Orkes Conductor vs. Conductor OSS
Compare Orkes Conductor and Conductor OSS accompanied by an in depth look into the respective features and capabilities.
Enterprise level features and capabilities built on the battle-tested foundation of Conductor OSS
Up to four 9s of availability
Orkes Conductor has industry standard levels of availability and account based customer support.
Enterprise grade security
Additional features to ensure the security of sensitive information and the ability to control who within your organization has access.
Heightened observability
Review logs of all workflow executions, metadata changes, and user group changes with change data capture and audit logs.
Enhanced developer velocity
Increase the efficiency of your engineering team with an enhanced visual workflow creation UI and out of the box features like AI and LLM chaining, and human tasks.
Effortless scaling
Scale to the billions of workflows with managed clusters on your preferred cloud provider or on your private cloud.
Feature Comparison
Capability
Conductor OSS Orkes Conductor 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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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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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 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
- 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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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
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
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
HTTP Poll Task
~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
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Query processor task
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30X Performance Improvement, 10X Lower Cost of Ownership Over Self-Hosted Conductor OSS
See what Orkes customers that made the switch are saying
“Orkes has been instrumental in increasing developer agility, creating cost efficiencies, and building highly reliable and secure applications.”
“With Orkes Conductor hosted in Orkes Cloud, we don't have to think about building and maintaining the orchestration engine ourselves. We can focus on creating an exceptional customer experience and optimizing our margins,”