Inngest
by Inngest · Durable execution for background jobs, workflows and AI agents
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Overview
Inngest runs durable functions: you wrap existing code in step.run() so each step retries independently and state persists across invocations, letting runs pause and resume. It adds concurrency limits, throttling, batching, scheduling and event fan-out, plus step-level traces, metrics and evaluation scores. Functions deploy inside your own app on serverless or traditional infrastructure.
- Best for
- Teams adding retries, flow control and step-level tracing to background jobs and AI agents.
- Pricing
- Free Hobby tier with 50k executions a month, Pro from $99/month with metered usage up to 20M executions, and custom Enterprise pricing on request.
- Runs on
- WebSelf-hostedCLI
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Durability written in code with step.run(), no queues or workers
- Rate limits, per-tenant concurrency and throttling built in
- Open-source core that can be self-hosted instead of the cloud
- SOC 2 Type II, SSO/SAML, E2E encryption, HIPAA BAA available
Trade-offs
- Trace and log history is 24 hours on Hobby, 7 days on Pro
- SAML, RBAC and audit trails only on the Enterprise plan
- Every step counts as an execution, so cost scales with step count
- Add-ons stack: $25 per 25 concurrency, $300 advanced observability
How Inngest markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Inngest’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Unbreakable Agents. Invisible Infra.”
- Angle: Outcome / benefit-led
- Hero: Code snippet
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Inngest’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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