Trigger.dev
Code-first background jobs and AI workflows, no timeouts
Overview
Trigger.dev is an open-source (Apache-2.0) platform for writing long-running background jobs and AI workflows as plain async TypeScript, with automatic retries, queues, elastic scaling and no execution timeouts. Use the managed cloud or self-host with Docker.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 12 Jul 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- $5 monthly credits
- 20 concurrent runs
- 5 team members
- 1-day log retention
- $10 monthly credits
- 50 concurrent runs
- 7-day log retention
- 3 alert destinations
- $50 monthly credits
- 200+ concurrent runs
- 30-day log retention
- Dedicated Slack support
- AWS PrivateLink support
- Custom log retention
- SOC 2 and pen-test reports
- SSO and RBAC
- Priority support
What you can produce with Trigger.dev
- Background jobs and AI workflows written as plain async TypeScript
- No execution timeouts on long-running tasks
- Automatic retries and queuing
- Elastic auto-scaling with no infrastructure to manage
- Human-in-the-loop workflow steps
- Real-time run observability and logs dashboard
- Self-hostable via Docker Compose or Kubernetes (Apache-2.0)
- SOC 2 and penetration-test reports (Enterprise)
ASEAN Perspective
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Trigger.dev solves the boring-but-critical problem underneath most AI features: something has to run a multi-minute agent loop or a batch job reliably, with retries and observability, without a serverless function timing out at 10 or 60 seconds. Writing jobs as plain async TypeScript in your own repo — rather than a visual workflow builder — keeps automation logic in Git and code review, which is the main reason developers pick it over n8n or Zapier for anything beyond simple triggers.
It's Apache-2.0 licensed and genuinely self-hostable via Docker Compose or Kubernetes with no feature gating, which is unusual for a dev-tools company at this stage. The managed cloud starts free (20 concurrent runs, 1-day log retention) and scales through $10 and $50/month tiers before Enterprise SSO and SOC 2 reports. Reference customers like Supabase and Magic Patterns suggest it holds up in production, though it's still a smaller team than Inngest or Temporal if you need deep support.
What people say
Trigger.dev competes in a crowded background-jobs space (Inngest, Temporal, Zapier, n8n) on a specific pitch: write jobs as ordinary async TypeScript functions in your own codebase, with no execution timeout, rather than configuring a visual workflow or fighting serverless function limits. Independent commentary tends to agree on the differentiator — reviewers comparing it to Zapier and n8n note it's aimed at developers who want type safety and code-level control rather than a no-code canvas, and Product Hunt reviews specifically call out developer speed and practicality versus those no-code alternatives. One notable endorsement: the team behind Reloop described it as one of the better background-task experiences they'd used, citing completeness and reliability rather than any single flashy feature.
Production references are concrete rather than just logos on a page: Supabase, Magic Patterns and Flick.social are cited as running real workloads — retries, queuing, and concurrent operation handling — on top of it. That's a meaningfully different bar from a framework that only shows up in 'awesome-list' GitHub repos.
On licensing, Trigger.dev is genuinely open (Apache-2.0), and self-hosting via Docker Compose or Kubernetes removes the usual open-core feature gate — you get unlimited runs without a license key. That matters for teams wary of vendor lock-in on infrastructure-adjacent tooling.
Pricing on the managed cloud is straightforward: Free gives 20 concurrent runs, 5 team members and 1-day log retention on $5 of monthly credits; Hobby at $10/month bumps concurrency to 50 and retention to 7 days; Pro at $50/month is aimed at real production use — 200-plus concurrent runs, 30-day retention, dedicated Slack support and AWS PrivateLink; Enterprise adds custom log retention, RBAC, SOC 2 and penetration-test reports, and SSO, priced on request. Compute is metered on top of the credit allowance at $0.0000169 to $0.00068 per second depending on machine size, plus a small per-run invocation fee — worth modeling before committing to a tier if your jobs are compute-heavy rather than just numerous.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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