Hatchet
Durable task queue billed per task run, with a free tier, published throughput limits and a self-hosted option.
- Queues and background jobs
- Yes
- $500/month for Team, which adds users, tenants, retention and throughput on top of usage. Scale is $1,000/month.
- Not documented
Who it suits.
Task workloads that want a countable unit — 100,000 runs free and $10 per million is the least ambiguous pricing in this category.
Consider something else if…
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.
Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved
What the documentation says.
Each value below links to the page it was read from, with the sentence it came from. Criteria Hatchet does not publish are not listed.
Pricing
Free tier
Yes
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Hatchet ↗
“Developer Free + usage $10 per 1M task runs First 100,000 runs included [...] Get Started for Free No credit card required”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Entry paid plan
$500/month for Team, which adds users, tenants, retention and throughput on top of usage. Scale is $1,000/month.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Hatchet ↗
“Team $500 /mo + usage Everything in Developer, plus: 10 users & 5 tenants 3-day retention 500 RPS throughput [...] Scale $1,000 /mo + usage”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Pricing model
Usage-first: every plan is "free + usage" or "$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.
Sources (1) →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
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.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Hatchet ↗
“Developer Free + usage $10 per 1M task runs First 100,000 runs included”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Message retention
3 days on the Team plan, stated alongside a 500 requests-per-second throughput ceiling.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Hatchet ↗
“10 users & 5 tenants 3-day retention 500 RPS throughput”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Concurrency
500 requests per second of throughput on Team; higher tiers are not published as a number.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Pricing — Hatchet ↗
“3-day retention 500 RPS throughput See all features”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.