Google Cloud Workflows
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| Fact | Google Cloud Workflows | Windmill |
|---|---|---|
| Company profile | LinkedIn lists Google as a public software-development company headquartered in Mountain View, California, with 10,001+ employees. | LinkedIn lists Windmill as privately held, founded in 2022, headquartered in Dover and employing 11–50 people. |
| Documentation depth | The documentation set includes quickstarts, tutorials, syntax and standard-library references, REST APIs, connectors, quotas, release notes, training, and code samples. | Documentation covers scripts, flows, apps, local development, CLI, SDKs, integrations, deployment, authentication, security and operations. |
| Integrations | Connectors integrate workflows with Google Cloud APIs and handle request formatting, retries, and long-running operations; examples include Pub/Sub, Firestore, and Secret Manager. | Windmill Hub lists more than 200 resource types, including Google services, GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Microsoft Teams, AWS, S3, BigQuery, ClickHouse, Datadog and Discord. |
| Licence | The managed Workflows service is proprietary; Google's public Workflows samples repository is marked Apache-2.0. | Windmill states that its open-source edition is licensed under AGPLv3; enterprise features use a commercial licence. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.4 out of 5 from 6 reviews. | 5.0 out of 5 from 2 reviews |
| Security | Workflows runs in a sandboxed environment without code or library dependencies that require security patches, and it can use Secret Manager to store and retrieve secrets. | Windmill lists granular permissions, RBAC, secret management, OAuth, SSO and audit logs among its enterprise features. |
Google Cloud Workflows plans
- Always FreeFree
- Always Free external stepsFree
- Always Free internal stepsFree
- Internal steps$0.01 a month
- Pay as you go$0.01 a month
- External steps$0.03 a month
Windmill plans
- Free and Open-sourceFree
- Enterprise$120 a month
- Enterprise example configuration$170 a month
Pick Google Cloud Workflows if…
Workflows suits teams orchestrating cloud services, APIs, batch jobs, or business and IT processes. It may fit those comfortable defining workflows in YAML or JSON and working within step and duration limits.
Pick Windmill if…
Windmill suits teams building internal tools and workflows who want script-based or low-code development options. Its language support and self-hosting may also suit teams with established development and deployment workflows.