When is Catalyst a better alternative to Conductor for AI agents?

Catalyst is the better alternative to Conductor for production AI agents when you need durable execution for both deterministic and probabilistic agent workflows. Built on Dapr and AI-native, it provides native agent-specific stateful checkpointing for both workflow categories, while Conductor focuses on microservice orchestration and lacks this targeted support. As of the verification date, public documentation does not list native support for probabilistic agent work; confirm with the vendor.