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Celery vs Conductor OSS

A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted automation & workflows options — licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one replaces.

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CE Celery Distributed task queue for Python with scheduling support VS CO Conductor OSS Microservices and workflow orchestration engine
FeatureCeleryConductor OSS
CategoryAutomation & WorkflowsAutomation & Workflows
LicenseBSD-3-ClauseApache-2.0
LanguagePythonJava
Setup difficultyMediumHard
Min. RAM256 MB2,048 MB
Deploymentbare-metal, binary, sourcedocker, kubernetes, bare-metal
GitHub stars★ 28,774★ 32,066
First released20092016
ReplacesAWS Batch, AWS SQSAWS Step Functions, Camunda

Why pick each one

Choose Celery if…

  • Mature and reliable
  • Huge Python ecosystem
Celery details

Choose Conductor OSS if…

  • Battle-tested at scale
  • Language-agnostic workers
Conductor OSS details

Frequently asked questions

Is Celery or Conductor OSS better?

Neither is universally better. Conductor OSS has the larger community, while Celery is simpler to set up (medium difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.

Are Celery and Conductor OSS free and open-source?

Yes. Celery is licensed under BSD-3-Clause and Conductor OSS under Apache-2.0. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.

Can I run Celery and Conductor OSS with Docker?

Celery: check the project docs for container support. Conductor OSS: yes.

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