server's MIT licence and the docs footer.", "status.temporal.io runs on Atlassian Statuspage with components for 14 AWS regions, 6 GCP regions and 8 global services. Its history page renders with JavaScript and we read only the recent incidents on the front page.", "Server v1.32.0 is on a commit dated 2026-09-10, with patch releases v1.31.3 (2026-09-14) and v1.30.7 (2026-09-15). A v1.33.0 release candidate was tagged on 2026-09-29.", "The privacy policy (updated 2026-04-22) names Temporal Technologies Inc., 2337 148th Ave NE #1335, Bellevue, WA 98007. We couldn't read the terms, security.txt or RDAP on 2026-10-01." ], "score": 65 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/temporal.json", "live": { "slug": "temporal", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.temporal.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:07:01.628233843Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "temporalio/temporal", "version": "v1.32.0", "released": "2026-09-11", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:31:57.722584673Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@temporalio/client", "version": "1.24.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:31:56.889481432Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "temporalio", "version": "1.34.0", "released": "2026-09-30", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:31:56.774090235Z" } ], "githubStars": 23540, "npmWeekly": 5245543, "pypiWeekly": 9076462, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://temporal.io/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-01-15T00:00:00Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:33.875152843Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.temporal.io/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:56.480514978Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "temporal.io", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:39.916747902Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.temporal.io/cloud/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:19:35.447960248Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:19:35.447960248Z", "fingerprint": "c62f3339158e" }, { "url": "https://temporal.io/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:25:13.156922192Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-08T18:25:13.156922192Z", "fingerprint": "68395f7c2aee" }, { "url": "https://temporal.io/global-privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:25:10.818231088Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:13:04.880659612Z", "fingerprint": "9ba56146b200" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T19:07:01.628233843Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Model platform", "b": "Model platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Restate GmbH", "b": "Temporal Technologies", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "BSL 1.1 converting to Apache-2.0 four years after release (server), MIT (SDKs)", "b": "MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-09-15", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "no document linked", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no document linked", "b": "2026-04-22", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "4.5k stars, 329k npm/wk, 76k PyPI/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.6/5 (8)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Temporal scores 77.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Restate's 73.3 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Restate leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Restate or Temporal?" }, { "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Restate. Temporal is open source (MIT).", "question": "Are Restate and Temporal open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 91 against 85", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "A team that already writes agent steps as durable handlers and wants a long, cheap wait for a human answer in TypeScript, Python, Java, Go or Rust, with the option to self-host.", "slug": "restate", "watchFor": "No reviewer inbox, Slack app or email. The approval request and the reply endpoint are the builder's code" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 91 against 85", "Security \u0026 auth, 86 against 61", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 70 against 50" ], "also": [ "Open source" ], "goodFor": "A team that already runs, or wants to run, agents as durable workflows with strict guarantees and an audit trail per run.", "slug": "temporal", "watchFor": "No reviewer inbox, notifications or routing, so the human side is all your code" } ], "job": { "capability": "hitl.approve", "name": "Hitl approve" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-restate.json", "title": "gotoHuman vs Restate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-restate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-temporal.json", "title": "gotoHuman vs Temporal", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-temporal" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-restate.json", "title": "Inngest vs Restate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-restate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-temporal.json", "title": "Inngest vs Temporal", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inngest-vs-temporal" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orkes-conductor-vs-restate.json", "title": "Orkes Conductor Human tasks vs Restate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orkes-conductor-vs-restate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orkes-conductor-vs-temporal.json", "title": "Orkes Conductor Human tasks vs Temporal", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/orkes-conductor-vs-temporal" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/permit-mcp-gateway-vs-restate.json", "title": "Permit MCP Gateway vs Restate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/permit-mcp-gateway-vs-restate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/permit-mcp-gateway-vs-temporal.json", "title": "Permit MCP Gateway vs Temporal", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/permit-mcp-gateway-vs-temporal" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pushary-vs-restate.json", "title": "Pushary vs Restate", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pushary-vs-restate" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pushary-vs-temporal.json", "title": "Pushary vs Temporal", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pushary-vs-temporal" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/restate-vs-trigger-dev.json", "title": "Restate vs Trigger.dev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/restate-vs-trigger-dev" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/temporal-vs-trigger-dev.json", "title": "Temporal vs Trigger.dev", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/temporal-vs-trigger-dev" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 6, "edge": "restate", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "restate": 91, "temporal": 85, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "temporal", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "restate": 85, "temporal": 91, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 4, "edge": "temporal", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "restate": 81, "temporal": 85, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 25, "edge": "temporal", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "restate": 61, "temporal": 86, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "restate", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "restate": 40, "temporal": 20, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 2, "edge": "restate", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "restate": 92, "temporal": 90, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "temporal", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "restate": 50, "temporal": 70, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Temporal scores 77.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Restate's 73.3 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Restate leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do hitl approve.", "verdicts": { "restate": "An awakeable pauses a handler at no compute cost and resumes it from one HTTP request, with a durable timeout, on a free plan of 100,000 actions a month. Restate sends nothing to the approver, so the Slack message, email or inbox is the builder's code, and the published terms and privacy statement predate the paid plans.", "temporal": "Waits of any length with a timeout survive worker restarts and deploys. No reviewer inbox, notifications or routing, so the human side is all your code." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/restate-vs-temporal", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/restate-vs-temporal.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/restate-vs-temporal.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/restate-vs-temporal.min.md" }, "markdown": "Temporal scores 77.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Restate's 73.3 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Restate leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do hitl approve.\n\n- Restate: grade BB, 73.3/100, rank #74 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/restate.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/restate.json\n- Temporal: grade BB, 77.2/100, rank #20 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/temporal.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/temporal.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Restate (BB)\n\nGood for: A team that already writes agent steps as durable handlers and wants a long, cheap wait for a human answer in TypeScript, Python, Java, Go or Rust, with the option to self-host.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 91 against 85\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No reviewer inbox, Slack app or email. The approval request and the reply endpoint are the builder's code\n\n### Temporal (BB)\n\nGood for: A team that already runs, or wants to run, agents as durable workflows with strict guarantees and an audit trail per run.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 91 against 85\n- Security \u0026 auth, 86 against 61\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 70 against 50\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: No reviewer inbox, notifications or routing, so the human side is all your code\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Restate | Temporal | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 91 | 85 | Restate +6 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 91 | Temporal +6 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 85 | Temporal +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 86 | Temporal +25 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 20 | Restate +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 92 | 90 | Restate +2 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 50 | 70 | Temporal +20 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **73.3 · BB** | **77.2 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Restate | Temporal |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model platform | Model platform |\n| Vendor | Restate GmbH | Temporal Technologies |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | BSL 1.1 converting to Apache-2.0 four years after release (server), MIT (SDKs) | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-09-15 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-04-22 |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | |\n| Popularity | 4.5k stars, 329k npm/wk, 76k PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.6/5 (8) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Restate.** An awakeable pauses a handler at no compute cost and resumes it from one HTTP request, with a durable timeout, on a free plan of 100,000 actions a month. Restate sends nothing to the approver, so the Slack message, email or inbox is the builder's code, and the published terms and privacy statement predate the paid plans.\n\n**Temporal.** Waits of any length with a timeout survive worker restarts and deploys. No reviewer inbox, notifications or routing, so the human side is all your code.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Restate\n\n1. Create the awakeable, send its ID inside `ctx.run`, then await the promise, so a retry doesn't send a second approval request\n2. Resolve with `POST /restate/awakeables/\u003cid\u003e/resolve` and a JSON body, or `/reject` with a text reason, which throws a terminal error in the handler\n3. On Restate Cloud send `Authorization: Bearer key_...` to `https://\u003cenv_id\u003e.env.\u003cregion\u003e.restate.cloud:8080`. On a self-hosted server put an authenticating proxy in front of port 8080\n4. Wrap the wait in `orTimeout` and decide what a timeout means. Without it the handler waits with no limit\n5. Retry ingress errors only on 408, 425, 429 or 5xx, and only when `x-restate-error-source` isn't `invocation`\n\n### Temporal\n\n1. Put the decision in a typed Signal payload (approver, decision, comments, timestamp) instead of a bare boolean\n2. Always wait with a timeout and treat the timeout path as a rejection or an escalation on purpose\n3. Use the workflow ID as the approval ID, so the reviewer's tool only needs one value to send the Signal\n4. Use an Update instead of a Signal when the approver's tool needs an acknowledgement back\n5. Expect `ResourceExhausted` under load and let the SDK retry it, since signals are throttled last\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Restate or Temporal?\n\nTemporal scores 77.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Restate's 73.3 (BB), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Restate leads on reliability and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Are Restate and Temporal open source?\n\nNo open-source release is listed for Restate. 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