4 categories · RankedTempo
Tempo is an open-source distributed tracing tool that is compatible with OpenTelemetry · temporal.io ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
OpenTelemetry Collector is first at 40%.
OpenTelemetry Collector is first at 45%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Cribl Stream is first at 40%.
Why models recommend it
“Excellent if your engineering team prefers open-source standards, wants lower software costs, and has the internal bandwidth to manage dashboards.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“Tempo is cost-effective for traces compared with heavier distributed tracing backends.”GPT-5.4 mini · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Traces (Tempo) pipeline that automatically handles parsing, labeling, and buffering”MiniMax M2.5 · Paraphrase question · alternative
“self-hosted Prometheus, Loki, and Tempo when minimizing recurring costs matters most”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Jaeger/Tempo/Zipkin or Prometheus/Grafana alone when you expect a complete, turnkey APM experience”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Common for cost-conscious teams but lacks a unified "pipeline" layer.”Grok 4.20 · Comparative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Tempo, over the 51 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 0 | View → | |
| 40 | 7 | View → | |
| 40 | 3 | View → | |
| 38 | 5 | View → | |
| 30 | 4 | View → | |
| 25 | 16 | View → | |
| 25 | 5 | View → | |
| 20 | 1 | View → | |
| 16 | 2 | View → | |
| 16 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Tempo →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Tempo's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- developers building reliable, scalable applications using workflows and activities
- Price stated
- Get $150 in free credits
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Try Free
- Certifications
- HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA
- Hosting
- United States, Customer-Defined Jurisdiction, Customer-Defined Jurisdictions
- Customers named
- OpenAI, NVIDIA, Salesforce, Twilio, Descript, Snapchat, Brex, Qualtrics
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 36 of the 51 answers that named Tempo and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
113 of the 113 domain citations in answers naming Tempo came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| 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
- October 21, 2026DevOps Summit SydneySydney · exhibits
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.