Hatchet vs Zeplo
SEPT 2026 auditA comparison of Hatchet and Zeplo built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.
The short answer
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
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: 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.
- 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.
6 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.
Pick the criteria you care about. The chart counts how many of them lean toward each provider — the same read as scanning the bars below, just totalled for the ones you chose.
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At a glance.
| Criterion | Hatchet | Zeplo |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Entry paid plan | $500/month for Team, which adds users, tenants, retention and throughput on top of usage. Scale is $1,000/month. | $39/month for Company, including 1,000,000 requests and three team members. Additional members are $15 each. |
| Pricing model | Usage-first: every plan is "free + usage" or "$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. | 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 | ||
| Regions | 3 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 month | 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. | 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. |
| Message retention | 3 days on the Team plan, stated alongside a 500 requests-per-second throughput ceiling. | 30 days of log retention on every plan — free, Company and Enterprise alike. The longest window in this category by a wide margin. |
| Concurrency | 500 requests per second of throughput on Team; higher tiers are not published as a number. | API rate limit rather than a concurrency figure: 100 requests/min on Developer (Free) and 2,000 requests/min on Company ($39/mo). |
Where they differ.
Entry paid plan
- Hatchet
- $500/month for Team, which adds users, tenants, retention and throughput on top of usage. Scale is $1,000/month.
- Zeplo
- $39/month for Company, including 1,000,000 requests and three team members. Additional members are $15 each.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Hatchet ↗
“Team $500 /mo + usage Everything in Developer, plus: 10 users & 5 tenants 3-day retention 500 RPS throughput [...] Scale $1,000 /mo + usage”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- Pricing — Zeplo ↗
“Company [...] $39 /month 1M requests included $10 / million requests Team size: 3 users [...] Addition team members $15 $15 $15”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Pricing model
- Hatchet
- Usage-first: every plan is "free + usage" or "$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.
- 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) →Sources ↓
- 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
- 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
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) →Sources ↓
- 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
- 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
Included per month
- 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.
- 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) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Hatchet ↗
“Developer Free + usage $10 per 1M task runs First 100,000 runs included”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- Pricing — Zeplo ↗
“Free 500 requests included $20 / 100k requests [...] $39 /month 1M requests included $10 / million requests”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Message retention
3 days on the Team plan, stated alongside a 500 requests-per-second throughput ceiling.
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) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Hatchet ↗
“10 users & 5 tenants 3-day retention 500 RPS throughput”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- Pricing — Zeplo ↗
“Log retention 30 days 30 days 30 days”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Concurrency
- Hatchet
- 500 requests per second of throughput on Team; higher tiers are not published as a number.
- 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) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Hatchet ↗
“3-day retention 500 RPS throughput See all features”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
- 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
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.
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.
Questions this comparison answers.
Entry paid plan: Hatchet or Zeplo?
Hatchet: $500/month for Team, which adds users, tenants, retention and throughput on top of usage. Scale is $1,000/month.
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 — 100,000 runs free and $10 per million is the least ambiguous pricing in this category.
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.