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Azure Queue Storage vs Hatchet

SEPT 2026 audit

A comparison of Azure Queue Storage and Hatchet built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Updated 17 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

Choose Azure Queue Storage if…

Azure-resident systems that want a queue billed like storage — operations plus depth, no plan to choose and no capacity to provision.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose Hatchet if…

Task workloads that want a countable unit — 100,000 runs free and $10 per million is the least ambiguous pricing in this category.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • Azure Queue Storage: Queued messages are billed as stored data, so a backlog costs money by the gigabyte-month, and there is no free allowance at all where SQS gives a million requests a month.
  • Hatchet: The jump from free to the first paid tier is $500 a month, which buys retention and throughput rather than volume, so a small production workload pays a lot for features it may not need.

5 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionAzure Queue StorageHatchet
Pricing
Pricing modelPer 10,000 operations plus stored data, with the rate set by redundancy: LRS Class 1 operations are $0.004 per 10,000, ZRS and GRS cost more for the same call. There is no plan fee and no included allowance.Usage-first: every plan is "free + usage" or "$N/mo + usage" at $10 per million task runs, with the plan fee buying users, tenants, retention and throughput rather than volume. Self-hosting is offered with support on the enterprise tier.
Queues
Included per monthNone included — every operation is billed. Class 1 operations are $0.004 per 10,000 on LRS in East US, which is $0.40 per million, matching Amazon SQS's standard rate exactly.100,000 task runs included free, then $10 per million. The cleanest per-unit rate in this category — Hatchet counts task runs where Cloudflare counts 64 KB operations and Inngest counts steps.
Message retentionMessages in the queue are billed as stored data at $0.045 per GB-month on LRS, rather than granted as a retention window. Azure charges for depth, not for time.3 days on the Team plan, stated alongside a 500 requests-per-second throughput ceiling.
Compliance
SOC 2Listed among Azure's compliance offerings (SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.SOC 2 Type II compliant; reports available through the Hatchet Trust Center.
HIPAAListed among Azure's compliance offerings (HIPAA) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.HIPAA compliant per the security docs; the Scale plan ($1,000/mo) lists audit logs and HIPAA.

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Pricing model

Azure Queue Storage
Per 10,000 operations plus stored data, with the rate set by redundancy: LRS Class 1 operations are $0.004 per 10,000, ZRS and GRS cost more for the same call. There is no plan fee and no included allowance.
Hatchet
Usage-first: every plan is "free + usage" or "$N/mo + usage" at $10 per million task runs, with the plan fee buying users, tenants, retention and throughput rather than volume. Self-hosting is offered with support on the enterprise tier.
Sources (2) →
  • Azure Retail Prices API — Queues v2, eastus ↗

    “"LRS Class 1 Operations", "10K", 0.004 [...] "ZRS Class 2 Operations", "10K", 0.004 [...] "GRS Class 1 Operations", "10K", 0.008”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

  • Pricing — Hatchet ↗

    “Developer Free + usage $10 per 1M task runs [...] Team $500 /mo + usage [...] SSO Audit logging Bring your own cloud Self-host support Custom SLAs”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing

Included per month

Azure Queue Storage
None included — every operation is billed. Class 1 operations are $0.004 per 10,000 on LRS in East US, which is $0.40 per million, matching Amazon SQS's standard rate exactly.
Hatchet
100,000 task runs included free, then $10 per million. The cleanest per-unit rate in this category — Hatchet counts task runs where Cloudflare counts 64 KB operations and Inngest counts steps.
Sources (2) →

Message retention

Azure Queue Storage
Messages in the queue are billed as stored data at $0.045 per GB-month on LRS, rather than granted as a retention window. Azure charges for depth, not for time.
Hatchet
3 days on the Team plan, stated alongside a 500 requests-per-second throughput ceiling.
Sources (2) →

SOC 2

Azure Queue Storage
Listed among Azure's compliance offerings (SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.
Hatchet
SOC 2 Type II compliant; reports available through the Hatchet Trust Center.
Sources (2) →

HIPAA

Azure Queue Storage
Listed among Azure's compliance offerings (HIPAA) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.
Hatchet
HIPAA compliant per the security docs; the Scale plan ($1,000/mo) lists audit logs and HIPAA.
Sources (2) →

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03.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing.

Free tierHatchet: Yes
Entry paid planHatchet: $500/month for Team, which adds users, tenants, retention and throughput on top of usage. Scale is $1,000/month.
RegionsHatchet: 3 live AWS regions (Oregon, N. Virginia, Ireland) plus Sydney in private beta; control plane in aws-us-west-2.
Maximum message sizeAzure Queue Storage: 64 KB per message. A queue may hold millions of messages, bounded only by the storage account's capacity rather than a queue-level ceiling.
Maximum delayAzure Queue Storage: Time-to-live defaults to seven days and can be set to any positive number, or to -1 for a message that never expires — the only queue here with an unbounded option.
ConcurrencyHatchet: 500 requests per second of throughput on Team; higher tiers are not published as a number.
ISO 27001Azure Queue Storage: Listed among Azure's compliance offerings (ISO 27001) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.
GDPR / data residencyHatchet: GDPR compliant per the security docs; EU data plane available in aws-eu-west-1 (Ireland).
PCI DSSAzure Queue Storage: Listed among Azure's compliance offerings (PCI DSS) on Microsoft's own compliance documentation — a platform-wide list, not scoped to this specific service.
Encryption at restHatchet: Data stored in Hatchet Cloud is encrypted at rest; API and worker traffic encrypted with TLS in transit.
Role-based access controlHatchet: Hierarchical tenant roles OWNER, ADMIN, MEMBER, VIEWER plus organization roles; payload visibility can be restricted per member.
Dedicated infrastructureHatchet: Bring-your-own-cloud and self-host support on the Enterprise plan (contact sales).
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Should I choose Azure Queue Storage or Hatchet?

Pick Azure Queue Storage if Azure-resident systems that want a queue billed like storage — operations plus depth, no plan to choose and no capacity to provision.

Pick Hatchet if Task workloads that want a countable unit — 100,000 runs free and $10 per million is the least ambiguous pricing in this category.

Provider pages

Azure Queue StorageMicrosoft's managed queue, billed per 10,000 operations with queued messages charged as stored data.HatchetDurable task queue billed per task run, with a free tier, published throughput limits and a self-hosted option.

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