Trigger.dev
An open-source platform for building durable AI agents with built-in task scheduling and streaming
- Also known as
- trigger-dev
Available worldwide
What is Trigger.dev?
A managed platform for creating AI workflows in TypeScript, featuring automatic retries, task queuing, durable execution with checkpointing, real-time streaming, comprehensive observability, and elastic scaling. Supports both cloud deployment and self-hosting via Docker or Kubernetes.
Trigger.dev 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. From $10/month for Hobby tier; Pro starts at $50/month with usage-based overage pricing.
Free
Free- team_members
- 5
- concurrent_tasks
- 20
- log_retention_days
- 1
- Dev and Prod environments
- Community support
- 1 day log retention
Hobby
- team_members
- 5
- concurrent_tasks
- 50
- log_retention_days
- 7
- Dev, Preview and Prod environments
- Community support
- 7 day log retention
Pro
- branches
- 20
- dashboards
- 5
- team_members
- 25
- concurrent_tasks
- 200
- events_per_month
- 1000
- log_retention_days
- 30
- Dev, Preview and Prod environments
- Dedicated Slack support
- 30 day log retention
Enterprise
Contact sales- All Pro plan features
- Custom log retention
- Priority support
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- SOC 2 report
- Penetration test report
- Single sign-on (SSO)
Add-ons
- HIPAA BAA (Business Associate Agreement)
What Trigger.dev 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
- Job / task queue
- Delivery guarantee
- At-least-once
- Ordering guarantee
- FIFO
- Durable replayable log
- ✓
- Message replay / rewind
- ✓
- Wire protocol
- -
- Kafka-protocol compatible
- ✗
- Partitioned horizontal scaling
- ✓
- Geo / cross-region replication
- ✗
- Consumer groups / competing consumers
- ✗
- Dead-letter queue
- ✗
- Managed cloud offering exists
- ✓
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- Built-in stream processing
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (7)
Independently observed- Slack→•
- WhatsApp→•
- Prisma
- OpenAI
- Resend
- Vercel
- GitHub
Trigger.dev FAQ
Common questions about Trigger.dev, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Trigger.dev?
A managed platform for creating AI workflows in TypeScript, featuring automatic retries, task queuing, durable execution with checkpointing, real-time streaming, comprehensive observability, and elastic scaling. Supports both cloud deployment and self-hosting via Docker or Kubernetes. It is indexed under Message Queues.
Source: https://trigger.dev/
Is Trigger.dev free?
Trigger.dev offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $10 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.
Source: https://trigger.dev/pricing
What platforms does Trigger.dev support?
We have confirmed browser-based access to Trigger.dev. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.
Source: https://trigger.dev/
Can Trigger.dev be self-hosted?
Yes. Trigger.dev can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.
Source: https://trigger.dev/
What does Trigger.dev integrate with?
We have confirmed 6 integrations for Trigger.dev, including Prisma, OpenAI, Resend, Vercel, GitHub and Slack. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.
Source: https://trigger.dev/
What security certifications does Trigger.dev have?
We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Trigger.dev. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Trigger.dev not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.
Source: https://trigger.dev/security
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Compare Trigger.dev
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 Trigger.dev, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 50 | 0.16 | 7.9 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 55 | 0.12 | 6.3 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.06 | 6.3 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 75 | 0.05 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.04 | 3.4 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 17 | 0.05 | 0.8 | ✓ |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Hosting: cloud · Ordering: fifo · Paradigm: job_queue · Message replay: Yes · Persistent log: Yes · Consumer groups: No | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-09-18 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-14 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Security
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