Inngest
A managed platform for building reliable workflows and AI agents without managing infrastructure
- Also known as
- inngest
What is Inngest?
A workflow and AI orchestration service that executes reliable background jobs and multi-step workflows with automatic retries, built-in deduplication, and native observability, available as a managed cloud service or self-hosted.
Inngest pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier available. Pro from $99/mo + metered usage.
Hobby
FreeFor individual developers and small projects getting started with durable execution.
- users
- 3
- events
- 500k/mo
- scores
- 10K
- workers
- 3
- span_data
- 500 MB
- executions
- 50k/mo
- queue_depth
- 100k
- realtime_connections
- 50
- concurrent_executions
- 5
- 50k executions
- 5 concurrent executions
- 500 MB span data ingested
- 10K scores
- 500k events ingested
- 100k queue depth
- 50 realtime connections
- Basic tracing, metrics, and alerts
- 3 users
- 3 workers
- Unlimited serverless workers
Pro
For growing teams building production-ready workflows with increased scale and reliability.
- users
- 15
- events
- 5M+/mo
- scores
- 50K
- workers
- 20
- span_data
- 5 GB
- executions
- 1M + pay as you go up to 20M
- queue_depth
- 1M+
- realtime_connections
- 1000
- concurrent_executions
- 100+
- 1M executions included
- Pay as you go up to 20M
- 100+ concurrent executions
- 5 GB span data ingested
- 50K scores
- 5M+ events ingested
- 1M+ queue depth
- 1000 realtime connections
- Granular tracing, metrics, alerts + 7 day trace retention
- Increased throughput
- 15 users
- 20 workers
- Unlimited serverless workers
Enterprise
Contact salesFor organizations running critical workflows at scale with advanced security, support, and customization.
- Custom executions
- Custom concurrent executions
- Custom span data ingested
- Custom scores
- Custom events ingested
- Custom queue depth
- Custom realtime connections
- Advanced tracing, metrics, alerts + 90 day trace retention
- Dedicated Slack channel
- SAML, RBAC, audit trails
Add-ons
- HIPAA BAAs
- Advanced observability$300 one-time
What Inngest does
The capabilities that matter for message queues, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Messaging paradigm
- Durable execution
- Delivery guarantee
- At-least-once
- Ordering guarantee
- -
- Durable replayable log
- ✓
- Message replay / rewind
- ✓
- Wire protocol
- HTTPS
- Kafka-protocol compatible
- ✗
- Partitioned horizontal scaling
- ✓
- Geo / cross-region replication
- -
- Consumer groups / competing consumers
- ✗
- Dead-letter queue
- -
- Managed cloud offering exists
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud + self-hosted
- Built-in stream processing
- ✗
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- Self-hosted
Integrations (6)
Independently observed- PostgreSQL•
- Datadog
- Vercel
- OpenAI
- Discord
- Deno
Security & compliance
Known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 in the last 12 months) sourcea count reflects scale & disclosure, not quality
Inngest FAQ
Common questions about Inngest, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Inngest?
Provides an execution layer that automatically handles durability, retries, and state management for background jobs, scheduled tasks, and AI workflows through code-based function definitions. It is indexed under Message Queues.
Source: https://www.inngest.com/
Is Inngest free to use?
Inngest is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. A commercial or hosted edition starts at $0.50. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://www.inngest.com/
What platforms does Inngest support?
Inngest supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.
Source: https://www.inngest.com/
Can Inngest be self-hosted?
Yes. Inngest can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://www.inngest.com/
What does Inngest integrate with?
We have confirmed 5 integrations for Inngest, including Datadog, Vercel, OpenAI, Discord and Deno. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://www.inngest.com/
What security certifications does Inngest have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and HIPAA for Inngest. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Inngest not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://www.inngest.com/
Is Inngest open source?
Yes. Inngest is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.
Inngest alternatives
Other message queues we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Confluent CloudA fully managed, serverless cloud platform for Apache Kafka enabling real-time data streaming, processing, and integration at any scalemedium · 73%
- WarpStreamA Kafka-compatible streaming platform that significantly reduces costs and operational complexity by storing data in object storage instead of local disksmedium · 73%
- TemporalA platform for building reliable, long-running applications with automatic state management and fault tolerance.high · 76%
- NATSlow · 47%
- RabbitMQA unified messaging and streaming broker for distributed application communicationlow · 47%
- RedpandaA fast, developer-friendly streaming data platform that works with Apache Kafka without ZooKeeper or Javamedium · 59%
Compare Inngest
Side by side against other message queues, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Inngest, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Package downloads | 78 | 0.14 | 10.6 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 55 | 0.12 | 6.3 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.06 | 6.3 | ✓ |
| Development activity | 61 | 0.09 | 5.7 | ✓ |
| Release cadence | 99 | 0.05 | 5.1 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 0.06 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 22 | 0.08 | 1.9 | ✓ |
| Stars | 71 | 0.03 | 1.8 | ✓ |
| Dependent projects | 8 | 0.06 | 0.5 | ✓ |
| Security score | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Developer Q&A activity | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 86 | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 65% |
Adoption
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 7 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Hosting: both · Paradigm: durable_exec · Protocol: HTTPS · Message replay: Yes · Persistent log: Yes · Consumer groups: No | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 5 | mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | Go | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 85% |
Pricing
Release
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Hipaa | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-03 · 75% |
| Soc2 | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
| Disclosure policy | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60% |
| Vulnerabilities | Count: 0 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=npm&package_name=inngest-cli&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 0 | highsource · 2026-09-10 · 90% |
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