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Queues and background jobs · 9 alternatives · Trigger.dev iScore 72 (#2/10)

Every queues and background jobs provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Trigger.dev's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Trigger.dev's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.

Ranked by iScore
  1. Amazon SQSEntry paid plan: No paid plan or minimum fee; billed per request after the free 1 million requests a month.74#1/10
  2. Google Cloud Pub/SubPricing model: Three meters: throughput at $40 per TiB counting both publish and subscribe, storage at $…71#3/10
  3. Upstash QStashPricing model: Per message rather than per operation, metered against a daily ceiling on the free plan a…71#4/10
  4. Cloudflare QueuesPricing model: Billed per operation, not per message: one operation per 64 KB written, read or deleted,…70#5/10
  5. HatchetEntry paid plan: No plan fee: Pay-as-you-go is $0 a month and bills only usage past the free million runs…69#6/10
  6. ZeploEntry paid plan: $39/month for Company, including 1,000,000 requests and three team members. Additional me…67#7/10
  7. InngestEntry paid plan: $99/month for Pro, described as a starting price with usage above the included allowance…62#8/10
  8. TemporalFree tier: No vs Yes · Kind of free offer: Free credit vs Free tier57#9/10
  9. Azure Queue StorageFree tier: No vs Yes · Kind of free offer: Free credit vs Free tier54#10/10

Where Trigger.dev stands against these 9

Trigger.dev's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.

Free tier
Yes. 7 of the 9 alternatives that document it have one: Amazon SQS, Cloudflare Queues, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Hatchet, Inngest, Upstash QStash and 1 more.
Entry paid plan
$10/month for Hobby, which includes $10 of credits; Pro is $50/month including $50 of creditsCheapest of the 3 that document it. Next: Zeplo — $39/month for Company, including 1,000,000 requests and three team members.
Regions
Three AWS regions for running tasks: us-east-1 (US East, Virginia), us-west-2 (US West, Oregon) and…Joint 3rd highest of the 4 that document it. Highest: Amazon SQS — 34 commercial AWS Regions plus 2 AWS GovCloud (US) Regions listed in the SQS service endpoints table.
Maximum message size
3 MB per trigger payload (each batch item up to 3 MB on SDK 4.3.1+); task outputs up to 10 MB; payloads over…3rd highest of the 9 that document it. Highest: Inngest — 4 MiB per step-returned payload; 32 MiB total function run state; 10 MiB hard cap per event batch.
Concurrency
20 concurrent runs on the free plan, 50 on Hobby, and more on Pro at $10 a month per additional 502nd highest of the 3 that document it. Highest: Cloudflare Queues — 250 concurrent consumer invocations, push-based only, with per-queue throughput capped at 5,000 messages a…

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