Orkes Conductor vs. Conductor OSS

Operational Capabilities

Tasks throughput/second

Number of tasks (across all workflows) processed per second.
Ability to scale workloads with less downtime and increased output with a high task throughput rate.

~100

1000+

High Availability

Conductor server is available to serve API requests
Run mission critical applications with high availability needs.

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Up to 99.99% SLA

Multi-Region support with auto-failover

Stay up and running even in the event of an entire cloud region or data center failing.

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Infinitely scalable Conductor core

Build or scale with a limitless number of application workflows and executions.

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End to end managed and custom architected clusters

Abstract out the heavy lifting of DevOps for your Conductor cluster to Orkes.

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Metrics & Analytics Dashboard w/ Alerts

Gain insights into workflows that drive your business.
Identify workflow patterns across your distributed landscape and quickly resolve bottlenecks.
Built-in alerting over hundreds of granular metrics.

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Managed Cloud Offerings (including customer cloud hosted) on AWS, Azure, GCP

Deploy managed Orkes Conductor clusters on your preferred cloud provider either hosted by Orkes or on your cloud footprint.

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Private cloud / data-center deployed enterprise grade clusters

Deploy Orkes Conductor on premise on your data centers.

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Enterprise support

Dedicated customer success manager, technical architect, and premium support resources.

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Developer Productivity Capabilities

Enhanced UI with Workflow Creator

Increase idea to production velocity by creating and editing workflows visually in the Conductor UI.
In Addition, leverage the built-in code editor for fine turning your definitions and integrating with source code repositories.

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SDKs in multiple languages

Easily build client and worker applications using Conductor SDKs in Java, Python, C# Javascript, Go, Clojure (support for additional languages coming)

Cli for conductor

Build worker code and more using command line tooling

Unit testing for Workflows in all supported languages

Unit & Regression Tests – Docs

Scaling CapabilitIES

Indexing via persistent queues

Internal optimization for handling large volume workloads

Efficient & high performance indexing and archiving

Scale to billions of workflow executions cost effectively with multi-layer persistence.

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High performance queuing

Increased throughput for handling large volumes of simultaneous task executions

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Improved persistence to reduce IO, network calls, compression

Internal optimizations to support very large volume workloads and lower infrastructure TCO

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Support for large forks

Execute massively parallel use cases with up to 60k parallel forks in a single workflow execution

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Security Capabilities

Role Based Access Controls

Securely share workflows, tasks, secrets, AI prompts and more with other teams with granular access controls.

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Secrets store sensitive workflow data

Securely store API keys and tokens with custom access requirements to be used within workflows.

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Directory sync, SSO between Orkes and Okta, AD and any OAuth 2.0 providers

Use your company’s ID provider for Single Sign On access to Conductor.
Create access control groups in the ID provider for seamless syncing with Conductor Role Based Access Control groups.

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AI Orchestration Capabilities

AI Prompt Management Studio

Create, test and manage prompts to be used with LLM system tasks.
Securely share with other teams to be used in multiple workflows and with multiple model providers.

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AI & Vector DB Orchestration

Seamlessly blend LLMs and vector DB interactions into your workflows using built-in system tasks

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Human Task CapabilitIES

Human Task

Add human interactions to your workflows with built-in system task for assigning users or groups for specific actions inside an execution flow

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Human Task APIs

Integrate external human interaction layers (e.g. web portal) with Conductor to execute human assigned tasks in a workflow execution (e.g. mortgage workflow with a human approval step if the amount is greater than $x)

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Up to 99.99% SLA

Human Task Forms

Build and present visual forms associated with human tasks. Wire up form elements to variables and tasks outputs in the workflow execution

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Core Orchestration Capabilities

Workflow priorities

Prioritize execution of specific workflows in line with your business priority.

Synchronous workflow execution (useful for short duration workflows)

Fast synchronous execution model for latency sensitive workloads such as API gateways.

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Scheduler

Execute workflows at a prescribed cadence (e.g. once every 10 seconds, once a month, at 4pm every day) without the need for an external cron job.

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Lightweight locks

Internal optimization for increased throughput

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Array based dynamic fork

Invoke dynamic forks easily with tasks and parameters specified in an input array – View Docs

Integrations: AI Model providers, Vector DBs, Message Queues, Alerting Services, ID Providers, Logs & Metrics Integrators

Built-in integrations to interact with various components of your technology stack.

Partial

EVent-Driven Orchestration Capabilities

Webhooks

Asynchronously signal waiting workflows or start new workflow executions using built-in webhooks for incoming calls.

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Terminate workflow using Event

Consume events from a queue to signal termination for an active workflow execution - View Docs

SYstem Tasks Capabilities

HTTP Poll Task

Reference Docs

~100

1000+

Custom HTTP field extraction

Conductor server is available to serve API requests
Run mission critical applications with high availability needs.

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Up to 99.99% SLA

Business rules task

Reference Docs

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Query processor task

Reference Docs

Orkes Conductor vs. Conductor OSS

Enterprise level features and capabilities built on the battle-tested foundation of Conductor OSS

Up to four 9s of availability

Enterprise grade security

Heightened observability

Enhanced developer velocity

Effortless scaling

Operational Capabilities

Conductor OSS

Orkes Conductor

Tasks throughput/second

~100

1000+

High Availability

–

Up to 99.99% SLA

Multi-Region support with auto-failover

–

Infinitely scalable Conductor core

–

End to end managed and custom architected clusters

–

Metrics & Analytics Dashboard w/ Alerts

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Managed Cloud Offerings (including customer cloud hosted) on AWS, Azure, GCP

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Private cloud / data-center deployed enterprise grade clusters

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Enterprise support

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Developer Productivity Capabilities

Conductor OSS

Orkes Conductor

Enhanced UI with Workflow Creator

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SDKs in multiple languages

Cli for conductor

Unit testing for Workflows in all supported languages

Scaling CapabilitIES

Conductor OSS

Orkes Conductor

Indexing via persistent queues

Efficient & high performance indexing and archiving

–

High performance queuing

–

Improved persistence to reduce IO, network calls, compression

–

Support for large forks

–

Security Capabilities

Conductor OSS

Orkes Conductor

Role Based Access Controls

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Secrets store sensitive workflow data

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Directory sync, SSO between Orkes and Okta, AD and any OAuth 2.0 providers

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AI Orchestration Capabilities

Conductor OSS

Orkes Conductor

AI Prompt Management Studio

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AI & Vector DB Orchestration

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Human Task CapabilitIES

Conductor OSS

Orkes Conductor

Human Task

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Human Task APIs

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Up to 99.99% SLA

Human Task Forms

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Core Orchestration Capabilities

Conductor OSS

Orkes Conductor

Workflow priorities