Trigger.dev

Open-source TypeScript background jobs

Free tier + paidAutomation & background jobstrigger.dev

What it is

Write background tasks as plain TypeScript functions inside your repo; the SDK handles queueing, retries, checkpointing and long-running execution with no timeouts. Apache-2.0 licensed and self-hostable. Realtime hooks stream run status straight into a React UI.

Why it earns a slot

The obvious choice for a Next.js app that needs a job to run for ten minutes when Vercel functions cap out. npx trigger.dev@latest dev gives local development against production infrastructure with almost no config.

Know before you commit

Billing is per second of compute, so a task idling on a slow API still bills unless you use the wait primitives. The free tier keeps logs for only one day, which makes debugging yesterday's failure impossible.

Getting started

npx trigger.dev@latest init

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Pricing snapshot

Free: $5 monthly compute credits, 20 concurrent runs, 1-day log retention. Hobby $10/mo, Pro $50/mo (200+ concurrent). Compute $0.0000169 to $0.00068 per second plus $0.25 per 10,000 runs.

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Evaluate Trigger.dev (https://trigger.dev) for this project, then use it only if it fits what we are already building.
Context: Open-source TypeScript background jobs. Write background tasks as plain TypeScript functions inside your repo; the SDK handles queueing, retries, checkpointing and long-running execution with no timeouts. Apache-2.0 licensed and self-hostable. Realtime hooks stream run status straight into a React UI.
Reviewer notes (general, not written for this codebase): The obvious choice for a Next.js app that needs a job to run for ten minutes when Vercel functions cap out. npx trigger.dev@latest dev gives local development against production infrastructure with almost no config.
Watch out for: Billing is per second of compute, so a task idling on a slow API still bills unless you use the wait primitives. The free tier keeps logs for only one day, which makes debugging yesterday's failure impossible.
Pricing: Free: $5 monthly compute credits, 20 concurrent runs, 1-day log retention. Hobby $10/mo, Pro $50/mo (200+ concurrent). Compute $0.0000169 to $0.00068 per second plus $0.25 per 10,000 runs.
Setup: npx trigger.dev@latest init
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