Trigger.dev

Pick for TS app background agent jobs. Inngest for event meshes; Temporal for polyglot durability.

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Pick for TS app background agent jobs. Inngest for event meshes; Temporal for polyglot durability. Strengths: Superb TypeScript DX; Long-running tasks without timeouts; Fast onboarding.

Overall

7.8

curated_estimate

confidence: high · as of 2026-09-14

Capability fit

7.8

Price / performance

8.2

Latency / reliability

8.0

Developer & agent DX

9.2

Privacy / data retention

7.5

Lock-in risk (higher = worse)

4.8

Maturity / track record

7.2

Lock-in risk: higher = more lock-in (worse). Overall already inverts this dimension.

Sources: Trigger.dev pricing: https://trigger.dev/pricing · Trigger.dev: https://trigger.dev · Trigger.dev docs: https://trigger.dev/docs

Pick for TS app background agent jobs. Inngest for event meshes; Temporal for polyglot durability.

Strengths

· Superb TypeScript DX
· Long-running tasks without timeouts
· Fast onboarding

Weaknesses

· TS-centric
· Smaller than Temporal/Inngest ecosystems
· Pricing model to watch at scale

Pricing notes

As of 2026-09-14 (trigger.dev/pricing): Free $0 with $5 credits, 20 concurrent; Hobby $10/mo; Pro $50/mo ($50 credits, 200+ concurrent then $10/mo per 50). Compute: Micro 0.25 vCPU $0.0000169/s; Small-1x $0.0000338/s; up to Large-2x 8 vCPU $0.0006800/s. Invocation $0.000025/prod run. DEV env free. Apache-2.0 self-host. HIPAA BAA add-on. Python via build extension inside TS tasks.

Regions: global, usLast reviewed: 2026-09-14Status: active

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