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Trigger.dev

by Trigger · Open source TypeScript platform for long-running tasks and AI workflows

73.3 — BenchRank score out of 100

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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

Pricing

Published plans from Trigger.dev’s own pricing page, in USD. Usage charges and add-ons may apply on top.

Trigger.dev pricing tiers, monthly rates in USD
Plan	Monthly	Includes
Free	Freeper month	$5/month free credits, 20 concurrent runs 5 team members, Dev and Prod environments 10 schedules, 1 day log retention Community support, 1 alert destination
Hobby	$10per month	$10/month credits, 50 concurrent runs Dev, Preview and Prod environments, 5 preview branches 100 schedules, 7 day log retention 3 alert destinations, HIPAA BAA add-on
Pro	$50per month	$50/month credits, 200+ concurrent runs (then $10/month per 50) 25+ team members, then $20/month per seat 30 day log retention, dedicated Slack support AWS PrivateLink, custom dashboards from 5
Enterprise	Contact sales	All Pro features plus custom log retention RBAC and single sign-on SOC 2 and penetration test reports Priority support and custom discounts

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support: 60 out of 100
API quality: 30 out of 100
Documentation: 80 out of 100
Agent friendliness: 97 out of 100
Pricing transparency: 100 out of 100
Changelog: 100 out of 100
Marketing site structure: 80 out of 100
Operational trust: 75 out of 100

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: 85 out of 100
Maintenance: 100 out of 100

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