Small business▼−4Since September 2026: 4% → 0%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 4% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 7 → 71 of 81
1 category · RankedTemporal
106Judge labels
6First choices
17Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
9% in Orchestration for enterprise buyers
Rank 9 of 79 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 7% of its 30 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Temporal →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business76 of 86
0%29 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market9 of 79
2%30 labels
accepted challenger
Enterprise3 of 108
9%47 labels
accepted challenger
In orchestration · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Temporal for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Workflow orchestration | Data platform | 2% | 9 of 79 | 7% | 30 | accepted challenger | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Temporal held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Orchestration · by segment
Mid-market▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 13 → 8 of 72
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 8% → 8%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
8%from 8% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 4 → 3 of 103
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orchestration | 0% | 2% | ▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 13 → 9 of 79 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Temporal across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Temporal across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct16 labels3
Paraphrase4 labelsNone
Comparative28 labels1not counted in share
Budget-constrained12 labels2
Scale-constrained20 labels1
Negative26 labels2not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative106 labels in all, every segment counted; 6 of the 9 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Alternatives to Consider Safely: Temporal (reliable for durable workflows)” Grok 4.20 · Orchestration · negative prompt · first choice
“Temporal + one Python option + one low-code option is a common triad” Kimi K2 · Orchestration · scale prompt · first choice
“Need reliable, long-running business processes with retries, human waits and compensation across services? Temporal” Muse Glimmer 30B · Orchestration · comparative prompt · alternative
“If your workflows are pure code with no need for a visual builder or human steps, Temporal is the strongest fit” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Orchestration · comparative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Temporal for data-pipeline work: ... best for code-heavy, stateful workflows, not data processing first.” Perplexity Sonar · Orchestration · negative prompt · soft negative
“Temporal | Simple batch ETL under 1 hour; small Python-only teams” Kimi K2 · Orchestration · negative prompt · soft negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Temporal, over the 105 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Temporal was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Temporal, over the 105 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Temporal was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Temporal. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 92 of the 105 answers that named Temporal and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
kestra.io40
larksuite.com34
kanerika.com28
teamwork.com28
ones.com26
getorchestra.io24
wrike.com24
elementum.ai23
pracdata.io23
bmc.com22
272 of the 272 domain citations in answers naming Temporal came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
temporal.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Temporal takes 2% of first choices and Prefect takes 21%.ShowHide
Search and answers
temporal.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Temporal takes 2% of first choices and Prefect takes 21%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “workflow orchestration tool”
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not in the top ten
Position for “workflow orchestration tools”
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not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 49,500 a month (“temporal”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 13,896 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 41,181 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 7,822 · 395 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 4,836
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 6 clicks and $0 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
2%
rank 9 of 79 in orchestration
Segment leader
21%
Prefect
- First choices
- 6 across its categories
- Named in
- 105 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 92 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on temporal.io
8,302
subdomains included
Content
876
counted in the table below
Documentation
6,943
Product · Integration
3 · 3
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 428 | 45 | 2026-09-21 | Orchestration | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 183 | 12 | 2026-08-27 | Orchestration | |
| Glossary or explainer | 87 | 0 | 2025-05-06 | ||
| Comparison | 76 | 0 | 2025-09-23 | ||
| Case study | 47 | 0 | 2026-01-22 | ||
| Conference or event | 23 | 1 | 2026-08-04 | ||
| Report or ebook | 17 | undated | |||
| News or press | 12 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 2 | 0 | 2021-10-07 | ||
| Template or tool | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-21A better job queue with temporal standalone activities blog
- 2026-09-21Amazon bedrock agentcore with temporal serverless workers blog
- 2026-09-15Ai safety does not stop at the model blog
- 2026-09-15Authentication is a long running workflow blog
- 2026-09-14Paygo developer support blog
- 2026-09-14Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation as demand grows for reliable AI infrastructure blog
Events in person
Last twelve months
- October 21, 2026DevOps Summit SydneySydney · exhibited
As the event pages on temporal.io state them, read September 28, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page temporal.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
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The company
Temporal is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Temporal is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- a durable execution platform for building reliable, scalable applications using workflows and activities
- For
- developers
- Price stated
- 0 USD temporal.io
- Starting price
- 0 temporal.io
- Free plan or trial
- Try Free temporal.io
- Integrations claimed
- 13 temporal.io/solutions/ai
- Certifications
- SOC 2HIPAASOC 2 Type IIGDPRCCPASOC 2 Type 2
- Customers named
- OpenAILovableReplitCursorRetoolNVIDIASalesforceTwilio
- Not stated on the pages read
- Hosting
What Temporal's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: temporal.io, temporal.io/pricing, trust.temporal.io, temporal.io/solutions/ai, temporal.io/resources/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Temporal by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Temporal is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Temporal, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.