# Trigger.dev vs WarpStream

**Leader by Vioscale score:** WarpStream

| Attribute | Trigger.dev | WarpStream |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 59.5 (74% (medium)) | 80.3 (73% (medium)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A cloud service that executes durable, serverless tasks and AI agents with built-in retry logic, observability, and automatic scaling. Code runs without timeouts on managed infrastructure, with state preserved across execution pauses and failures. | WarpStream is a Kafka-compatible streaming platform that eliminates local disks by using cloud object storage, enabling automatic scaling and reducing costs significantly compared to traditional Kafka. It maintains full protocol compatibility while simplifying operations through managed deployment in customer cloud accounts. |
| features.capabilities | `{"hosting":"cloud","ordering":"fifo","paradigm":"job_queue","message_replay":false,"persistent_log":true,"consumer_groups":false,"geo_replication":false,"kafka_compatible":false,"managed_offering":true,"dead_letter_queue":false,"stream_processing":true,"delivery_guarantee":"at_least_once","horizontal_scaling":true}` | `{"hosting":"cloud","ordering":"per_partition","paradigm":"log_stream","protocol":"Kafka","message_replay":true,"persistent_log":true,"consumer_groups":true,"geo_replication":true,"kafka_compatible":true,"managed_offering":true,"stream_processing":true,"delivery_guarantee":"at_least_once","horizontal_scaling":true}` |
| integrations.count | 5 | 12 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Prisma"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Resend"},{"name":"Vercel"},{"name":"GitHub"}]` | `[{"name":"Apache Kafka"},{"name":"Bento"},{"name":"RisingWave"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Materialize"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Schema Registry"},{"name":"Iceberg"},{"name":"Tigris"},{"name":"Protobuf"},{"name":"Avro"},{"name":"JSON"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free","features":["Dev and Prod environments","Community support","1 day log retention"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"team_members":"5","concurrent_tasks":"20","log_retention_days":"1"}},{"free":false,"name":"Hobby","summary":"$10/month","features":["Dev, Preview and Prod environments","Community support","7 day log retention"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"team_members":"5","concurrent_tasks":"50","log_retention_days":"7"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"From $50/month","features":["Dev, Preview and Prod environments","Dedicated Slack support","30 day log retention"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"50 concurrent tasks","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"branch","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"dashboard","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"1000 events","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"branches":"20","dashboards":"5","team_members":"25","concurrent_tasks":"200","events_per_month":"1000","log_retention_days":"30"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["All Pro plan features","Custom log retention","Priority support","Role-based access control (RBAC)","SOC 2 report","Penetration test report","Single sign-on (SSO)"],"contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"HIPAA BAA (Business Associate Agreement)"}],"summary":"Free tier available. From $10/month for Hobby tier; Pro starts at $50/month with usage-based overage pricing.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://trigger.dev/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T08:33:58.046Z","startingPrice":{"amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Dev","summary":"$100/month base + metered write throughput and cluster minutes","features":["Core functionality","99.9% SLA","mTLS"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":100,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":15,"unit":"min"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0345,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Development-grade cluster with basic functionality","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"retention":"7 days","partitions":"4,096"}},{"free":false,"name":"Fundamentals","summary":"$500/month base + metered usage","features":["Production functionality","99.9% SLA","Agent Groups","Cluster Recovery","mTLS","PrivateLink","Audit Logs","Schema Validation"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":500,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":15,"unit":"min"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.1725,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Production-grade cluster with standard SLA","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"partitions":"16,384"}},{"free":false,"name":"Pro","summary":"$1,500/month base + metered usage","features":["Advanced isolation","Multi-region replication","99.99% SLA","Lightning Topics","Topic Recovery","Lower Latency"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":1500,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GiB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":15,"unit":"min"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.52083,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Advanced cluster with high availability and multi-region replication","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"partitions":"50,000"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Contact sales for pricing","features":["99.999% SLA","Dedicated Control Plane Cell","Multi-Region HA Replication"],"description":"Custom enterprise deployment","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"partitions":"200,000+"}}],"summary":"From $100/month base + metered write throughput ($0.01-$0.003/GiB, tiered by volume) and storage. Free $400 non-expiring credits with no card required.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.warpstream.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T09:20:17.521Z","startingPrice":{"amount":0.01,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.9 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |

## Capabilities (Message Queues)

| Capability | Trigger.dev | WarpStream |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Messaging paradigm | Job / task queue | Log / streaming |
| **Correctness** |  |  |
| Delivery guarantee | At-least-once | At-least-once |
| Ordering guarantee | FIFO | Per-partition |
| **Durability** |  |  |
| Durable replayable log | ✓ | ✓ |
| Message replay / rewind | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Interop** |  |  |
| Wire protocol | - | Kafka |
| Kafka-protocol compatible | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Partitioned horizontal scaling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Geo / cross-region replication | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Consumption** |  |  |
| Consumer groups / competing consumers | ✗ | ✓ |
| Dead-letter queue | ✗ | - |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Managed cloud offering exists | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud only |
| **Processing** |  |  |
| Built-in stream processing | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T15:00:48.983Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*