Inngest alternatives

01 / Runtimes & workflows

Trigger.dev

Choose Trigger.dev when you want managed compute for long TypeScript tasks, no worker fleet, and you accept deploying task code onto their machines.

Pricing model. As of 2026-10-20: Free $0 with $5 usage credit. Hobby $10/mo with $10 credit. Pro $50/mo with $50 credit. Run fee $0.000025. Default small-1x machine $0.0000338/sec. Official 10-second example: $0.000363 per run. Pro concurrency add-on: $10/mo per 50 runs above 200. HIPAA BAA add-on $500/mo on Hobby and Pro.

02 / Runtimes & workflows

Temporal Cloud

Choose Temporal when you think in Workflows and Activities, need timers, signals, and queries, and will run Workers against a dedicated orchestration service.

Pricing model. As of 2026-10-20: Actions start at $50 per million. Developer (pay-as-you-go): $50/M at every volume, plus 10% of usage for support, plus storage. Business: greater of $500/mo or 10% of usage, includes 2.5M Actions; volume discounts apply to Actions beyond the allocation. Active and retained storage are billed per GBh. New pay-as-you-go sign-ups get $150 in credits for 90 days.

03 / Runtimes & workflows

Hatchet

Choose Hatchet when you want durable task orchestration with workers you control, Cloud or MIT self-hosting, and published per-task pricing that excludes retries. A Hatchet run and a Temporal Action are different billing units.

Pricing model. As of 2026-10-20, with a card on file: 1M task runs and 1M events free every month, then $30 per million runs and $5 per million events. Failed runs count; retries do not. Without a card: 2,000 runs and 2,000 events per day. Custom plans for 100M+ runs offer volume discounts that are not published.

04 / Runtimes & workflows

Upstash QStash

Choose QStash for serverless or edge HTTP handlers, scheduled calls, and fan-out to URLs without running Redis.

Pricing model. As of 2026-10-20: pay-as-you-go $1 per 100K messages. Free: 1,000 messages/day. Fixed plans: 1M messages/day for $180/mo, 10M/day for $420/mo. The pricing FAQ says each delivery attempt, including each retry, is billed as a message; the pricing markdown also says retries are free. Confirm with Upstash before budgeting retry-heavy workloads.

05 / Runtimes & workflows

Amazon SQS + Step Functions

Choose SQS when you are already on AWS, want a managed broker with an AWS SLA, and will write AWS-native workers.

Pricing model. As of 2026-10-20 (AWS Price List published 2026-09-11): SQS Standard in us-east-1 is $0.40 per million requests after 1M free requests per month; FIFO is $0.50 per million. Step Functions Standard is $0.000025 per state transition after 4,000 free per month. Express is $1 per million requests plus duration.

06 / Runtimes & workflows

Google Cloud Tasks

Choose Cloud Tasks when you are on Google Cloud and want a managed service to push HTTP tasks to your handlers.

Pricing model. As of 2026-10-20: first 1M billable operations per month free, then $0.40 per million. A billable operation is an API call or push delivery attempt, chunked at 32 KB. Regular network charges apply to HTTP targets.

07 / Runtimes & workflows

Cloudflare Queues

Choose Cloudflare Queues when your application runs on Workers and you want messages to stay on Cloudflare.

Pricing model. As of 2026-10-20: Workers Paid ($5/mo minimum) includes 1M queue operations per month, then $0.40 per million. Each write, read, and delete counts per 64 KB; typically 3 operations per message, and each retry adds a read. Workers Free includes 10,000 operations per day.

08 / Runtimes & workflows

Graphile Worker

Choose Graphile Worker when you want jobs in PostgreSQL next to your primary data, not in Redis.

Pricing model. As of 2026-10-20: open source (MIT), $0. Worker Pro $100/mo, or $25+/mo via GitHub Sponsors during the early-access launch offer.