# Temporal

Source: https://calc.onpremeasy.com/product/temporal/

## Indicative from-price range

Indicative from-price range for self-hosting Temporal on 3 servers: about $72 to $337 per month (USD), as of 2026-10-19, for the reference workload (Peak concurrent workflow executions: 100; Active scheduled workflows: 500; Workflow history retention (days): 30). From-price by provider, each the cheapest server in that provider's own shortlist: $72 on DigitalOcean (basic-2vcpu-4gb, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, fra1); $147 on Google Cloud (e2-standard-2, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, us-central1); $190 on Amazon Web Services (c9g.large, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, us-east-1); $192 on OVHcloud (rise-1, 6 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, eu-west); $199 on Microsoft Azure (D2as_v7, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, eastus); $199 on Hetzner (AX41, 6 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-central); $787 on Servers.com (dl-01, 8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-west).

Reference workload:
- Peak concurrent workflow executions: 100
- Active scheduled workflows: 500
- Workflow history retention (days): 30

Price snapshot: 2026-10-19. Currency: USD. FX snapshot: 2026-10-19.

Configuration: Low end: 3 x basic-2vcpu-4gb (DigitalOcean, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, about $24 per server per month). High end: 3 x rise-m (OVHcloud, 12 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, about $112 per server per month).

Methodology: This range is generated automatically from public provider price lists. It has not been reviewed by a person, it is not a quote, and it may differ from the total the calculator chooses for your own workload with its AI step. Method: the calculator's offer shortlist for the reference workload (the same ranking it builds before the AI step, up to 12 offers across providers; 12 here) is priced at its monthly list price in USD. The low end is the cheapest of the per-provider from-prices below and the high end is the median server of the combined shortlist, each multiplied by 3, the smallest baseline topology (pooled-cluster). The from-price for each provider applies the same method to that provider's own shortlist (the calculator's ranking restricted to that provider), so it is the cheapest server that ranking offers there, not a recommendation. Prices are taken from the price snapshot dated 2026-10-19; prices quoted in EUR are converted with the ECB reference rate dated 2026-10-19. Servers with fewer than 2 vCPU or less than 4 GB RAM are not priced. Only server rental list prices for the product's own servers are counted: dependencies, licences, support, traffic charges, taxes and setup fees are not included.

Price sources:
- [Amazon Web Services](https://pricing.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/offers/v1.0/aws/AmazonEC2/current/us-east-1/index.json)
- [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets)
- [Google Cloud](https://cloudbilling.googleapis.com/v1/services/6F81-5844-456A/skus)
- [Hetzner](https://www.hetzner.com/_resources/app/data/app/live_data_en_EUR.json)
- [Microsoft Azure](https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices)
- [OVHcloud](https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/order/catalog/public/eco?ovhSubsidiary=FR)
- [Servers.com](https://www.servers.com/products/scalable-bare-metal)

Temporal is an open-source durable execution platform that lets developers write business logic as ordinary code while the server durably persists workflow state, replays execution history, and automatically retries failed activities. Multi-language SDKs and a self-hostable server mean long-running or fault-sensitive processes need no custom checkpointing logic.

## What gets deployed with it

- PostgreSQL HA Cluster (required): Temporal requires a durable relational persistence backend for workflow state, task queues, and history records. PostgreSQL is the recommended production backend.

## Baseline topologies

- pooled-cluster: 3 nodes minimum; roles: temporal-cluster
- per-service-scaled: 4 nodes minimum; roles: temporal-frontend, temporal-history, temporal-matching, temporal-worker

## What drives the cost

- Peak concurrent workflow executions: Peak number of workflow executions running simultaneously across the cluster. Drives History service memory and task dispatch throughput.
- Active scheduled workflows: Total number of workflows with active cron or interval schedules. Drives Matching service and scheduler heartbeat load.
- Workflow history retention (days): How long completed workflow execution history is retained in the persistence backend. Affects database storage footprint.

## Frequently asked questions

### How much does it cost to self-host Temporal?

Indicative from-price range for self-hosting Temporal on 3 servers: about $72 to $337 per month (USD), as of 2026-10-19, for the reference workload (Peak concurrent workflow executions: 100; Active scheduled workflows: 500; Workflow history retention (days): 30). From-price by provider, each the cheapest server in that provider's own shortlist: $72 on DigitalOcean (basic-2vcpu-4gb, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, fra1); $147 on Google Cloud (e2-standard-2, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, us-central1); $190 on Amazon Web Services (c9g.large, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, us-east-1); $192 on OVHcloud (rise-1, 6 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, eu-west); $199 on Microsoft Azure (D2as_v7, 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, eastus); $199 on Hetzner (AX41, 6 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-central); $787 on Servers.com (dl-01, 8 vCPU, 64 GB RAM, eu-west). This is an automatically generated indicative figure from public price lists (price snapshot 2026-10-19), not a quote.

### What drives the cost of self-hosting Temporal?

The sizing inputs the calculator uses for Temporal are: Peak concurrent workflow executions; Active scheduled workflows; Workflow history retention (days). Cost also depends on the number of servers and the provider chosen.

### What is the minimum number of servers for Temporal?

The smallest baseline topology in the calculator's profile for Temporal is pooled-cluster (3 servers). Other baseline topologies: per-service-scaled (4 servers minimum). The reference range above is computed for 3 servers.

Size Temporal for your own workload: https://calc.onpremeasy.com/?product=temporal

## Sources

- https://temporal.io/
- https://docs.temporal.io/
- https://github.com/temporalio/temporal