Skip to content
inetGeek

Zeplo alternatives

Queues and background jobs · 9 alternatives · Zeplo iScore 67 (#7/10)

Every queues and background jobs provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Zeplo's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Zeplo'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. Trigger.devEntry paid plan: $10/month for Hobby, which includes $10 of credits; Pro is $50/month including $50 of cre…72#2/10
  3. Google Cloud Pub/SubPricing model: Three meters: throughput at $40 per TiB counting both publish and subscribe, storage at $…71#3/10
  4. Upstash QStashPricing model: Per message rather than per operation, metered against a daily ceiling on the free plan a…71#4/10
  5. Cloudflare QueuesPricing model: Billed per operation, not per message: one operation per 64 KB written, read or deleted,…70#5/10
  6. 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
  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 Zeplo stands against these 9

Zeplo'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
$39/month for Company, including 1,000,000 requests and three team members2nd cheapest of the 3 that document it. Cheapest: Trigger.dev — $10/month for Hobby, which includes $10 of credits; Pro is $50/month including $50 of credits.
Maximum message size
256 KB inline request body (unlimited via S3 offload); plan payload caps are 64 KB on Developer and 1 MB on…6th 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.
Maximum delay
30 days (2,592,000 seconds) maximum delay_seconds per request3rd highest of the 5 that document it. Highest: Temporal — Timers (durable sleeps) may run up to 100 years in Temporal Cloud.

No affiliate links, sponsored placements or paid rankings appear on this site. Ordering follows the sourced data and the stated criteria.

A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.

When these numbers change, hear about it. Sources are re-checked monthly; a repricing goes out as a short note.

Confirm by email; unsubscribe from any issue. Your address goes to Kit and nowhere else — what we do with it.

Every page here is sourced and dated.