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Hatchet vs Zeplo

SEPT 2026 audit

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

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 22 criteria comparedSources last checked

The short answer

Choose Hatchet if…

Task workloads that want a countable unit and no plan fee: 1M task runs and 1M events free each month with a card on file, then $30 per million runs, with 10,000 concurrent worker slots before any contract.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose Zeplo if…

Turning an HTTP endpoint into a queued, retried job without running a consumer — and keeping a month of logs while doing it, which nothing else here offers on a free plan.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • Hatchet: You want a published uptime percentage or long run history: SLAs come only on the quoted Custom plan, and history is kept 7 days with a card on file (1 day without) unless you move to Custom.
  • Zeplo: The free tier's overage is $20 per 100,000 requests, twenty times the Company plan's rate, so staying free past 500 requests is the most expensive way to use it.

Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: Hatchet alternatives · Zeplo alternatives

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

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionHatchetZeplo
Pricing
Free tierYesYes
Kind of free offerFree tierFree tier
What the free plan includesTwo levels on the free Pay-as-you-go plan. No card: 2,000 task runs and 2,000 events a day. Card on file: 1M task runs and 1M events a month included, then $30 and $5 per million.500 requests a month, described as free forever, for a single developer with 30-day log retention.
Entry paid planNo plan fee: Pay-as-you-go is $0 a month and bills only usage past the free million runs and events ($30 per million runs). Custom, for 100M+ runs a month or enterprise features, is priced by conversation.$39/month for Company, including 1,000,000 requests and three team members. Additional members are $15 each.
Pricing modelUsage-based with no plan fees: 1M task runs and 1M events free every month, then $30 per million runs and $5 per million events, with volume pricing at 100M+ runs a month on Custom. Users past 50 are $10 each.Per HTTP request rather than per message or per execution, with unlimited jobs on every tier and team size as a separate axis — three members included on Company, $15 for each beyond.
Infrastructure
Regions3 live AWS regions (Oregon, N. Virginia, Ireland) plus Sydney in private beta; control plane in aws-us-west-2.Hosted on Google Cloud Platform; no selectable region is offered and data may be transferred between countries.
Queues
Included per month1M task runs and 1M events a month on Pay-as-you-go with a card on file, then $30 per million runs and $5 per million events. Without a card: 2,000 task runs and 2,000 events a day.500 requests free, then $20 per 100,000. The Company plan includes 1,000,000 requests and charges $10 per million beyond — five times cheaper per request than the free plan's overage rate.
Maximum message size
4 MB default maximum payload size for a task's input or output between worker and Hatchet engine.
256 KB inline request body (unlimited via S3 offload); plan payload caps are 64 KB on Developer and 1 MB on Company.
Message retentionRun history, logs and traces stay queryable for 1 day on Pay-as-you-go without a card, 7 days with a card on file, and 90+ days on Custom. This is dashboard and API history, not how long an undelivered task waits in the queue, so no magnitude is recorded.30 days of log retention on every plan — free, Company and Enterprise alike. The longest window in this category by a wide margin.
Concurrency2,000 worker slots (tasks running at once, totalled across all workers) on Pay-as-you-go without a card, 10,000 with a card on file; Custom gets dedicated capacity. No requests-per-second ceiling is published.API rate limit rather than a concurrency figure: 100 requests/min on Developer (Free) and 2,000 requests/min on Company ($39/mo).
Dead letter queue
Not supported — No built-in DLQ; failed task instances persist in the dashboard for manual analysis and retry.
Limited — Dead-letter handling is a webhook fired on permanently failed requests, not a separate queue you consume.
Compliance
GDPR / data residency
GDPR compliant per the security docs; EU data plane available in aws-eu-west-1 (Ireland).
Privacy policy permits storage, processing and transfer of personal information between any of the countries in which Zeplo operates. zeplo.io policy, last updated February 7, 2022; the newer v2.zeplo.io policy is silent on transfers.
Encryption at restData stored in Hatchet Cloud is encrypted at rest; API and worker traffic encrypted with TLS in transit.Privacy policy states industry-standard measures including encryption in transit (TLS), encryption at rest, and access controls. v2.zeplo.io policy, last updated February 21, 2026; no cipher or key-management detail published.
Role-based access controlHierarchical tenant roles OWNER, ADMIN, MEMBER, VIEWER plus organization roles; payload visibility can be restricted per member.Workspaces support multiple members with role-based access; roles are admin, member and viewer. Team invites are managed in the dashboard under Settings, Team; the API invite endpoint takes the same three roles.
Dedicated infrastructure
Dedicated capacity, multi-region, and self-hosted or bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) deployment on the Custom plan (talk to an engineer).
Not listed on the Developer or Company plans; the pricing page says to contact sales for custom volume, SLAs or dedicated infrastructure. From the "Need more?" block under the Developer (free) and Company ($39/mo) plan cards.

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.

What the free plan includes

Hatchet
Two levels on the free Pay-as-you-go plan. No card: 2,000 task runs and 2,000 events a day. Card on file: 1M task runs and 1M events a month included, then $30 and $5 per million.
Zeplo
500 requests a month, described as free forever, for a single developer with 30-day log retention.
Sources (2) →
  • Hatchet Pricing ↗

    “Pay-as-you-go No card Pay-as-you-go Card on file Custom [...] 2,000/day 1M/mo included then $30/M [...] 2,000/day 1M/mo included then $5/M”

    Read 2026-09-27 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Zeplo Pricing ↗

    “You can try our developer plan, which includes 500 free requests every month for free forever.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing · Report a correction

Entry paid plan

Hatchet
No plan fee: Pay-as-you-go is $0 a month and bills only usage past the free million runs and events ($30 per million runs). Custom, for 100M+ runs a month or enterprise features, is priced by conversation.
Zeplo
$39/month for Company, including 1,000,000 requests and three team members. Additional members are $15 each.
Sources (2) →
  • Hatchet Pricing ↗

    “Pay-as-you-go $0 to start [...] No surprise bills. No plan fees. You pay $30 per million runs, only after your free million, with volume pricing at 100M+ runs a month.”

    Read 2026-09-27 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Pricing — Zeplo ↗

    “Company [...] $39 /month 1M requests included $10 / million requests Team size: 3 users [...] Addition team members $15 $15 $15”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Pricing model

Hatchet
Usage-based with no plan fees: 1M task runs and 1M events free every month, then $30 per million runs and $5 per million events, with volume pricing at 100M+ runs a month on Custom. Users past 50 are $10 each.
Zeplo
Per HTTP request rather than per message or per execution, with unlimited jobs on every tier and team size as a separate axis — three members included on Company, $15 for each beyond.
Sources (2) →
  • Hatchet Pricing ↗

    “1M runs and 1M events free, every month Then $30 per million runs, $5 per million events [...] No surprise bills. No plan fees. You pay $30 per million runs, only after your free million, with volume pricing at 100M+ runs a month. [...] Users 50 included, then $10/user”

    Read 2026-09-27 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Pricing — Zeplo ↗

    “Jobs Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Included team members 1 3 Custom Addition team members $15 $15 $15 Log retention 30 days 30 days 30 days”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Regions

Hatchet
3 live AWS regions (Oregon, N. Virginia, Ireland) plus Sydney in private beta; control plane in aws-us-west-2.
Zeplo
Hosted on Google Cloud Platform; no selectable region is offered and data may be transferred between countries.
Sources (2) →
  • Region Availability - Hatchet Documentation ↗

    “aws-us-west-2 Oregon (US) Live aws-us-east-1 N. Virginia (US) Live aws-eu-west-1 Ireland Live aws-ap-southeast-2 Sydney Private Beta”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

  • Privacy Policy - Zeplo ↗

    “Zeplo currently uses the following services to store your information: Google Cloud Platform Cross-border data transfers Information that Zeplo collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

Included per month

Hatchet
1M task runs and 1M events a month on Pay-as-you-go with a card on file, then $30 per million runs and $5 per million events. Without a card: 2,000 task runs and 2,000 events a day.
Zeplo
500 requests free, then $20 per 100,000. The Company plan includes 1,000,000 requests and charges $10 per million beyond — five times cheaper per request than the free plan's overage rate.
Sources (2) →
  • Hatchet Pricing ↗

    “1M runs and 1M events free, every month Then $30 per million runs, $5 per million events [...] 2,000/day 1M/mo included then $30/M [...] 2,000/day 1M/mo included then $5/M”

    Read 2026-09-27 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Pricing — Zeplo ↗

    “Free 500 requests included $20 / 100k requests [...] $39 /month 1M requests included $10 / million requests”

    Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing · Report a correction

Maximum message size

Hatchet

4 MB default maximum payload size for a task's input or output between worker and Hatchet engine.

Zeplo

256 KB inline request body (unlimited via S3 offload); plan payload caps are 64 KB on Developer and 1 MB on Company.

Sources (2) →

Message retention

Hatchet
Run history, logs and traces stay queryable for 1 day on Pay-as-you-go without a card, 7 days with a card on file, and 90+ days on Custom. This is dashboard and API history, not how long an undelivered task waits in the queue, so no magnitude is recorded.
Zeplo
30 days of log retention on every plan — free, Company and Enterprise alike. The longest window in this category by a wide margin.
Sources (2) →

Concurrency

Hatchet
2,000 worker slots (tasks running at once, totalled across all workers) on Pay-as-you-go without a card, 10,000 with a card on file; Custom gets dedicated capacity. No requests-per-second ceiling is published.
Zeplo
API rate limit rather than a concurrency figure: 100 requests/min on Developer (Free) and 2,000 requests/min on Company ($39/mo).
Sources (2) →
  • Hatchet Pricing ↗

    “Worker slots Each slot runs one task at a time. A worker with 100 slots can run 100 tasks concurrently. The limit is the total across all workers. 2,000 10,000 Dedicated capacity”

    Read 2026-09-27 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Limits - Zeplo docs ↗

    “Plan API rate limit Developer (Free) 100 requests/min Company ($39/mo) 2,000 requests/min”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

Dead letter queue

Hatchet
Not supported — No built-in DLQ; failed task instances persist in the dashboard for manual analysis and retry.
Zeplo
Limited — Dead-letter handling is a webhook fired on permanently failed requests, not a separate queue you consume.
Sources (2) →

GDPR / data residency

Hatchet
GDPR compliant per the security docs; EU data plane available in aws-eu-west-1 (Ireland).
Zeplo
Privacy policy permits storage, processing and transfer of personal information between any of the countries in which Zeplo operates. zeplo.io policy, last updated February 7, 2022; the newer v2.zeplo.io policy is silent on transfers.
Sources (2) →
  • Security - Hatchet Documentation ↗

    “Hatchet is SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and GDPR compliant.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official docs · Report a correction

  • Zeplo Privacy ↗

    “Information that Zeplo collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which Zeplo operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy. [...] You agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.”

    Read 2026-09-13 · official site · Report a correction

Encryption at rest

Hatchet
Data stored in Hatchet Cloud is encrypted at rest; API and worker traffic encrypted with TLS in transit.
Zeplo
Privacy policy states industry-standard measures including encryption in transit (TLS), encryption at rest, and access controls. v2.zeplo.io policy, last updated February 21, 2026; no cipher or key-management detail published.
Sources (2) →

Role-based access control

Hatchet
Hierarchical tenant roles OWNER, ADMIN, MEMBER, VIEWER plus organization roles; payload visibility can be restricted per member.
Zeplo
Workspaces support multiple members with role-based access; roles are admin, member and viewer. Team invites are managed in the dashboard under Settings, Team; the API invite endpoint takes the same three roles.
Sources (2) →

Dedicated infrastructure

Hatchet
Dedicated capacity, multi-region, and self-hosted or bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) deployment on the Custom plan (talk to an engineer).
Zeplo
Not listed on the Developer or Company plans; the pricing page says to contact sales for custom volume, SLAs or dedicated infrastructure. From the "Need more?" block under the Developer (free) and Company ($39/mo) plan cards.
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 — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.

Credit card to startHatchet: No
When the free offer endsZeplo: Never — 500 requests a month, free forever.
Uptime SLAHatchet: Latency guarantees and SLAs on the Custom plan, sold by contract (talk to an engineer). No percentage is published on the pricing page.
Maximum delayZeplo: 30 days (2,592,000 seconds) maximum delay_seconds per request.
SOC 2Hatchet: SOC 2 Type II compliant; reports available through the Hatchet Trust Center.
HIPAAHatchet: HIPAA compliant per the security docs; the Scale plan ($1,000/mo) lists audit logs and HIPAA.
Customer-managed keysHatchet: Documented SDK middleware pattern encrypts task inputs and outputs before they reach the Hatchet server; the encryption key stays in the worker environment.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: Hatchet or Zeplo?

Hatchet: No plan fee: Pay-as-you-go is $0 a month and bills only usage past the free million runs and events ($30 per million runs). Custom, for 100M+ runs a month or enterprise features, is priced by conversation.

Zeplo: $39/month for Company, including 1,000,000 requests and three team members. Additional members are $15 each.

Should I choose Hatchet or Zeplo?

Pick Hatchet if Task workloads that want a countable unit and no plan fee: 1M task runs and 1M events free each month with a card on file, then $30 per million runs, with 10,000 concurrent worker slots before any contract.

Pick Zeplo if Turning an HTTP endpoint into a queued, retried job without running a consumer — and keeping a month of logs while doing it, which nothing else here offers on a free plan.

Provider pages

HatchetDurable task queue billed per task run, with a free tier, published throughput limits and a self-hosted option.ZeploHTTP request queue priced per request, with 30-day log retention on every plan including free.

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