Trigger.dev
Build and deploy fully-managed AI agents and workflows
- Also known as
- trigger-dev
What is Trigger.dev?
Trigger.dev is the platform for building AI workflows in TypeScript with long-running tasks, retries, queues, observability, and elastic scaling on managed infrastructure.
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 + Hobby at $10/month + Pro from $50/month. Compute and run invocation usage charges separate.
Free
Free- schedules
- 10
- team_members
- 5
- log_retention
- 1 day
- concurrent_runs
- 20
- alert_destinations
- 1
- realtime_connections
- 10
- Unlimited tasks
- Dev and Prod environments
- Preview branches
- Custom dashboards
- Community support
Hobby
- schedules
- 100
- team_members
- 5
- log_retention
- 7 days
- concurrent_runs
- 50
- alert_destinations
- 3
- realtime_connections
- 150
- Unlimited tasks
- Dev, Preview and Prod environments
- 5 preview branches
- 1 custom dashboard
- Community support
Pro
- schedules
- 1000+
- team_members
- 25+
- log_retention
- 30 days
- concurrent_runs
- 200+
- preview_branches
- 20+
- realtime_connections
- 1000+
- Unlimited tasks
- Dev, Preview and Prod environments
- 5+ custom dashboards
- Dedicated Slack support
- 100+ alert destinations
- AWS PrivateLink
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 add-on
- Compute (per-second machine pricing)$0.00 per second + $0.00 per second + $0.00 per second + $0.00 per second + $0.00 per second + $0.00 per second + $0.00 per second
- Run invocations$0.00 per run
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
- Per-key
- 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 + self-hosted
- Built-in stream processing
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (5)
Independently observed- Supabase
- Vercel AI SDK
- Infisical
- MCP Server
- webhooks
Trigger.dev alternatives
Other message queues we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Apache KafkaDistributed event streaming platform for high-performance data pipelines and streaming analyticslow · 26%
- NATSlow · 30%
- Temporalmedium · 59%
- RedpandaHigh-performance Kafka-compatible streaming platform for real-time data and AI agentslow · 45%
- RabbitMQlow · 26%
- WarpStream10x Cheaper Than Kafkamedium · 62%
The Vioscale 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 | 30.00 | 1500.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 55 | 22.00 | 1210.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 12.00 | 1200.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 12.00 | 973.8 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 8.00 | 640.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 22 | 16.00 | 358.1 | ✓ |
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.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"hosting":"both","ordering":"per_key","paradigm":"job_queue","message_replay":true,"persistent_log":true,"consumer_groups":true,"kafka_compatible":false,"managed_offering":true,"stream_processing":true,"delivery_guarantee":"at_least_once","horizontal_scaling":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 5 | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |