Cadence

Uber's open-source durable workflow engine

★ Stars9.5k9,502 on GitHub

Last commit3 days ago16 Oct 2026

LicenceMITPer the project

From GitHub, fetched 19 Oct 2026. The repository's licence file is detected as Apache-2.0; MIT is the licence of the application itself.

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Cadence is Uber's open-source orchestration engine for stateful workflows. Temporal grew from the same lineage; Cadence remains actively used.

Fit: hosting and licence

Runs on	Linux, Self-hosted
Hosting	Self-host
Commercial use	Allowed Open-source licence (MIT): the Open Source Definition rules out restrictions on fields of use, including business use.

Sources: cadenceworkflow.io · opensource.org/osd, checked 19 Oct 2026. “Runs on” is from this listing. Blank means we haven't found it in official docs yet, not that it's unsupported.

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Status	Open source
Licence	MIT
Platforms	Linux, Self-hosted
Category	Job orchestrators & durable workflows
Website	cadenceworkflow.io
Source	GitHub

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