6 alternatives to conductor
conductor-oss/conductor — Conductor is an event driven agentic workflow engine providing durable and highly resilient execution engine for applications and AI Agents (32,386 stars, Apache-2.0, ui, database, integration).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 2,142 licence-cleared components from conductor-oss/conductor itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
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| 1 | vercel/workflow | 4.7 | Apache-2.0 | 2,475 |
| 2 | dbos-inc/dbos-transact-golang | 4.8 | MIT | 862 |
| 3 | cadence-workflow/cadence | 4.8 | Apache-2.0 | 9,522 |
| 4 | triggerdotdev/trigger.dev | 6.4 | Apache-2.0 | 16,592 |
| 5 | activepieces/activepieces | 6.0 | MIT | 25,179 |
| 6 | durable-workflow/workflow | 4.5 | MIT | 1,255 |
The alternatives in detail
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Workflow SDK: Build durable, reliable, and observable apps and AI Agents in TypeScriptscore 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 2,475 stars · 795 components · search them
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Database-Backed Durable Golang Workflowsscore 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 862 stars · 44 components · search them
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Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.score 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 9,522 stars · 1,224 components · search them
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Trigger.dev – build and deploy durable AI agents and workflowsscore 6.4/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 16,592 stars · 3,009 components · search them
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AI Agents & MCPs & AI Workflow Automation • (~400 MCP servers for AI agents) • AI Automation / AI Agent with MCPs • AI Workflows & AI Agents • MCPs for AI Agents
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Core package for defining and running durable workflows and activities. Supports long-running persistent workflows, retries, queues, parallel execution, workflow monitoring, dedicated storage connections, and orchestratiscore 4.5/10 · MIT permissive · 1,255 stars · 570 components · search them
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