Trigger.dev
by Trigger · Open source TypeScript platform for long-running tasks and AI workflows
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Overview
Trigger.dev is an open source platform for writing background tasks and AI workflows in TypeScript. Task code lives in a trigger folder in your own repo, then is bundled and deployed to Trigger.dev's managed workers, running with no timeouts plus retries, queues, concurrency limits and atomic versioned deploys. A Realtime API streams run status and LLM responses to your frontend.
- Best for
- TypeScript teams offloading long-running background jobs and AI agent runs to managed infrastructure
- Pricing
- Free plan with $5/month credits, then Hobby at $10/month and Pro at $50/month with matching included credits, plus usage-based compute from $0.0000169/sec and $0.000025 per run invocation; Enterprise is custom.
- Runs on
- Self-hostedCLI
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- No timeouts, with automatic retries and checkpointing
- Apache 2.0 licensed and self-hostable
- Realtime API streams run status and LLM output to the frontend
- Charged only while tasks execute; long waits are checkpointed
Trade-offs
- Free plan stops running tasks once the $5 monthly credit is used
- Log retention is 1 day on Free and 7 days on Hobby; 30 days needs Pro
- Tasks are written in TypeScript; Python runs only via a build extension
- SSO, RBAC and SOC 2 report are Enterprise-only
How Trigger.dev markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Trigger.dev’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Build and deploy fully‑managed AI agents and workflows”
- Angle: AI-native
- Hero: Code snippet
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Trigger.dev’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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Where this comes from
The Trigger.dev pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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